"Oh, my Bic!"

A few sketches from last night at the coffee shop.  The lady was the author of some book that was on the table.

I havent drawn with a ballpoint pen in a while, it felt really good.  I missed the soft lines you can get.

ROY ORBISON

......or 'The Big O' as he was otherwise known in his day........

WOLVERINE

SAMUEL BECKETT

Here's another famous birthday that was celebrated recently. The Irish writer and poet, Samuel Beckett.

Fun stuff today

This is "Beau's kind of girl"

Here's a quick drawing I did of Jeremy while he went to lunch.

Post Beast Head Day

Not to sound like all I'm doing now is extreme exaggeration, but I do taste a Beast-y resedue in my sketches the past few days.

PETE DOHERTY

DAVE GAHAN

Been a fan of Depeche Mode for years, ever since the days when writing your favorite band on your schoolbag was a cool thing to do.
They've a new album out this week which will be added to my collection before long..........

'El Niño' (work in progress)

The season is drawing to a close and Liverpool are the closest they've been to winning the League in 19 painful years.
Torres is on fire at the moment and if he keeps scoring the way he is right now, we're definitely in with a good shout!! This being 'quietly confident' lark is hard work!!

WATCHMEN

I rarely do these types of drawings anymore as I don't really feel that copying directly from a photo or movie still does much to improve my drawing skills.
I still enjoy doing them nonetheless. This is based on a still taken from the 'Watchmen' movie. I've not seen it yet but I read the novel way back when I was a comic book nerd.
This one took about an hour in Photoshop.

WEDDING INVITE

Here's another wedding invitation recently completed.

Beast Head Day Pics!!!!!!!!!!

For now, you can hop over to beastheads.blogspot.com

GEORGE COSTANZA

Thought I'd continue the Seinfeld theme and draw his close friend and accomplice, George. He's neurotic, self-loathing, insincere, insecure, dishonest and a coward with no redeeming qualities......maybe that's why I like him so much!!

International BEAST HEAD Day!

Caricature artists, its time for a FEAST,
we are asking you all to bring out your BEAST!

On this Monday, April the 13th,
draw their big gums, his big nose, her big teeth.

Its a day to expand, to try something new,
let their unique face tell you what to do.

Don't be afraid to draw what you see,
"JACK SOME FACES!", says Nate Kapnicky.

Go Crazy, exaggerate, stretch and destroy,
ANNIALATE that sweet little boy.

Just say to the customer "Its all in good fun",
dont forget to take pics so we can see what you've done!

Guess who I met?

One of my favorite people in the world!! "WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC!!!!! My whole life I've been a fan of his, and there he was. just walkin around Sea World with his wife and kid. I literally ran over, like a teenage girl, to get a picture with him. Once I did, I offered to draw his daughter, and they were into it. He actually videotaped me doing the sketch which was also very cool.

So, Al, if you read this, and you still cant get Kruger to do that album cover, you know who to call.wink wink

Who's that guy?

Something that we do at work which is really fun to do is draw yourself or one of the other artists in your sketch. Here are a couple examples...


Heres me getting blasted in the face with a volleyball!




Heres Andy totally about to tap out! Me, Nate and Beau are in the background.

Fun With Bodies

Its always a fun challenge when customers want their background to be something that you've never drawn before and you know you'll enjoy doing it...




...and then there are the ones that you've drawn a million times but you still find a way to make it different so it feels original. Like thinking about all the different ways you can draw somebody sitting on that Shamu,or whatever...



...but the best is when you dont have to think too hard to come up with a funny idea!

JERRY SEINFELD

This guy is one of my absolute heroes.
For eight years and 175 episodes, he co-wrote and starred in what must be still to this day, one of the best and funniest sit-coms of all time. That would be 'Seinfeld' of course.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Quick sketch of the by no means unattractive Hollywood actress.

Update: 4/4/09

ALAN SHEARER

He's either been offered a phenomonal amount of money or he's run out of bland comments as a pundit on 'Match of the Day', but Alan Shearer has shocked us all by taking the manager's job at Newcastle FC. He's such a legend up there which makes his decision even more baffling. If he fails to keep The Magpies in the Premiership, he's placing that legendary status in jeopardy, all for the sake of romanticism.
Personally, I don't think he's gonna pull it off. Newcastle are in freefall at the moment and the only hope they have is if the teams around them start playing even worse than they have been up to now.........yeah right.