Evening Caricature Challenge Part 1

The last week or so Anna and I have been doing caricature challenges where we post a number of pictures of an actor on our living room television screen, and then take 20 minutes to capture the person’s likeness. 
Here are a few from the last couple of nights (I’ve omitted the really bad ones)-

           

Alan Ruck                                   Benicio Del Toro                                    Wanda Sykes

Minnie Driver                                    Rachel Dratch (from SNL)

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I’m definitely going to have to add color to that Benicio Del Toro caricature.  I quite like how that turned out.

Walking the Dog

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This is an idea that I've had floating around in my head for quite a while now.  It has gone through a number of incarnations in the last half of a decade.  I drew out the first version clear back in 2006 and started coloring it in Flash before I realized that it looked like crap.

And here is that crappy version from clear back in 2006 - 

Painful!

Lady Caricatures

Lately I've been working on capturing the likenesses of women.  Typically I'm pretty dreadful at drawing women.  Women are difficult!  It's a balance between drawing enough lines to make the woman recognizable, but not enough to make them look old and wrinkled.  Here are a few that I added color to:

                                         Amy Poehler                                              Drew Barrymore

                                   Emma Thompson                                        Maggie Gyllenhaal

Helena Bonham Carter

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The Vault: Bill Murray

A faux cut-out caricature of one of my all time favorite comedians -  Bill Murray.  

Rushmore heralded the beginning of my love for quirky independent comedies, and Bill Murray was amazing in the film. 

Even though this was one of my first faux cut-out illustrations it's still one of my favorites.

The Vault: Pazuzu

Another one from the vault. 

Professor Farnsworth riding his gargoyle Pazuzu.  Sort of an obscure character, but one of my favorites.

Can you spot the 80s movie reference?

Tilt Shift Photography

I've always been a bit amazed with tilt shift photography ever since I first saw it in a few years ago.  I have a small collection of my own photos that I've done the effect on that I've always just had sitting on my computer.  I figure now that I'll post a few of them online.  Hopefully you enjoy them.

A view from my hotel room of a poolside cabana in Manta Ecuador back in 2006.

A pool and fountain at the Auckland wintergarten.

The Maid of the Mist tour boat at Niagara Falls.  This one is my personal favorite, because this is really how it feels to ride this boat to the base of the falls.  You fill tiny compared to the falls.

A small stream near the base of Mt. Raupehu in New Zealand.

The Vault: Moss

Moss (played by Richard Ayoade) from the British sitcom The I.T. Crowd.

One of my all time favorite TV nerds. The actors from Big Bang Theory have nothing on this guy.