This past Februraruruary, I attended a National Caricature Network (NCN) caricature mini-convention in Ohio. http://caricature.org/ It was a gathering of about 80 caricaturists from around the country to have an absolute blast drawing each other and having a grand time. It was so much fun. I got a chance to meet (and draw) some amazing artists that I've been fans of and who have been inspirational to me. I've learned a lot from looking at their art from afar/on the net and it's helped me, this being my 1st year being as a live caricature artist.
The style I use here is my more "me" style as opposed to my park/live sketch.
<--that's Jeremy and one of my favorite caricatures I've done. I put his face in his lips, heh.
That's Joe Bluhm and his work is awesome. check it out!http://joebluhm.blogspot.com/. I spelled out J-O-E in his face.
^ the ice/rock face/yellow background is of Aaron Philby, who I'm a huge fan of, check out his work! now!http://www.aaronphilby.blogspot.com/
The last one is Brian Oakes, another of my very
favoritist caricaturists! check out his stuff! It's awesome-riffic!!!
I tried something with his caricature, it's franken-Oakes, heh. His face is made up of other caricature artists, see below. I think I lost likeness with the overall of Brian as things got a bit busy...but I liked the idea behind it. I'll have to do a solo caricature of Brian sometime to do the likeness more justice. oh and the black is the suppose to be the squid ink from the "zitman squid/hair" heh.
from top left: it's Gabe Hunt and Matt Zitman as the hair, Sam Gorrie as the left side cheek, Brad Bailey as the nose, Beau Hufford as the right side cheek/also Sam's buttocks, George as more face, Joe Bluhm as the mouth, and Stacy Pierce as the chinny chin.
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3 comments:
Hey man! Awesome work as always! Your style is similar to Picasso (in that it takes forms of a person and accentuates or changes, but still remains the person), except with a more cartoony feel to it. I never really understood why his work is so popular, but see your work progress into what it is kind of explains a little. You got mad skills.
cant believe i missed the calaberation of Brian, thats really cool, hope to see more crazyness like that, im impressed. Goin to the con?
josh- thanks, man! yeah, I definitely want to keep pushing it more into the picasso realm, but not too much :)
nate- thanks, dude! nope, no con for me this year :( but next year I plan on going. have fun jacking people up!
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