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Wow, speaking of being creative. Have you guys seen this animation/street art? Bad ass.



I'm putting a link to this artist's site on the right side.

A small Jerry Macguire moment.

I Just spent hours reading posts about Emily the Strange character being ripped off from a character from a children's book. Read about it here...
Rosamund the strange

and an even worse accused offender... Todd Goldman.

To me, this is serious. I highly value originality. I struggle with it myself and sometimes I don't produce anything because I don't want to be derivative. So I look down upon artist who "borrow" from others who have suffered to spark the fire of a good idea. Reading about this issue has inspired me to from now on strive to create truly original art. I only want to use photos to study, but not copy and If one of my ideas is similar too to someone else's, then I won't use that idea.

No more using single photo references for caricatures either. I believe this will only improve my creativity and add a new dimension to my caricatures. Static samples derived from single photo is so boring anyway.

So you shouldn't see more of those samples like the ones below. Caricatures from photographs will only be done for customer commissioned pieces, and even then I will add my own twist as to not make it a copy of a photo.

Perhaps this concept will even creep into other sphere of my life. Hopefully it will.

Old Tattoos.

My wisdom tooth is hurting like hell, so since I can't sleep I found some old drawings from 2002.

For a while I wanted to do tattoos, so I tried my hand at some tattoo flash.

3 Airbrush styles

I started in 2002 at Magic Mountain working with Fasen Arts. Fasen is known for bringing the graphite and airbrush style to retail caricatures. Airbrush is a great way of getting highly rendered caricatures in a speedy and versatile way. There are many different ways to use an airbrush so you can get a variety in styles. Recently I did a 3 different caricatures in 3 styles.

Dog- A more cartoony style ala Tom Richmond, but of course, not as skilled.



Jean Paul Belmondo - This one is a more rendered style. A little less graphite, a little more paint.



Joe Rogan - This one is definately more portraity. Almost not an caricature, but a crappy portrait haha, but still a variety of style possible with an airbrush.

Dr. Sketchy's

My friend Adrian and I went to Dr. Sketchy's L.A. and despite one of the models fainting, it was a constructive night of drawing. I was trying to exaggerate a bit so some of them have a bit of cartoony proportions.

Beyonce

I've been trying to draw more lately and trying to get some better celebrity samples for my collection. So to start off with, here's Beyonce.

Julia and David 1

I'm doing a piece for a friend of ours. This is just a sketch to prime up the creative juices pump. Done in graphite on paper. I need to work on a few more versions, as I was not satisfied with David's likeness.

Johnny Depp ... sort of

Ok. I've trying out watercolours and so far it's hit or miss, mostly miss. Here's my lame attempt at Johnny Depp.

Michael Jackson