The beautiful and talented artist Marlo Meekins. Follow her blog here: http://marlomeekins.tumblr.com/
never-before-seen picture of me by fellow ginge Laura Kicey! @Helveticaneu
The beastly caricature is of Kristen McCabe.
Well, there’s a new French President now but I haven’t found the right image of him yet. Give him a little time, he’s a politician in the lime light, so he’ll do something funny soon enough. Meanwhile I was looking for an interesting profile to do and found this image of former French President Jacques Chirac. I liked the angles in is in his face in this profile pic so I really pushed the exaggeration on those angles here. These former French Presidents have great noses for caricatures. I had a hard time deciding what to do with the background because everything I tried was too busy and detracted from the subject. I thought about it for a while and then it came to me. French flags, but not waving anymore as they did when he was President, simply leaning against an old door as he passed. These French subjects are always great fun and the French people are always such good sports. I’m not sure about the outcome on this one yet but it was a fun exercise. I imageine my French friends will tell me. I only spent a few hours on this one as aposed to my usual 2 to 3 days. On to the next one.. Vive la France!
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Tonight I’m posting a caricatured manipulation I did as a tribute to Leslie Nielsen, which I intended to post the day he died, but Freaking News posted a Photoshop contest called “Remembering Leslie Nielsen” so I decided to enter it into the contest to see what it would do. It took silver so that wasn’t too bad. I love this image of Leslie Nielsen with this big eyes and that surprised look. I couldn’t resist doing it. I really concentrated on the eyes and completely re-made them to enhance that expression. He was good practice and a lot of fun to do. This is the image I started with:
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Today I’m posting a manipulated caricature of Vincent Price which was requested by one of my many friends at Google+. I wanted to work with a color image but just couldn’t find the right one. I decided to use the source image below and do a faded blue monochromatic image and just add color to the eyes. I saw one done similar of Keith Richards of the Stones by Sebastian Kruger. It’s amazing. Well, mine is certainly no Kruger and I’m not totally happy with the way it came out but it was an experiment, so I’ll take what I learned from it and move on to the next one. I’m thinking about Steven Tyler of Aerosmith next. I’ve got to do something with those lips before he gets too old.
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