Happy 4th of July Blog

A lot of artists on their blogs have done their own little drawing of Michael Jackson in tribute to the entertainer's death. So yeah I'm a little late on the bandwagon...whatcha gonna do? Anyway, I've seen some really great ones. So great, in fact, that I'm not even going to try to compete with them and do something too involved. Instead, I chose a much simpler and quicker way to do my part. In this exercise, I wanted to capture MJ's likeness in the simplest way that I could, with as few lines as I could. It's really a great way to hone your skills at capturing people in caricature: if you can get a likeness with as few lines as possible, that means that you have successfully picked the correct fewest features to play up. Here is my attempt:



Note that there is even an absence of the hair and facial contour--I've relied strictly on his striking internal features. Not that Michael is that hard to do in the first place. This took about 40 seconds to lay it down the rough, then I spent another few minutes refining the lines and cleaning it up.


Emo Kid Is My Bank Teller


There's this young dude at my bank who I often get as the teller when I'm standing in line there. He's been around a couple years, but in the time I've seen him, he went from a normal looking guy to an Emo kid. And I"m NOT a big fan of Emos. It's strange to see a guy in a suit with swoopie dyed black hair and black fingernails handling my money.



Camel Toe

Ah, Maria Sharapova cannot escape the toe.