Star Wars Caricature

Now that I spend a lot of my daytime hours working on environments, I've taken to working on my figure work in the evenings to keep things interesting. I watched some tutorials and sketched a whole bunch of naked people. With a growing stack of life drawings gathering dust in a wardrobe I wanted to start applying the learning to create some new things.

I developed an interest in caricature when I met Gil Rimmer. He was working for the same company at the time, albeit on a different show. I really liked the clear, bold statements he made with his art and I became curious to try out caricature for myself.

My first attempt came with Secret Santa at work. From the hat, I pulled the name of a production coordinator who is a huge star wars fanboy. So for his present he got this painting, along with the note: "For Deacon. In the Cantina or the bedroom, he always fires first".

It was created super fast and is far from perfect. I was happy with my first attempt and I really enjoyed doing it which made me want to keep going and create some more...

You can see Gil Rimmer's impressive animation portfolio here.

If you want to work on your own figure work, the tutorials I have been watching are available for free on proko.com. Stan Prokopenko does a fantastic job of simplifying the process; explaining the thinking behind the learning and keeping a great sense of humour throughout. I highly recommend his videos, and watching them in the order that he suggests here.

"Nerd boy likes his booky-wook"

Just another small update. Scanned a silly little drawing out of my sketchbook and had a crack at rendering him up. Heaps of fun again :) Hope you think so too. Would like to do this with more of my scribbles :)

Life drawing at Vincents

I've been making it along to Vincents again recently. It's always frustrating when you havn't been for a while, but I've managed to brush the cobwebs off and had an ok night last night. Here are the drawings from the night. They begin with 2 minute poses and progress to 20 minutes for the portrait. Each age is A3.