Caricature Express

Watching movies again. This time it was Charlie’s Angels.
I drew the Angels quickly - almost as though I was at a party.

That’s okay. People like to look ‘normal’. Um. But. I’m
a Caricature Artist! We exaggerate. We want to really see what’s
unique about each face.

So I gave a litl more time to each face. Just a little. With a predraw.
I did a 2nd one of Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore. But I was stumped
Cameron Diaz. Slept on it. Still could not figure out what to do for
Cameron. Finished a bit of housework, and decided to get back to
the pictures. And, Eureka! I knew just what to do for Cameron!
Drew it out easily.

But then I was no longer satisfied with Drew Barrymore’s exaggerated
Caricature. She’s So unique. Got to get it. Got to get it.
I scribbled. I changed things. I tried to remember my vision.
And, Yes! Her 3rd Caricature is It!

So that’s it. That’s what makes one picture
a very nice picture. And what makes another one
Magnificent ArtWork.

It’s hard enough to make it happen in the short time I take with
each picture at a Party. It’s almost impossible with guests who
tell me not to draw their unique feature. It’s almost impossible
with guests who try to hide what they look like (like a person
with a huge set of teeth who clamps her mouth Shut so I won’t
be able to draw it. Or a person who carefully pulls her hair over
her pointy ears. etc.) But for those times when it can flow
right out, That’s Fun! To see what I can make!

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Watching movies again.
This time it was
Casa Blanca!

Wow. If I ever wondered if anybody ever had any new
ideas, these days, I wouldn’t wonder anymore. I just
watched the movie ‘Broken Flowers’ with Bill Murray,
and I was amazed. This story sure is a new idea
to me.

It’s the middle of the night. I really wanted to get
myself onto a better schedule - to get plenty of
sleep and still wake early, but it’s not going to
happen again. Bcause I just had to draw some
pink flowers for Bill Murray. That last scene was
so amazing:

The surprise of middle-age. Not only this
protagonist’s problem, but whatever frustration or
shock might hit a person - where do they go from
there?

This movie’s been around since 2005. but I just got
around to seeing it. Does anyone know of any sort
of a sequel to the philosophy of Broken Flowers?

I like creative-writing. Maybe I’ll attempt some ideas
some day. But for now, just this picture.

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Not a job. But just for practice, I decided to draw Bill O’Reilly Hula-Dancing.
Because I saw him on tv, and I was real impressed with his graceful hands.
And I could imagine him hula’ing ’still waters’ for ‘take it easy, now….’

I worked in Colored Pencil on Toned Paper.
Also changed the background to White in PhotoShop.
It’s most interesting, how I did not change any of the Colors on the 2 copies - It’s most interesting that the shirt looks so much duller on the white background:

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I recently made some more drawings for the East Coast Brown Derby
Restaurant. Some of their requests are more famous than others.
In this batch, I recognized Dom DeLouise.

They like the Caricatures to be rather tame - more like the old-style
Caricatures. So this is what I drew - along with the Reference Photos
that they provided for me:

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