Apr
16
>Napoleon Sarkozy
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Tonight I have a manipulated caricature of French President Nicolas Sarkozy as Napoleon Bonaparte in the famous painting by French Painter Jacques-Louis David, which was requested by a dear friend of mine from France. This one’s for you Sylvia! I tried to find a French poodle in keeping with the French theme but couldn’t find any good ones. I altered the painting just a bit as well as I did Sarkozy who made a great model. I had a lot of fun with the body and the puppy. I couldn’t resist the puppy epaulettes. I hope he likes it. Sorry I couldn’t do the First Lady Sylvia, she’s just too pretty. I’ve posted the source images below.
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Apr
13
>TENNIS Magazine ~ The Bryan Brothers
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This is the layout for the two page spread I did for TENNIS Magazine / Bauer Media featuring “the Bryan Brothers”. Never heard of them myself. I wasn’t sure if I was going to post this because I really don’t like it, but it’s what they wanted. The story was about how “the Bryan brothers” disliked playing doubles Tennis. They requested a very mild caricature and these guys have no personality anyhow by the look of those blank faces. This is just how it was delivered. Obviously there was other text, title… I don’t know. The job / concept was still in the air when I delivered it so I have no idea how it turned out. In fact, I had to send a layer PSD file so they could arrange it the way they wanted. It’s certainly not something I would put in a portfolio. Well, that business. There are often tight reins on your ability to inject any creativity into the project.
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Apr
11
>Featured Artist ~ Robin Eley
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I made a new Facebook friend today and discovered a brilliant artist named Robin Eley. I was totally amazed at this young man’s talent. I’m posting what little I was able find out about him personally, several of his incredible paintings as well as two step by step videos of his. I’m usually very careful not to post long videos or multiple videos as I know you guys have busy schedules, but you MUST take a few moments and watch these video demonstrations. I promise, you will be blown away! The first one is of the paining above and the second is a self portrait.
Robin Eley was born in London in 1978, migrating with his family to Australia at the age of 3. In 1997 he moved to California where he attended Westmont College, earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts and captaining the basketball team. In 2002 he returned to Australia where he now lives with his wife Rachel. If you are interested in getting to know more about Robin Eley, you can find him on , follow him on his and visit his Web Site. I will also provide a link to his web site at the botton of the post. Here are a couple of articles if you would like to read up on him a bit: “Robin Eley paints Tom Gleghorn for the Archibald Prize” and .
Please click on the images provided for the full view so you can see the incredible detail and delicacy of his work.
Sit back and enjoy a brilliant artist at work!
Only 2 more minutes…
Robin Eley’s Web Site
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Apr
08
>Jay-Z II
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Tonight I decided to do another manipulated caricature of Rapper Jay-Z. He has those famous lips and ears so I couldn’t resist. I’ve enjoyed doing this sort of mini series on Rappers. They have lots of character and pretty much anything goes as far as the background is concerned, although I had a little trouble deciding what to do with this one. I must have scrapped 10 versions. I’m still not sure about it but it’s done and I seldom revisit a manipulation. Once they’re done, it’s history. Time to move on and try and make something better. I’ve included the source images I used below as well as an interview with Jay-Z by David Letterman at the bottom of the post, so stick around for that.
Source images used:
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Apr
07
>Masthead Redesign and YouTube Video
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I got caught up in a bunch of random stuff today, so I didn’t get a caricature done but I did redo my masthead. Actually, an anonymous blog follower pointed out to me that the word “manipulation” was misspelled on the old masthead. I couldn’t believe I had done that and it’s been almost a year without someone noticing it. Well, it was due for a change anyhow. It was kind of old and drab. There’s a reason why I put a picture of what is clearly embedded at the top of my blog. When this post is shared, the top image is selected for the thumbnail that will display so don’t worry, you don’t have double vision.
I also posted a video below of a collection of my manipulated caricatures completed over a span of the last 6 months of 2010. Can’t wait for the 2011 retrospective version. It’s going to be a lot better. I have also been busy every day now for the last 2 weeks working on a new video for you. This one is going to be really clean. I’m creating it at 1024 x 768 pixels for high Definition and everything is aspect ratio correct with no cropped images showing blank space on either side. I did a lot of background recreating. I hope to have it done real soon but I’m really putting the fine detail work on this one so I don’t want to rush it. I’m going to be in need of some background music that is YouTube copyright proof. Anyone know of any good music, maybe in the Creative Commons category? Anyhow, relax and take a break from your busy schedule and take a look at 2010, my first ever caricatures.
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Apr
06
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Tonight I have a manipulated caricature of rapper 50 Cent. The guy gas brutal features, so there were a few different ways I could have taken this one. I came very close to scrapping this one. Nothing seemed to be going right, then I zoomed back to a small thumbnail and I saw what my problem was and was able to correct it. So there’s a lesson there. Don’t get caught up in the details in the early stages. Take a step back and look at the whole thing. There’s plenty of time for details in the end. Not to say this is a flawless caricature. It’s far from it and I learned a lot from this one so I’m sure I could do a much better job the second time around. Well, it is what it is. I’ve posted the original source images below for comparison. I kind of blended the two. There’s also a video of 50 Cent performing 21 Questions. It’s the only one that wasn’t X-rated. I try to keep it clean for this blog.
50 Cent performing 21 Questions
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