Jan
27
I had a little fun today with this caricature study of Billy Joel. My work has taken on a totally different look since I started drawing again. It really helps to get a good sketch developed and work on top of that. Why not just paint it you may ask? I am getting back to the basics by sketching and I am teaching myself digital painting so you will see some of that in the near future. Meanwhile there are a lot of people who still like the photo-manipulated caricatures so we’ll see. I never plan these things. I just go with my instincts and most importantly, I do what I enjoy.
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Jan
26
Barack Obama Caricature Study
This is a quick caricature study I did today of Barack Obama. I didn’t quite get the look I was aiming for so I’m calling this finished and moving on to a new project. Obama is always fun though and they’re all good practice.
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Jan
25
Google+ Portrait Commission
This is my latest Google+ portrait commission. This is a low resolution profile pic which was commissioned as a gift. Get yours for a limited time for only 50 bucks. Email me at .
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Jan
22
The Rodney Pike Project 2014
On a whim two years ago, Gigi Fotieo, the founder of the Digital Media Academy at Lake Nona High in Orlando, Florida decided to email me and tell me how she is inspired by my work and my story. She told me about the “Rodney Pike Project” she does with her Digital Media Academy students. The first part of the project involves the students studying my work in order to grasp an understanding of what makes my caricatures interesting. The second part involves researching different techniques and tools within Photoshop that can be used to do these manipulations. The final part of the project is to put that research to the test and use Photoshop to manipulate a celebrity portrait in the “Rodney Pike” style. I showcased her students’ work on my websites last year so that my 2.4 million plus followers on Google+ could see Lake Nona High School Digital Media Academy students’ work. For the second straight year, Gigi, her students and I are excited to Showcase the winner of the “Rodney Pike Project” 2014, judged by me. I’m a huge supporter of the arts for our youth and am privileged to share this among my social network.
Gigi Fotieo has been teaching for 19 years with Orange County Public Schools in Orlando, Florida and is the program coordinator and instructor for Lake Nona High School’s Digital Media Academy. She founded the Digital Media Academy at Lake Nona High in 2011. Students in the academy can earn Adobe Industry Certification in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign, Illustrator and Premiere Pro. Not fulfilled by a career as an accountant right out of college, she decided to pursue a much more fulfilling career as a high school Career and Tech Ed teacher. She earned her National Board Certification in Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood/Career and Technical Education and is a Certified Adobe Education Trainer. You can learn more about the academy at teacherpress.ocps.net/LNHSDMA.
Congratulations Jasmin Quinones!
Below are a few words from Jasmin and more samples of her awesome Photoshop work.
My name is Jasmin Quinones and I am a 16 year old junior at Lake Nona High School in Orlando, Florida. My interest in Photoshop began in my sophomore year when I took Digital Media 1. I haven’t worked with Photoshop long, but it has definitely become something I love. I think it is awesome to be able to take a photo and change it or to create something from scratch on the computer. There is so much to do with Photoshop and I’m excited to learn more.
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Jan
15
Marty D’Arcy – A Google+ Portrait Commission
This is my latest portrait commission from fellow Google+ member Marty D’Arcy who is a retired airline stewardess from National Airlines. Images with a hand on the face like this are always challenging because the exaggeration and distortion in the face transfers to the hand as well. This one required quite a bit of digital painting to achieve this. Below are two images. One is the source image provided at a reduced size as well as a one to one crop of that original source image provided for the caricature. I’m posting this to illustrate the lack of detail and poor quality of the source image and the amount of repair / touch-up work needed as well as the amount of painting I had to do.
Close-up of Source Image
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Jan
02
Tonight I have a quick caricature study of James Earl Jones. I’ve been trying to get back to the basics recently as my work was really feeling stale so I’m back behind the sketch pad and doing some digital painting. This is sort of a combination of the two. I first sketched the subject here, then overlaid the skin and went back and painted on top of the combination. I’m practicing a lot with digital drawing and painting now, so you’ll see lots more traditional work in 2014.
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Jan
01
Happy New Year 2014 From Mr Bean
Well, the year is almost over. It’s been a fun and busy 2013 and i’m expecting 2014 to be even better. This is my yearly New Year Br. Bean manipulation using a source image of a Saturday Evening Post cover by one of my favorite American Illustrators Joseph Christian Leyendecker. Happy new Year everyone!!
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Dec
13
This is a morphing video I started working on two years ago and never finished. The project was put together with Abrosoft FantaMorph. It features some of my photo manipulations and caricatures cropped for the face morphing most of which were completed prior to 2012. I hope you enjoy!
Musical Credit: The background music is called “Lil Indigo” by Rock Grooves Volume-13.
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Dec
04
Norman Jaillet – Caricature Portrait Commission
This is my latest caricature portrait commission of Google+ and facebook acquaintance, . Norman is an amature photographer. The original source image was taken on a recent trip to Singapore.
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Nov
25
Lou Reed – Perfect Day
A little late on delivering this after Lou Reed’s passing, but it is a tribute, nonetheless.
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