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Some caricatures I did this past week (3 are "civilians", one is a celebrity), using Mirage. I recently got a Wacom 9x12 Intuos3 to replace my old Graphire4 4x6 and it has made the world of difference with my digital drawing: I've moved from a drawing area the size of a photograph to a drawing area the size of a typical sketchbook or large animation cel paper!

nice sketches Brett !

Yes, I too enjoy your drawing. I know what you mean about the bigger tablet. I am still totally in love with my Intuos 3.

Tom Hanks

I've never seen you draw anything even close to this. What a jump! How about letting us see what you do with a complete figure.

Paul Fierlinger wrote:I've never seen you draw anything even close to this. What a jump! How about letting us see what you do with a complete figure.

I've been taking some classes, including one on character design for animation. These pics are from a course in caricature. More stuff to come! I have some designs I am doing for some stop-motion puppets also.

Physically present in a class, or over the net?

Paul Fierlinger wrote:Physically present in a class, or over the net?

Online course, through http://www.schoolism.com

Canadian outfit. I'll be darn; so these things do work I guess. Thanks.

Paul Fierlinger wrote:Canadian outfit. I'll be darn; so these things do work I guess. Thanks.

It's a correspondence course -- you watch videos every week, submit artwork for an assignment, and then teacher records a video of himself critiquing your submission, going over it on a Wacom tablet. Pretty nifty, and better than just reading web pages (I did one course like that a while back, it was a waste of money, luckily not much). Comic artist Joe Kubert does something similar, except by traditional mail rather than over the net.

not Tom Hanks?

Tantalus wrote:not Tom Hanks?

Sorry I didn't reply earlier... yes it is Tom Hanks!

ah good! ...most important part of caricature... they should be recognizable

Tantalus wrote:ah good! ...most important part of caricature... they should be recognizable

Exactly! I still have a lot to learn but I am happy it was recognizable.

idragosani wrote:Some caricatures I did this past week (3 are "civilians", one is a celebrity), using Mirage. I recently got a Wacom 9x12 Intuos3 to replace my old Graphire4 4x6 and it has made the world of difference with my digital drawing: I've moved from a drawing area the size of a photograph to a drawing area the size of a typical sketchbook or large animation cel paper!

These are really nice sketches ! More please.