Pencil Tests

Friday, January 23, 2009

The beginning stages of something I'm hoping will be finished soon enough. It takes me so long to get this stuff done. I have to work on it more often.

P.S. Now that I've looked at them online, these are of an exceedingly crappy quality. That's OK though, because when the whole thing is done ill post it in color with a nice high resolution for everyone and it will look that much better. There's also an image of the first frame of the second test below the test itself, which blogger is deciding to put there for a reason unknown to me.

"It's Gene, Gene, The DANCING MACHINE!"

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Here's a picture I did with pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic, and gold leaf. Did you know the glue that one uses to apply gold leaf is called 'size'? Anyway, it's currently floating around Australia or the South Pacific somewhere, as I sent it to Jeremy quite a while ago and he still hasn't gotten it. It's Sam Rockwell playing Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Barris, screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, and directed by George Clooney. If you ever try to freeze frame the film you won't find this exact image because I took what I thought was Rockwell's most interesting pose from the scene and put it over The Gong Show's set. In the actual film he is doing this fist pump in front of a fairly non descript red curtain if I remember right. I wanted that glitter in there. Sorry for the crappy pics, I think you can see me in the glare. I really hope it gets to him OK eventually.

The Caldons

Monday, January 5, 2009

I'm missing a few of the kids photos that I used, but I tried to include the main photos I used as reference for the final. For each caricature I drew I used at least 5 photos as references. This one had a tight deadline and I had to pull a few all nighters, but all things considered I think it came out pretty well.

P.S. A prettier, nicer, and more sarcastic family, there could not be. If any Caldon checks this post and objects to having their pictures up, let me know and I'll take em down.