Happy New Year 2013

I would like to wish all my readers a Happy New Year for 2013. I am hoping it is going to be a lot better than 2012, as this has not been a very good year for me , but at least I survived it. I follow a blog site by a very good caricature artist called Steve Hearn (Pencil Dreams) and he had a cracking picture of his brothers new dog. I thought I would have a go at caricaturing him? I am useless with animals but you have to keep trying to get better. This is pretty much my philosophy with human heads, although my improvement is quite slow going.

A few practice heads from various sketch books. A couple are something to do with friends and family as I have a lot of photos to refer to. I generally never show these sketches as know one else in my family has a love of my caricaturing efforts.

 

 I watched a program on the telly about celebrity worst moments and heard about a roofer tweeting various celebs a naked picture of himself to get a response. As the motto goes perseverance pays off and he got Melanie Sykes (one of the most beautiful women in the world) to tweet back and is now getting married to her!

 So I thought about doing a similar idea on my blog. I am married, so not after anything, but thought I would share with you all (A New Years Treat) what 50 years of manly abuse can do for you. Unfortunately the face is a caricature but the body is quite close to real, only I am a bit hairier and yes I think I have Hobbit Feet.

Hope, Prosperity and Good Will to all.

Christmas 2012

Merry Christmas to one and all, I hope everyone who has looked in, has the best Crimbo ever.

Kind Regards.

Got a New Job

I have been doodling while waiting for a new job, which thankfully I have now started. These are just quick sketches in one of my many sketch books done with a marker and a small block of cheap kids paints from Sainsbury's. The water colour paint just quickly brighten the drawing up and give a bit of depth. The lady with the straw is Amanda Nikki a fantastic Caricature artist who works in Las Vegas at the top of the Stratosphere, so if you are ever in Vegas, pop in and have one done. I have never met her, but one day I hope to get to the NCN convention and meet them all?

 I have been busy sketching all the Celebrities on "I'm a Celebrity get me out of here" and they have put them in frames around the studio set as each of them get interviewed. I had done a few cruel ones of the 2 male presenters on the ITV2 program which they have made reference to and showed one of Rob Beckett as a cockroach?

 I haven't included them all as there are about 20 odd but I Photoshop'd the sketches and put them on a back drop of jungle, but don't know if they will use this? I have done the ITV2 lot as well.

well Christmas is coming and I must think of a fitting post to end this year. Regards Fatboy.