Crowder

In honor of Crowder's new cd "Neon Steeple", I was inspired to revisit my stylized portrait approach. I think I labored over it a bit more than I would have liked but overall I think it turned out how I wanted.  Hope you enjoy!

Ezra

Looking at pictures of Ezra Pound I was inspired to capture his likeness. Since he is credited as being a very important poet in the modernist movement, I wanted to include a "book" element in the piece. The three pages in the book reference the three very different times in his life.

Bowler Hat Man

This is an exercise that I learned from Stephen Silver. I started off with a realistic version of this guy. Then I tried using different shapes for his head but still capturing his likeness. I liked how they turned out so I thought I would throw them up for you to look at.

Brutha Joe

Another one for you guys. This is a still from a short movie taken at Point Dume in Malibu with my Brother-in-law Joe. I added a little color since his glasses really made the image for me. Next week should be Bad Habits # 2......should be...

Escobar

I had a lot of fun with Rockenbach that I thought I would throw another one up. I tried to do a slightly more caricature than straight on portrait this time. I took this picture of another of my friends, Luis Escobar. (check out his blog @ luisescobarblog). I really liked how his hair and beard really encompassed his face. Till next time...

Rockenbach!!!

Since I wasn't able to post last week I wanted to make sure to post twice this week. I am trying to learn more about character design and strengthen my knowledge of the human head. I thought I would try a portrait out. This is of my very good friend John Achenbach. I snapped this picture of him while we were working on the Simpsons Movie. I choose this picture since he was making a funny face, I figured why not really challenge myself and see how close I could get. Hope you guys like it and thanks for the comments and for checking back for the new posts!