Bush's Brain

Liberal whipping boy Karl Rove, from Sunday talk show. Pencil 5x8

Thinking about Phelps

What an extraordinary talent, an Olympic champion, now shot to hell with drugs. What a waste.

Michael Phelps

Prepping for caricature of Phelps- looking for his feautures. Now he has this "I'm a rebel" beard going on.

Sketches 11-14

Customer Sketches- profiles

It was a busy service day and there was little time to sketch the customers. I mainly spent moments trying to visualize the skull underneath the features. The overcast sky and even light made it difficult, but I began to see the structure. Interesting.

Quick sketches 11-11

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Quick sketch- DC Sniper

Pencil, 4x6

Two random sketches

Two sketches from newspaper photos. Pencil- 4 x 6 inches each

bugs

A quick pencil sketch of Granddaughter Hali "Bugs" for her ninth birthday.

Pushing Pencil- 4 more

Getting approach and technique familiar for move into charcoal. Soft focus eye sockets, nose structure and mouth shape, then soft general shape of face and head, then details and tightening. Went too far to see what "too far" is. Customers, about two to three minutes each. pencil 4 x 6 in.

4x pencil sketches- musings

Four quick pencils, from photos in the paper and from life. I was thinking about nose shapes, how to deemphasize large noses and structure the shapes. I think I am almost to an understanding of rhino-structure, relationship to eyes and mouth structures and musculature in order to draw really outstanding caricatures.

Belushi sketch

pencil 4x6 inches