Trying a new medium

Most of the caricatures that I do are made with black markers and art stix (colored pencil). I've played around with using various gray markers for shading black and white drawings, and once I tried using watercolor paints. I enjoy trying out different materials, and one of the fringe benefits to being an art teacher is that I have access to a room full of art supplies. Here are a few recent sketches that I did with on gray paper using black and white charcoal. I enjoyed the way that it let me quickly build a wide range of values, and blend shadows by smudging with my finger. Doing it this way makes me curious about using hard chalk pastels to make some caricatures in color. Hmmm......

View Askew

Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson, Clerks)

Lance Dowds (Jason Lee, Clerks II)

Jay, circa Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Jason Mewes)

Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran, Clerks II)

Kevin Smith is easily my favorite film director. I've loved his style of storytelling and the characters that he creates since I was a teenager. Here are a couple of drawings I did of a few View Askew-niverse regulars.

Sketching Comedy

Louis CK

Bill Hicks

Dave Attell

Doug Stanhope

George Carlin

Louis Black

I love stand up comedy. I will routinely pull up a comedian that I like on Pandora, and listen to that while I am drawing. I was doing this the other day while I was looking for someone to draw pictures of, and I figured, "why not draw the comics?". So I did a quick black and white caricature of each comedian that popped up on Pandora. They were done with Prismacolor markers, and averaged 6 minutes each.