Celebrity caricatures

A caricature is an art of creating an exaggerated or distorted portrait of a person or a thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. A lot of

The National Cartoonists Society, of which I am a longtime member and a past president, just released a fun kid’s activity book as part of their “Cartooning for Kids” program. Originally this was going to be a printed book that the NCS would have available for schools, kids organization and for our children’s hospital visits, but the coronavirus scuttled all that. Instead, the NCS has made it available as a PDF that anyone can download and print out (although they will eventually have a…

Sam Elliott #caricature

Various caricatures that i have drawn and painted over the past few years that were either commissioned by a client or used for self promotional purposes. a few were done just for fun

#Pamela #Anderson#Caricature

Digital caricatures of famous personalities, rendered in Photoshop.

b / w caricatures gallery

Now that the craziness that was the CLAPTRAP crowdfunding campaign is done, I’m finally able to devote some real time to the drawing board. I’ve of course been at work on CLAPTRAP, but I’ve also been slowly chipping away at a huge list of NYCC “Virtual Artist’s Alley” commissions from last month. Here’s a smattering of some of the “live style” caricatures I have done. Some of the people in these are the folks who commissioned the drawings and asked to be drawn as characters with the favorite…

A group shot of royal puppets from Spitting Image England's bizarre satirical puppet show Spitting Image ran for an astonishing 132 episodes on ITV from 1984-1996. With its extremely topical parodies of politics and show business, the program was something like our Saturday Night Live... only with a much nastier edge and with all the celebrity parts being played by foam and latex doppelgangers of the rich and famous. These three-dimensional, often unflattering caricatures became the show's…