Pon Pon Pon

Here's a drawing of J-pop singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu from the music video for her song "Ponponpon." I should hate it, but I don't. In case you think this is a reflection of Japanese culture, be relieved that it isn't. When my friend from Japan saw this she said that she was embarrassed for the entire nation of Japan. 

This was done with mostly gouache with some color pencil and sharpie. 

Preliminary drawings below. 

I really wanted the finished drawing to look more like these caricature above, but i didn't work out that way unfortunately. It's hard to paint faces like these on a smaller scale. 

Work, School, bleh

Haven't had a lot of doodling time lately. Hope that will change in a couple of weeks. 

I've been working a lot, almost 40 hour weeks. I work at a children's museum and I see this (below) a lot.  

I've also been slowly doing digital painting in place of traditional. So you'll be seeing more and more digital work in the future.

Some Stuff

Well, my cat knocked by tablet pen off the table into a cup of water I had laying on the ground. Not very pleased, and now it's going to be strictly hand-made work for the next couple of weeks. It's criminal that Wacom pens are $45 at least!

My friend owns a hat that makes me think of soap-suds. 

Caricature of a kid I saw at the children's museum.

Got a nasty pimple on my head... with no head. 

Thinking about developing this one above further.

Brenan & Friends!

Caricature of my friend Brenan. Flattering, no?

It's a snail... It's a hotdog... No, wait. It's BOTH!

Sakura-con nerd II

Bussums II

More sketches of people on the bus.

Karel

My friend Karel (a.k.a. Charlie) from Iceland asked me to make a caricature of him. 

This is the final one (above) done completely in gouache.

This was the first attempt, it made all my friends laugh (very important) but I didn't think I got the likeness just right. This also had a variety of media, it was markers, watercolor, ink, color pencil, and a teensy-weensy bit of white acrylic. 

(the man himself)

Pikachu?

I went to Sakura-Con 2011, a big anime festival. The Seattle convention center has an enormous lobby that doesn't have any exibits so a friend and I were able to look around without actually having to pay.

I'll have more drawings of the people I saw posted later. 

Flerpity-Derp

Bussums

The people of the King County Metro are bee-u-tiful!

Asian Guy

He looks just like this too.

Fresh Doodles

 Some lady with big eyes and i accidentally drew in a mysterious ghost-guzunga.

 Someone in my class doesn't sit on a desk, he takes off his shoes and sits on a counter, what a rebel.

Kids on the bus; I really want that kids hat it was cool.

Watercolour

I know I'm not British, but watercolour with a 'u' in it looks cooler.

MARKERS!

I bought some fancy Prismacolor markers and I am having one heck of a good time!

This is what I look like without my glasses, I wear that hat a lot. 

Here's a fancy lady, I think she might have had one too many martini's.

Anthropology Notes

(above & below) The Professor, Jerome O'Neal

Adams Vs. Glass

Sorry that nothing has been posted in a while. I've been house sitting, so I had no scanner for a couple of weeks. As a result many of drawings have been built up which would have otherwise been posted. Let's fix that...

Lately, my musical tastes have been focusing on minimalist and post-minimalist. It's been growing since I've been listening to John Adams (below).

For a long time my appreciation for minimalist music has been ruined by one man: Philip Glass (below). For some reason Glass has been the poster-boy for minimalist music. It must be that his music best embodies what minimalism is. Where as Adams, typically referred to as a post-minimalist, is what a typical audience would like minimalism to be; I am that audience member. I like Adams work because it's far more inviting. He gives you a space and allows you to explore it. Glass on the other hand I find to be a bit harsher, it's also ugly sounding (his later work is better). 

Other composers that has been peaking my interest is Steven Reich and Arvo Part.

Also, I heard someone say that Fox News uses a blue background for someone they want you to like and red for the ones they want you to disagree with. Weird considering red = Republican and blue = Democrat. Anyway, the idea behind it was interesting so I used it; Papermate - fair & balanced. 

In the above image towards the left, notice how Glass' nostrils have been played with, the upside down ones are the most bizarre. 

more to come.

Old School Caricatures!

Good caricature is hard to come-by these days, like with much of art it seems the pinnacle of the medium happened before the 20th century. Whilst waiting for my next class in the library I decided to go through the selection there (my school library has a great selection on art) and there they had "Master's of Caricature." In it was a long list of great caricature artists of a bygone era. I wrote a list of all my favorites.

Honoré Daumier (February 26, 1808 – February 10, 1879)

This one below is BEAUTIFUL!

This one below isn't a caricature, but it's still awesome!

Daumier also made amazing sculptures!

Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800-1869)

Masterpiece. It's a shame I can't find anything else this good, and when I do it's thumbnail size only.

Louis-Léopold Boilly (5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845)

Boilly has been one of my favorites for quite some time, a lot of his caricatures come from a book that was very popular at the time called "Les Grimaces."

Not only was Boilly a wonderful caricaturist but he was a master painter.

Georges Goursat (1863-1934)

Sidney Sime (1867 – May 22, 1941)

Was mostly known for being a fantasy artist, but on the side he did killer caricature! Sadly there isn't very much available online and the ones available are not very big or substandard quality.

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (August 24, 1872 – May 20, 1956)

This below was found on Christies website, it sold for $2,344. Jeeze! I sure hope the look at it.

Jean Veber (1868-1928)

Not a fan of most of his stuff, but I did love this. Haw! 

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901)

The lines in this one are beautiful, Art Nouveau was highly influenced by Eastern Art, maybe Lautrec was looking at Chinese brush paintings?

Man, the use of tinted paper is lovely, makes me want to do it!

Henry (Harry) Furniss (March 26, 1854 - January 14, 1925)

Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926)

That's right, the king of impressionism started off making caricatures as a schoolboy and actually sold off a couple. Who would of thought a guy who painted water-lilies all day had a great sense of humor?

Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956)

This gentleman was mentioned in the book I couldn't find very much in terms of caricature, but I did find all these AMAZING paintings! It was too good not to share.