One-and-a-Half-Track Mind

[tealin]

I've been familiar with Britain's Chancellor by name since discovering Radio 4 almost a year ago, but I hadn't seen a picture of Gordon Brown until he appeared in a 'Day in Pictures' thing on the BBC News site. The man's a caricature! I hardly had to push anything at all! If I take actors and politicians as approximate visual representatives of the population as a whole, I'm starting to think I should move there just for the life drawing opportunities...

On the most recent run of The Now Show, they renamed David Blaine with the fabulous epithet 'Gitwizard' – I had been introduced to the term 'git' in reference to a different wizard, one who was due for another drawing attempt, so ... this happened. Hands = ARGH. Not just bad, they're twinningly bad!


Oh, you knew it had to happen eventually... I was listening to Copenhagen while working yesterday* and doodling the characters in the margins of my board, then drew these in the bus on the way home. Not perfect caricatures, especially since they were done from memory, but my best yet. Daniel Craig has a PBS head. ;) Francesca Annis looks a little too sinister but I think I got her pretty well for a first try(!), and Stephen Rea ... I changed which side his hair is parted on for the sake of facial clarity and probably need to push him more, but I've had the most experience drawing him. I LOVE THIS MOVIE/PLAY THING. HWAHH.

*As Rawrsie succinctly put it, it's a 'radio play with optional pictures,' though I usually take time out to watch the climactic 'thought experiment' and concerto for oboe and mushroom cloud at the end ... coo.

Comments

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

The second dude bears a striking resemblance to Gilderoy Lockhart. Was that intentional?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's him. The original Gitwizard.

[pyri-prongs.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHA! You drew Gordon Brown. That is terribly amusing. Have you seen John Prescott's face though? He looks like Umbridge's brother. Actually,
the whole pf the Houses of Parliament are filled with people with extreme facial structures.

[salamandersoup.livejournal.com]

I love the hair on the psuedo-Lockhart! And the mouth. AND the chin. The man practically oozes smarm. *gigglegiggleglandularproblems*

[rawrsie.livejournal.com]

it's not just good, it's good enough. =)Also, you'd think with all the uproar over stabbing violence they'd outlaw Gordon Browns profile.

[viqii.livejournal.com]

haha! i love Lockhart's expression......

nice drawings =)

kisses

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Excellent - especially the Gordon Brown one (and don't beat yourself up about the hands - they communicate!). I think you're right about England being the land of caricaturing opportunities (if all goes wrll, you could visit my little sister over there next year!). Maybe if I ever get my act together I will do some caricatures of some of the interesting faces I saw in Taiwan (I was blown away by the amazing diversity)...

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

Haha! Very good. The 2004 Private Eye anthology (bought for me by Richard) compares Gordon Brown to Shrek. Their noses, at least, are an accurate population representative.

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

...representation...