Caricatures

Sometimes it's beneficial to attempt a caricature from memory, thereby getting a more accurate impression of the character rather than relying on specific details. I was resuming my long-abandoned attempt to caricature Billy Boyd as Pippin for a friend's Christmas present (I'm pretty sure she doesn't read this blog so I think I'm safe in saying that) and noticed he has roughly the same eye shape as Lee Ingleby, so I doodled this little Hollom on the way home from my sister's. A distance of a year or more from the last time I watched Master & Commnader (?!!?!!!?!???) seems to have benefited me in this regard ... unfortunately it did Warley no good. Sigh. If you want to see my sketches of Pippin from the screen, click here ... amazing how something drawn right off the screen can look absolutely nothing like him. And yes, I tried not looking at reference. It was worse. Yeah, I know I haven't been posting much art lately. I could say it's because I'm working on Christmas stuff or busy with work but really I'm just a lazy bum. Somebody get the cattle prod.