August 1, 2009

Caricatures and a hare

I've been sketching celebrities and people I see on the street to work on capturing a likeness. I tend to put the same face on all my girls and I want to expand my visual vocabulary. Also... there's a hare.

Can you guess all the celebrities?



















As an artist, people often ask you which of all the things that you've made is your favorite... which is impossible to answer. Nothing I make is precious enough to me to warrant favoritism since I see it all as preliminary work for... whatever I make next. That said, I'll admit that this rough sketch of a hare that I made at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is up there for me.

4 comments:

andrewlong said...

#1 Thought this was Andie MacDowell for a minute... but it's obviously Paris Hilton

#2 Willie Nelson

#3 ? ... Renée Zellweger?

#4 Morgan Freeman

#5 Jodie Foster?

#6 Jack Nicholson

#7 Ethan Hawke? (Johnny Depp?)

#8 Russell Crowe?

#9 ?

#10 Jodie Foster again?

(I never noticed all your girls had the same face)

jawcooper said...

Ha ha ha, now I wish it was Andie MacDowell! Still you got most right, clearly I have some work left to do to get some of the likenesses.

I'll give the initials:
1 PH

2 WN

3 NK (though this one was the 1st I did so the likeness is really bad... have to re-do it.)

4 MF

5 KH

6 JN

7/8 JD

9 This is supposed to be CF but it looks like the guy from LOST.

10 Obama


*Bonus #11- bunny rabbit

Bavarian Erin said...

I got all of them except the KH, that one took seeing the initials to trigger it.

The CF is spot on, don't worry. It screams CF, esp. with the stubble!

andrewlong said...

I disagree, #9 looks nothing like Chris Farley =P