I have GOT to get my mind on something else, so here’s a stab at my very first political cartoon. It ain’t the greatest for sure, but I needed to occupy myself with something a little more irreverent.
Category Archives: Inked Art
Artwork Upload “Caricature Illustration Practice 04″
what:pen when:Mar 18, 2012
Can’t just pick on the republicans, now can we?
Artwork Upload “Caricature Illustration Practice 03″
what:pen when:Mar 18, 2012
I tried to caricature this one more, by exaggerating features and using less lines. A little bit less busy, but it’s harder to tell who it is. Need to narrow it down more.
Artwork Upload “Caricature Illustration Practice 02″
what:pen when:Mar 18, 2012
I tried my hand at free drawing an ink caricature from a photograph, using my own technique. I clearly haven’t got the knack down of when and where not to draw lines lol. Politicians are always great fun, because they’re already caricatures already.
Artwork Upload “Caricature Illustration Practice 01”
what:pen when:Mar 18, 2012
This is an illustration I did of an illustration by Mort Drucker, the greatest caricaturist who has ever walked the earth. I really hope he doesn’t get too mad at me for practicing on this, but shouldn’t students of art copy the works of the masters?
I hope to be able to someday do this from photographs myself, but for now, I need Mr. Drucker’s art as a guide. He knows exactly where to put each line, and, most importantly, when and where NOT to draw. That’s the trick. A trick I will likely never get down on my own. To be able to draw people, and have them instantly recognized, without introducing their names anywhere would be an amazing goal to achieve.
A goal effortlessly attained by Mort Drucker. However, I need to be extremely careful not to absorb his style.
Artwork Upload “Stressed”
what:ink when:Mar 17, 2012
Another ink illustration for the next chapter of my unreadable guide to life. I guess it’s turning out to be an illustrated guide now. It was supposed to just be a bunch of stupid words, but now I guess it’s turning out to be bunch of stupid words AND stupid pictures.
I haven’t worked on the guide in a while, nor have I done any ink drawings either, so I’ll kill the two proverbial birds tonight.
Artwork Upload (Hard to Digest)
This is how it's done, right?
I was waiting for my wife at the coffee shop today, and decided to occupy myself by drawing a crude little cartoon of myself trying to digest math for that math post I did a few days ago. Done in ink, today, took about 10 minutes. (haven’t been feeling all that great)
Artwork upload “Oblivious”
It happens.
Yet another sketch I ground out for my stupid guide.
Artwork Upload “Cookie Overdose”
what:pen when:01-03-2012
I realized that the guide I’m writing about life is a dry wall of boring words, so I decided to spruce it up a bit by drawing the odd picture here and there for supporting some of the silly points I make.
Artwork Upload “Chasing Taxi Cab”
what:pen when:2/28/12
My first “commissioned” piece of art, ever, at the request of my wife for a blog entry of hers.
Michael Wood 