On the Drawing Board
I’m currently working on the last parts of my book on drawing caricatures and a new episode segment for “MAD” on the Cartoon Network, which is all keeping me pretty busy. I should be able to share work from MAD #509, a few magazine jobs including a cover illustration and some other goodies this month.
In the meantime, here is my latest workplace poster job for The Marlin Company:
The pencil sketch
The final artwork
It is about time you wrote a book on drawing caricatures. I can’t wait to buy it! This is a fantastic piece.
Thanks!
tom, how do you work out how small heads and figures have to be further back in the drawing? do you use some sort of perspective grid, or do you just eyeball it? thanks.
I just eyeball it, which is why it’s riddled with inaccuracies. I cheat perspective frequently to get things into the frame that would otherwise be obscured. I try not to cheat it so much as to be distracting, but I don’t establish two or three point perspective vanishing points and plot everything. I think that tends to take some of the charm out of it and makes it too mechanical. As long as you can fake it with a certain degree of believability, then you can make it work.
How you do that?!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tom,
I am always enjoying your blog. Your blog is one of my best pages that I open every day.
Thank you for everything…
excelente Tom!
Was this done in Photoshop? Nice technique on the counter! Any hints on the technique?
PhotoShop, yes. For the counter here I took a photo of a quartz countertop in my house, created a big single image of the textured pattern and then cut and pasted it into the illustration.