Once again, a day late and a dollar short. I’ve been working on a MAD job that took far longer to pencil out than I thought it would and didn’t have the time to post a sketch yesterday. Anyway, here’s a drawing of celebrity nutcase Charlie Sheen. I did one of him once before, but I saw a profile/three-quarter view picture of him that was perfect for that pointy nose, jutting chin and neanderthal brow, and couldn’t resist.

I chose this week’s sketch subject to make my wife The Lovely Anna and my youngest daughter, The Effervescent Gabrielle, happy as they are both big fans of the TV show Castle. Nathan Fillion is notoriously hard to caricature. His features are elusive in the same way a young William Shatner‘s features were… at different angles/expressions his face looks very different, almost like another person. His chin, for example, seems to seem quite large in any angle where his head is tilted back even slightly, but in a profile or more upright angle you see it is actually a rather small chin, but it sticks out quite far. There are other examples. I’ve found only a 3/4 angle works with this guy.

This week’s Sketch o’the Week is a quick study from a vintage picture of Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters.

I know what you are thinking: “So, why is Janet Leigh of Pyscho fame dressed as an elf in this ink sketch?”

That’s a good question . . .

This week’s Sketch o’the Week is actor Leslie David Baker, AKA Stanley Hudson from the TV Show The Office. I have to admit I have never seen a full episode of The Office, although I have no doubt the show deserves all of it’s many accolades. In the meantime… what a face!

This week is another of the sketches I did for my “Secret Agent Man” limited edition print (which are still available! ), this one of Timothy Dalton.

I thought I was being very clever when I did the art for that print. I wanted to make sure I did something that would be appreciated by even hardcore Bond fans. I wanted the poses, attitudes, accessories, etc. to be spot on. I underestimated how hardcore those fans can be, however. I was taken to task over several blunders, like the ruffles on George Lazenby’s shirt being horizontal, not vertical. The worst offense was that I put them all in tuxedos with “wing-tip” shirt collars . . . apparently James Bond wouldn’t be caught dead in a wing-tip collar. Oh, well. Can’t win ‘em all.

Kind of busy again this week so I am going to post another of the more finished sketches I did for my “Secret Agent Man” print. This one is of the most recent actor to play James Bond in the movies, Daniel Craig. In the print, I decided to lose the dripping blood and the pain “stars” because I thought that was a little too much.

I’ve been asked why I made Craig look so beat up. I think the answer should be obvious. While all the movie Bonds occasionally took a beating, Craig is one of the few who actually ended up looking like he was in a fight. Plus his and the film’s approach to Bond is a much more gritty and realistic one compared to the pseudo-superhero he was in many of the other films. In fact, having read the original books by Ian Fleming a few times, I think Craig’s Bond might be the closest to Fleming’s original character than any of the others.

Incidentally, the “Secret Agent Man” print art does appear in my book, The Mad Art of Caricature!, which makes this sketch one of the 106 that are being sold as the “original sketch from book” option when you pre-order a copy. Except please don’t request a particular sketch… these are being chosen totally at random. I am actually down to just little over 20 pieces of original art from the book left, so if you are thinking about pre-ordering the book with that option, don’t wait too much longer!

Getting back to sketches that have nothing to do with the book, here’s a fresh one. Subject: the dreamy Ryan Reynolds. Bizarre sort of reference… looked like he had a mustache.

This week’s sketch is another from my studies for the Secret Agent Man print (limited edition prints still available!)- this one is the final pencil sketch of Sean Connery.

I did this sketch of Malcolm in the Middle actor Erik Per Sullivan for one of the chapters in my book, The Mad Art of Caricature!. The chapter in question is focused on drawing and caricaturing individual features. Can you guess which feature this one was an example of?