This week’s sketch subject is Dexter star Jennifer Carpenter. She has a very long face, a crooked mouth and small, angular eyes very far apart.

Bit of a cheat this week for the SotW as this is a portion of a job I’m working on. Park of the rough sketch, thus the very loose drawing. I’ll post the final art when it’s appropriate. I would hope it’s obvious this is a caricature of Albert Einstein.

Well, this is more of a retouch rather than a bonus sketch. I dug out this old sketch of Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, when I needed to put a bunch of pictures of recognizable overweight celebrities in the background of the splash page of the Mike & Molly parody I did for the last issue of MAD. I did a VERY quick colorizing job on the black and white pencil sketch with the above results. The image printed very tiny in the magazine (about 1/2 inch square), thus the very loose paint job. Shatner is notoriously hard to caricature, and I think the color adds a lot to the likeness.

This week’s sketch subject is multiple-Grammy winning singer Adele, who is a major celebrity around the Richmond household. She is The Lovely Anna‘s favorite, and my kids are all musically gifted singers and musicians who appreciate great talents. Adele is a great talent, no question. You need only look at the Grammy performances to see that. While Rhianna, Nikki Minaj and others had elaborate productions and stageshows, Adele needed only a microphone and a spotlight, and blew them all away. The Richmond clan are big fans, so I spent a little longer than usual on this sketch as a result . . . although I still got a dirty look from Anna because I drew Adele “too fat” in her opinion.

Here’s a quick warm-up sketch of the new Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield. Can’t really tell if that’s what his hair looks like after a few hours of swinging around NYC in the Spidey-suit, or it’s like that all the time. Gotta wonder if I’ll end up drawing a movie parody of this film for MAD. I have no idea if MAD will even DO a parody of this one, since we did all the Tobey MaGuire Spider-Man films (I did the art for the first two), and maybe they are going to be sick of doing reboots that are only six years apart.

This week’s SotW subject is Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Michael Peter Balzary aka “Flea“. He wasn’t naked in the picture I drew this from, but as he was known for playing entire concerts naked back in the late 1990′s… thus the Full Monte treatment.

This week’s SotW subject is Saturday Night Live alumni Chris Farley. I did a few studies of various late, portly comedians as part of a project I worked on… maybe another one will show up next week Wednesday.

A quick sketchbook study of the late comedian and actor John Candy.

Kicking off the 2012 edition of the “Sketch o’the Week” is one of The Black Key’s drummer Patrick Carney. I came across a picture of him on CNN and couldn’t resist. According to an upcoming interview in Rolling Stone, Patrick thinks the band Nickelback is killing the rock and roll genre. Not sure I agree that rock and roll is dying, but I do agree Nickelback sucks.

A little late today, but here is the Sketch o’the Week, American Horror Story star Connie Britton. A few friends of mine who know my tastes in TV and films, including my wife The Lovely Anna, suggested I give American Horror Story a look. I did, having seen the entire run over the last few weeks via iTunes and my DVR. I have to say my mind is still not made up on the show. Some aspects of it are very engaging and cool, and it is extremely creepy, but for some reason it just hasn’t hooked me all the way. Maybe tonight’s season finale will do the trick. I did like the Black Delilah episode a lot, and Jessica Lange‘s performance as Constance is fantastic. Britton’s Vivien Harmon seems to have this perpetual exhausted frown on her face, as well as the lowest hairline on TV since Eddie Munster.