Tom's Mad Blog
June 23rd, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Today’s subject was actually a character… Tarzan! We could draw any actor who has played Tarzan in film or on TV. I went with Christopher Lambert‘s Ape Man from the 1984 film “Greystoke” The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes”. I haven’t seen the movie in years, but it came out right when I graduated high school and I vividly remember seeing it in theaters at the time and thinking it was great. Plus… THAT FOREHEAD is more like a FIVEHEAD. READ MORE
June 23rd, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here are the last of my catch up sketches for “Tom’s Daily Coronacature”. Earlier in our 100 day run I posted a few old sketches due to some deadlines I was trying to beat, so I am doing new sketches of those subjects. Here’s Kurt Russell, Jimmy Fallon and Gina Torres. READ MORE
June 22nd, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s a quick sketch of the haunting Eva Green for day 98. Eva’s eyes are certainly the focal point of her presence. They have an interesting shape, with a very horizontal upper eyelid and the lower shape of the eye much more round. They are also very wide eyes, taking up almost her entire face width. She has a rather large forehead mass and a thin jawline. Two more days to day 100! READ MORE
June 21st, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s my drawing of Donald Glover. I am not sure it’s much of a caricature of him. Most of this drawing is about the herky-jerky awkwardness of his dance moves in the “This is America” video. READ MORE
June 20th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s my Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Day 96. He’s a pretty easy caricature for most people because he has a very obvious head shape for exaggeration. Everything starts with the shape of the head. If you can see and exaggerate the head shape effectively, the rest of the caricature falls into place because the other shapes have to fit into that exaggerated head shape. Dwayne has a classic “bullet head” with a small cranial mass. It’s partly because he is bald, but mostly because he has a massive jaw and chin, and a smaller top of a skull. Add to that the really thick neck… READ MORE
June 19th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s my take on the (very recently) late actor Sir Ian Holm. When I teach my workshops I talk a lot about how caricature is about capturing/exaggerating someone’s “presence” as much as their features. In fact, the features are just the medium we use to describe a subject as a person. The meat and bones are just inanimate tissue without the personality and presence of the person to animate it. That is why really good impressionists can actually resemble the people they are impersonating without any makeup… they mimic the facial expressions of the subject as well as their voice, and even though the impressionist… READ MORE
June 18th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s my caricature of Emma Stone for the Daily Coronacature. Emma has a very cute, wholesome, “girl next door” sort of look. She reminds me a little of Lindsay Lohan before all the drugs and booze. Emma has a tiny, short nose and quite big eyes. However when she smiles like this her eyes get very squinty, so the need to be wide to make sure they still occupy a lot of the face width, and the prominent bulges under the eyes become important as well. She has a toothy smile with “downturned” corners, which you occasionally see in people with big smiles. Most of… READ MORE
June 17th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Still struggling with a lot of different projects with tight deadlines, so this one is a bit late today… upcoming star of “The Batman” Robert Pattinson. At first Pattinson seems to have an easy face to caricature. He has a very square chin and sharp, angular features including an amazingly square jawline and prominent cheekbones. He also has heavy, dark eyebrows, a sharp, pointed nose and sort of sleepy eyes. However different angles of his face seem to present entirely different head shapes, and there is a lot of subtlety about his features and expression that can be elusive. I found that trying to really… READ MORE
