Tom's Mad Blog
May 25th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s my take on today’s subject, Daisy Ridley! I find her hard to capture because when trying to push the exaggeration of one relationship it causes some others to be compromised. For example, she has a petite, pointed nose, but she also has a very small chin and very little space between her mouth and nose. If you exaggerate the short space between the nose and chin, her nose almost has to be longer or everything below the eyes is exaggerated small, and that washes it all out. The only way to pull it off is to give her bigger eyes, a wider face especially… READ MORE
May 25th, 2020 | Posted in News
Well, I’m not sure it’s quite a “milestone”, but my book The Mad Art of Caricature! recently hit 400 ratings on Amazon. 86% are 5 star, and 95% are 4 stars or greater! That’s a nice thing to happen just as I am arranging the 11th printing. That’s right… ELEVEN. I am continually amazed at the staying power of this book. BTW, this new printing will feature one new element… a second forward by the great Al Jaffee!! As for version 2.0, I’m afraid that is on hold, probably for a very long time. I’ve got too many other long term projects in the pipeline… READ MORE
May 24th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s my sketch of John Krasinski. John has a long, narrow face shape but a wide and rounded jaw area. Between that shape, his beard, and a bit of an underbite, he looks like he has “chipmunk cheeks” (a term meaning it looks like you have filled the cavities between your teeth and the inside of your mouth with food). He also has a pretty big nose, but mostly because it is very flat and wide between the nostrils, not that is is bulky. Finally, he has prominent ears. READ MORE
May 23rd, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s my take on Cardi B. I’m not very familiar with her, having barely seen any video of her performing, so I did this caricature based almost soley on the static pictures I looked up. That is usually not a recipe for a good caricature. You need to have some sense of the subject in motion and as a person, not just a series of images. Photos are often distorted, touched up, or can be at weird angles or taken at an odd moment, and might not give you an accurate representation of the subject. Looking at Cardi B, she has fairly small eyes, and… READ MORE
May 22nd, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
I went with Ian McKellen as Sherlock from the film “Mr. Holmes”! That movie came out about a year after I did my Sherlock print, so he wasn’t included (I would have added him in… great performance!) McKellen’s face is mostly about the nose, tiny little mouth and the heavy skin above his eyes that obscure his upper eyelids. That creates a very diagonal line going down from the nose bridge past the outside corner of the eye. READ MORE
May 21st, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Better late than never… here’s my take on today’s subject, Chiwetel Ejiofor! I find him to be a tough subject to capture. He has very intense eyes but unlike most eyes where the lower lid is very round the upper lid is very straight across from corner to corner. That prevents the “droopy” eyed look you often see when a subject has the whites of their eyes show all the way around the bottom half of the iris. he also has a protruding front lip, and I find the highlight just above the ridge of the upper lip is important to capture that. He has… READ MORE
May 20th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
I only have time for a quick sketch of today’s Daily Coronacature subject… Dame Maggie Smith! READ MORE
May 19th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
I kinda went overboard on today’s Daily Coronacature. Here’s my take on Stephen King. King has a triangular face shape. He has a high forehead and a wide jaw, with the angle of the mandible bones quick low on his face. He has a short, small, upturned nose and a LOT of space between his nose and mouth. READ MORE
