Tom's Mad Blog
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
May 18th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s my Pete Davidson caricature for #tomsdailycoronacature! Pete has a fun face to draw. He’s doesn’t really have that long of a chin but his mouth is close to his nose so that makes his chin appear longer. He also has a high forehead, and in order to exaggerate both of those things at once you need to give him a longer face, but a short nose. He has heavy eyelids that give him a sleepy eyed look, and one of his eyes is a bit more closed that the other. He has very prominent lips, and big, rectangular teeth. Sometimes he has a crooked,… READ MORE
May 17th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s my Keira Knightly. She’s another subject that looks deceptively easy at first but if you exaggerate certain features they fight other features that are also important. For example, Keira has really strong cheekbones, and a “hollow” in her outside jaw mass on each side of her mouth. She also has a really wide jaw that is very angular for a woman, an it has a lot of mass within her face shape. That creates a wide face shape. But she also has a pretty tall forehead. It’s basically impossible to exaggerate both the width AND tallness of a face shape, because those exaggerations cancel… READ MORE
May 16th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Better late than never… here’s my Jim Henson. READ MORE
May 15th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s my Sean Connery for today’s Daily Coronacature. Connery has a tough face to capture. At first glance it looks easy with his really dark and large eyebrows, the dark eyelashes and “eyeliner” look to his lower lashes, the ski-slope nose, the pursed lips and deep creases along his face. But putting them all together seems tricky. You have to give him a wide forehead, but not as wide as his brows. His nose isn’t really that long but he has a a shorter space between his nose and mouth, and his mouth and somewhat smallish chin. That makes his nose look longer, and gives… READ MORE
May 15th, 2020 | Posted in News
Earlier this month another scheduled workshop passed by having been postponed due to the pandemic, this one was supposed to happen in Long Island City, NY. We did a little Zoom meeting for those able to participate and I did the class poster art, and am mailing out all the workshop swag to everyone. We’ll reschedule that one for the fall sometime once the hotel staff gets back to work. Other postponed workshops include my caricature illustration workshop that was scheduled for March here in MN, the April Chicago workshop, and now the Vienna and Dublin workshops in June. I have rescheduled some of these… READ MORE
