TomKat
We used to keep bunches of celebrity magazines at the stand. There would be piles of them. And here in ’06, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were in every. Single. One. Always.
Sometimes you draw people just because they’re in front of you all the time. So that explains this caricature. I was also happy to draw a meek Katie Holmes in the background with toothy Tom Cruise in the foreground.
Mariah Carey
Looks like the date on this Mariah Carey caricature is 2008. As I write this description in 2016, Mariah Carey just had some of her billboards banned in California airports for being too revealing. In the billboards, she’s showing lots of skin, wrapped in a small amount of gold fabric. So I feel like this caricature captures her pretty well, then and now.
I’m always happy to finish a drawing using the minimum possible amount of colors. I count seven colors used here: Peach, Goldenrod, Dark Brown, Crimson Red, Sienna Brown, Light Blue and Black for the microphone. Artstix may not get very dark when you’re drawing quickly, but they do mix well, and I try to use as much white from the paper as I can.
George Clooney
This George Clooney was done after a few failed attempts to exaggerate his face and still keep a likeness. In fact, with most of my caricatures, I start by trying to exaggerate as much as possible and still keep a likeness, and if I can’t do it, I wind up just drawing a portrait with markers and Artstix.
George Clooney wasn’t bearded for very long, but he was when this was drawn.