I've been inspired by the work of cartoon/caricature artist Tom Richmond lately. Those of us who are a little bit older recognize his style from Mad Magazine. He's written a excellent series of blog posts/tutorials on drawing caricatures, with a book soon to follow. If you are interested in this style of work, I highly recommend checking out his blog and getting his book when it's published!
This inspired me to do the drawing up above, who I hope you recognize as Stephen Colbert from The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. It's the first caricature I've done in a long, long time, and, after around 5 or more sketches, this is where I arrived. My next steps will be to re-create it digitally in Illustrator, my software of choice. I'm also thinking I may do that one as a tutorial, but I'm not sure if I want to go the screenshot or video routes with that...if you have any thoughts, I'd love to hear them!
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