#1k44 last 2 for the year

#43k FU

Frank Underwood of HBO's House of Cards played by Kevin Spacey. Pan pastel on toned paper. 18x24ins. 

#42k Dennis Franz

Charcoal on newsprint. 5x6.5

#41K Jay Leno

Graphite on 12x18 newsprint. A study of which I would like to do a colored version anytime soon. 

#40k a study

A study on soft pastel. Rough finish brown paper. 

Here I was experimenting the different colors I can use to vary the tones from warm to cool temperature. 

#39k

A study in soft pastel. 

#38k Daniel

Charcoal. 9 x12 inches toned paper.

#1k37 Wilhem

Charcoal caricature of American actor Wilhem Dafoe. 12x18 inches. Newsprint. 

I tried my best on being consistent on applying the lighting principles across the face. Hopefully I gave justice to it. I gave the background a painterly effect as painters would treat it- that v-shape. I just thought of it to see if it would look good. 

I was at Vegas that time when I did this. I could not help separating work from leisure so I brought my art materials with me ,that I have to wake up crazy early to give time to my art. It's a big sacrifice when I realized I tend to doze off at daytime. Hey, but no regrets. It's worth it.

#1k36 Jeremy

Jeremy Renner caricature in charcoal. Second attempt. 12x18 inches newspriint. 

Ritmo charcoal is my new fav now. It's so soft, with grainy effect, I don't even have to use a stump to smudge it (a finger does the trick).  It gives me this painterly effect -easily! No problem on sharpening, it doesn't break easily. I use HB for lighter drawing and 3B for the kind of darks I want.   It works perfect with smooth newsprint  paper.  I used white compressed sticks for my highlights. You should try it.

#1k35 Ben

Ben Stiller caricature in charcoal. Newsprint. 

#1k34 Jeremy

Jeremy Lee Renner, American actor, is appearing on the latest Mission Impossible sequel. Carbon on newsprint.

I'm more comfortable rendering the backgrounds for my subject from now on because of the concept I just learned from artist Stan Prokopenko's video. He said toning down the edge suggests depth to the back end of the head, and enhances the focus of interest on the foreground. It makes s lot of sense. Thanks Stan!

 

#1k33 Kirk

Kirk Douglas, American movie icon. Carbon in 9x12 ins. newsprint. 

#1k32 Luis

Watercolor on 9x12 ins. Cold press paper.

 I try to make Luis interesting by adding a football jersey since he's big on football games and Raiders in particular. Here's a caricature of him.

#1k31 Fab 4

A rough sketch of Paul, George, Ringo, and John. Here I focused only the exaggeration of the faces and their lights and darks. I let loose of the hair and the rest of the figures. Graphite on 8x11.5 inches of sketchbook paper.

#1k29 Lovett

A study in graphite. An early morning creation. It's always a great feeling being able to finish one early in the morning. Now I will only have to depend if I get another chance of time for myself to create another one.

#1k30 Ron

Caricature of Ron Perlman in ink. This is my first attempt from an inspiration I got from works of fellow Instagram artist/friend Anglo Luis Iglesias. I don't have his website addy at hand but, I think, you can google his name. Check out his incredible works. 

1k28 keep it burning

I just thought of sharing some powerful words to live by for your aspiration or dreams in any case.  I stumbled on this words of wisdom by artist Chris Saper.  I used one of my creations as background- a caricature of Tom Selleck of the 80s famous TV series Magnum PI. 

#1k27 The Great One B!

Pencil in a 8.5 x 11 inches sketchbook. I've done a lot of beethovens but so far this is as close as I can get to my satisfaction as of yet. I intend to do more in a different medium and see how it goes. 

#1k26 Vincent

Inspired from Van Gogh's self-portrait. Caricature in pastel. 9x12 inches. 

#1k25 Samuel

Carbon in sketchbook. 

This is another sketch created for the caricature contest in Facebook. The contest has no credit of whatsoever, just a fun sharing of drawing and camaraderie .