Caricatures in progress and reason for a Wednesday post

I was out of town on the weekend attending a hockey tournament in Eagan Minnesota with my youngest son. He plays for the Thunder Bay Elks Royals Peewee A team. The team played extremely well and after 4 games they were able to claim first place besting the Edina Hornets 3 to 1 in the final.

I've been working on a few caricatures for a colleague at work. It is in the preliminary stages right now and I thought I would post my working sketches. Caricatures for me still take longer then I would like, which is due to my struggle with how far to exaggerate the facial features. I would like to be able to distort the features more but then I think it looses some of the likeness. Ah well, in time I may be able to win the internal struggle and thus increase my proficiency. 

I mentioned on an earlier post that I would post a picture of the caricature I did of the retired motorcycle instructor on the Vespa, so finally, here is the head cropped from the original picture I worked from and the head cropped from the finished caricature.

Female on Paddleboard

Last week I have been looking for photo reference on the web of people in kayaks for a caricature that I am doing for someone at work and I came across this picture of an attractive lady on a paddle board and could not resist sketching her.

Pig with gal on cinnamon grater

Without recalling if I've mentioned in my previous posts that I dedicate my first waking hour each weekday morning to sketching, I am admitting it now. With this in mind, I sometimes do not have an original idea to sketch, so I turn to illustrators that I have a real interest in. This week, I am posting a sketch I did during one of my morning sessions based on an original drawing by Heinrich Kley. Now there is nudity, but nothing that would suggest indecency, well not of the lady anyway - I believe she is sitting on a cinnamon grater. Maybe the pig would be considered indecent?  What Kley's thought process was for this sketch is likely only known to Mr. Kley himself. It was an intriguing drawing and one that was fun to duplicate.

Edweena Scissorhands

So we just passed Halloween, and even though I maybe a little late with my homage to this yearly festival, I thought I would add a sketch from this past week in keeping with the season.