In The Mad Art of Caricature, award-winning caricaturist and illustrator Tom Richmond shares his secrets to creating great caricatures, drawing on his 25...
In The Mad Art of Caricature, award-winning caricaturist and illustrator Tom Richmond shares his secrets to creating great caricatures, drawing on his 25...
In The Mad Art of Caricature, award-winning caricaturist and illustrator Tom Richmond shares his secrets to creating great caricatures, drawing on his 25...
Here’s something different I’ve been doing for a client lately- watercolor caricatures of executives as gifts for promotions/retirements/etc. These are all physical ink/watercolors. They give me a list of things each person is “known for” and I do an illustration incorporating those things as gags or whatever. Having to haul out the old watercolors is what prompted me to take a refresher workshop from a former college instructor of mine who lives in the area. All of these were done prior to that afternoon. I’m looking forward to seeing the difference in my technique if/when I do more of these. These guys all like wine,…
This series of “How to Draw Caricatures” tutorials are a just a small taste of a larger and much more in-depth book I wrote called The Mad Art of Caricature! The book is 175 full-color pages, lavishly illustrated and contains greatly expanded explanations of the concepts presented in these tutorials, as well and a great deal of additional material on caricaturing other facial features, posture, hands, expression and more, techniques on drawing from live models, doing caricature for freeplace illustration and for MAD Magazine. This is a must have book for anyone interested in caricature, cartooning or humorous illustration. You can order it online here.…
Here are a few more of the limited “Christmas Commissions” I did earlier this month. Most people won’t recognize anyone depicted but some of these had some fun bodies/themes. Maybe I’ll do something like this again next year! There were others but I didn’t scan them all, nor did I think it appropriate to post them all… not all people would want it posted. These above were either done for or were of fellow caricaturists I know or were posted online by the owners of the art.
Lots of stuff going on right now, including a short but fun MAD piece for #504, more animation storyboards, a movie poster, a special project for a colleague and I’m just wrapping up the illustration for the 2010 National Cartoonist Society Reuben Awards T-shirt. Whew. Here are some goofy images I did recently as part of what will be an animated gag for a TV show promo. Babies, baby… I got a lot of practice doing these at the theme parks:
I’m back to deadlines after my workshop in Austin this past weekend, so this week’s Sketch o’the Week is one of the “Workshop Warmups” we did… screen legend Bette Davis! For these warmups, I ask the class to suggest a subject, then I do an image search for a good picture of that subject and project that on the wall. We all do a 10-15 minute warm up sketch from the pic. I work on a Wacom Cintiq Mobilestudio Pro so they can watch me draw along with them. We usually do 3-4 of these on Saturday morning. I’ll post a few more tomorrow.
I really got a lot of positive comments on my illustrations for CNN’s “History of the Sitcom” documentary. Thanks to everyone who had nice things to say about the art. For those whose only comments were “WHY ISN’T (insert name of their favorite show) INCLUDED?!?”, please contact CNN Original Series to complain and/or just put it on your TS list. Many people asked about the process and how I put together the compositions. Because there were so many people and they needed to be put together in both a vertical and horizontal format, I did individual sketches of each “show” character(s) and then played around…
Here are a few more of the limited “Christmas Commissions” I did earlier this month. Most people won’t recognize anyone depicted but some of these had some fun bodies/themes. Maybe I’ll do something like this again next year! There were others but I didn’t scan them all, nor did I think it appropriate to post them all… not all people would want it posted. These above were either done for or were of fellow caricaturists I know or were posted online by the owners of the art.
Back to one for my “Classic Rock Sketch” series, this week’s subject is the late, great satirical rocker Frank Zappa! You can purchase the original in my Studio Store.
While I don’t have time to do many personal commission outside of the comic-cons I work, I do sometimes do caricatures for corporate clients for executives that might be retiring or being honored in some way. What’s the difference between a personal caricature and one done for corporate client?Two things actually. One is that the subject is generally unaware of the project and I am not subjected to being art directed by the person whom the drawing depicts, and therefore avoid any complications brought on by vanity or unrealistic self-image. The second reason is plain and simple… money. I am comfortable charging corporate clients the…
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