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Thank you all very much (belatedly)

Valence - I'd been wanting to caricature Jesy Nelson since she first appeared as a contestant on the X-Factor. She's got such a unique face shape, and I was quite pleased with the result.

Thomgirl - Lucy Lui's a tricky one to get right. There's an aloofness to her, but I didn't want to make her too harsh or cold.

With Forest Whitaker, I always feel there's a kind of sadness about him, so the cool colours were to emphasise that.



A rough sketch of model Cara Delevigne (arrived at after a number of failed attempts:




Musician Seasick Steve:

I've seen a few pics of Seasick Steve around but I've no idea who he is ... until *Google* And this one is spot on again. Lovely touch with the red/orange glow, it just adds that extra bit of mood to the image.

Agree with Valence, the rim lighting looks very nice.

A belated thank you both. Seasick Steve's not particularly well known, but he was fun to draw.

The red glow effect was something I stole from Bill Sienkiewicz.


A couple of recent sketches.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange:




Chess ace Magnus Carlsen:





and a painted tribute to the late Anton Yelchin:

Beautiful choice of colours in the last one. Makes it looks suitably poignant.

Thank you. It was a terrible loss, to die so young and pointlessly.

The opposite end of the age spectrum now - the 100 year old legend that is Mr Kirk Douglas:

All your sketches and paintings have an 'effortless' look about them, which makes them even more enviable . I love seeing your daily ones on Facebook so please post here too.

Wonderful work as always.

I agree with kazky
That caricature challenge you're in on facebook, is that 1 caricature a day all year?

Thank you both.

Charlotte wrote: I agree with kazky
That caricature challenge you're in on facebook, is that 1 caricature a day all year?

Just for January.

The idea originated in a Facebook post by American caricaturist Patrick Martinez, where - inspired by the likes of Inktober - he decided to give himself the challenge of drawing one caricature each day for the month and drew up a list of subjects.

I saw it reposted by Spanish caricaturist and illustrator Maria Picasso I Piquer, and suggested making a Facebook group for it, which we did. The group went active in the 28th of December, the three of us posted about it, and by the time of starting there were over 100 members (which has since increased to over 250.

So far the first three subjects (Danny DeVito, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman) have all had over 100 entries; the fourth (Quentin Tarantino) over 95; and the current fifth subject (Samuel Jackson) has over 65.

It's surpassed all our expectations.

That's impressive. And 1 month is doable too. I'd be very afraid to try to commit for a whole year