em...'s caricatures

em... wrote:

Spanish caricaturist and illustrator Maria Picasso I Piquer

I've always liked her vector work. So clean and effective.

One a day, though? That's a tough ask, but I too would love to see them posted.

Valence wrote:

em... wrote:

Spanish caricaturist and illustrator Maria Picasso I Piquer

I've always liked her vector work. So clean and effective.

Her ability to distill a likeness down to simple geometric shapes is remarkable

kazky wrote:

Honestly i'm following this on facebook and the standard is just too good, how people have the time to do such good dailies is beyond me, i'm not sure who posted the Arnie one yesterday but bloody hell, it was amazing!

Before it started I fully expected the entries to be very rough sketches, but it's amazing how much time and effort is going into some of the caricatures. It's made me up my game from my first two.

The diversity in styles is very inspirational too. I think quite a lot of caricaturists who don't necessarily draw or paint in a realistically representational way have become somewhat disillusioned with some of the other online caricature contests that always seem to be won by the more photoreal entries, but they seem to be really embracing the January challenge - maybe because it's a non competitive celebration of the art.

Charlotte wrote:

I think it'd be fun to do something similar here - though without a time limit perhaps? But post a list (the same list would be fine with me) and people can do caricatures of the people on that list in their own time and order throughout the year? (Maybe em... would prefer another list )

Like an open-ended workshop kind of thing, where people could dip in and out as they pleased? Could be good.



Here's the first five from the January Daily Challenge


Danny DeVito.




Arnold Schwarzenegger.




Uma Thurman.




Quentin Tarantino.




Samuel L Jackson

The next five in the monthly caricature challenge.

Bruce Willis.




Liv Tyler.




Elijah Wood.




Rainn Wilson (in Super).




Steve Carell.

All painfully good!
The Rainn WIlson was a brave choice. The last thing I'd want to do to get a likeness is to cover up their recognisable features but you've still managed to get him with just the eyes and mouth. Amazing!