The Sketchblog

It's been a while since I did any celebrity caricatures so I think I might have had a little too much fun with this one of Jay Leno. I've been working on a more 'painterly' look and have had fun getting away from inked lines. This was done entirely in photoshop (a little freehand) for a story about headliners coming to the area, Leno being one of them.

Really, though, Jay Leno is probably one of the easiest people in the world to caricature. He's just eyebrows and chin.

Click on the picture above for a cheeky closeup.

I just finished my new portfolio/blog for my illustrations. I'll keep my sketches here and put more of the illustration work at joshferrin.com. This familiar fellow is from that site and I thought I would post a larger version of him here. I've always wanted a rocket pack but I doubt the phonograph jets are anything but practical.

Here are the other two tourists I did for a Business section story. I have a nasty habit of doing self-portraits in a lot of my stuff but I don't think anyone has ever noticed.

The original sketch

Stingy business lady

Original sketch

Final illustration.

Here's a sneak-peak at an illustration that we will be running this weekend on tourists in Reno. The idea was to have a picture of the average tourist, and this is what we came up with.

As I said before, I love drawing old people and assume you like to look at drawings of them so, here's a closeup of his cute little face.

People ask me all the time how I do these drawings. It starts out with a pencil sketch (8.5x11) with a little shading that I scan in. I darken up the lines to make them look more like I inked it and then color it in Photoshop. Viola!

While visiting a library in Cathedral City (CA) I saw a massive painting of a dark, cloudy landscape that stuck in my mind. I was into memory sketching at the time so I went home and tried to recreate the painting from memory. This is what I ended up with.



A wax pencil drawing of Lincoln.



One in a series of illustrations that I did for the company postcard.


One in a series of illustrations that I did for the company postcard.



A caricature I did for a silent auction.