Caricatures of the week

Dinu Lipatti, King of classical piano
Dinu Lipatti by daullé









Victor Brauner, King of surrealism painting
Victor Brauner by daullé








Mircea Eliade, King of Rligions and Myths's history
Mircea Eliade by daullé






William Shakespeare, King of Human condition
William Shakespeare by daullé























Carlos Ghosn, King of Renault cars
Carlos Ghosn by daullé













Dany Boon, King of the Box Office
Dany Boon by daullé




































Sarah Jessica Parker, Queen of Sex in the city
Sarah Jessica Parker by daullé










Emmanuelle Beart, eternal Manon des Sources
Emmanuelle Beart by daullé





























Catherine Deneuve, Queen of Movies stars
Catherine Deneuve by daullé












Madonna Louise Ciccone, Queen of Music Scene
Madonna by daullé






























Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, King of the TF1 "Vingt-Heures"
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor by daullé














Ray Charles, Georgia on everybody's mind
Ray Charles by daullé









































Karl Lagerfeld, King of Chanel fashion
Karl Lagerfeld by daullé


Another drawing of
Karl Lagerfeld, King of Chanel fashion
Karl Lagerfeld by daullé



























Ibrahim Ferrer, King of bolero and cuban music.
Ibrahim Ferrer by daullé























(to be continued)
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NCN April contest : Matt Damon

Matt Damon is Jan Op de Beck's target for April 2008.


Here are my different posts for that contest


Take One : This pretty guy is not so easy to draw !






Take two : I've tried different techniques, using color markers.

But the proportions aren't good enough.


My third attempt with charcoal pencil

I'd like to use watercolor.

But the likeness fails.

So this my last post

And the winner of March contest is :

Paul Moyse.


(to be continued)

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NCN March contest : Prince Harry Windsor

Jan Op de Beck' s choice fo 2008 March contest is Prince Harry of Windsor

This was my first attempt.









Then I was curious to look Harry's brother : Prince William

There is my second "take" of Prince Harry in watercoler

The upper right one takes care of Jan's comments

I would like to look after another view of Harry.

And this is the last one I've posted

The winner of March's contest is Paul Moyse.

(to be continued)

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The NCN monthly contest

National Caricaturist Network is an amazing playground for each one who wants to learn more and more about exaggeration and likeness drawing techniques.

Jan Op de Beck, from Belgium is one of the very best professionals and senior NCN member. He launched in late february a monthly caricature's contest among NCN members.
Boris Yeltsin, Prince Harry Windsor and Matt Damon have been furiously drawn by dozens of caricaturists. Digital stuffs are prohibited, only manual technique allowed.

I am honoured to participate and send my contributions to those very exciting competitions wher critics and comments are welcome.

Work in progress 2 : Pope Benedict XVI

2. Portrait of Pope Benedict XVI

This is an exemple of testing new media : Reynolds Markers Pinsocolor.



For this I begin with a quick pencil sketch.




After that, I am using the yellow marker. I choose this kind of product because of its brush shape.

A bit larger than Pitt Faber Castell artist pen that I had already tried.

The impression is good.





Then I go on with darker colors : orange, brown.






I draw on with red and pink.







After that it's time to take the eyes with two blue colors.






I finish the job with black marker.

Half an hour to realize these operations, then I scanned and applyed a Watercolor filter in Photoshop and added a pale cream background.

Pope Benedict XVI is ready now to fly in the USA !

(to be continued)

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Work in progress 1 : Silvio Berlusconi

1. Portrait of Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy

This is a new post for non definitive drawings.
I' m gonna try to post the various steps of caricatures. From the first study to the use of colours.

Above, the first take of Berlusconi, using two pencils : Pitt Graphite pure 2900 frm Faber Castell (Germany). A 3B and a 6B pencils. The paper is french Clairefontaine cream Sketch paper 90g.
The size : 14,8 x 21 cm.


Here's the second step, after scanning at 300 dpi, I import the drawing in Photoshop CS3. Then I create a sepia shade off background and I color the foreground with an harmonious tone.


Then, I use two Photoshop filters, Watercolor in the artistic filter group, and Maximum in the diverses filtergroup. Maybe it would be interesting to try something else with Corel Painter Effects.



(to be continued)


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1. Portrait of Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy

Ulysse Merou's death

Who, the hell, is this guy ??













It is is Planet of the Apes principal character, less known as Ulysse Mérou, authoritatively performed by recently dead Charlton Heston.
But who was in mourning for Mérou ? - Nobody.

If everybody, in fact, has heard of Ben Hur's death, it's because of the eponymous film heroe played by Charlton Heston.

But does anyone remember that the complete name of Ben Hur was "Judas Ben Hur" ? (Sounds not so brilliant).

Let' s recall the mere Heston's parts : Ramon Miguel Vargas (Touch of evil), Chrysagon de la Cruz ( The War Lord), Brad Braden (The Greatest show on earth), Major Matt Lewis (55 days at Peking), Robert Neville (The Last Man on Earth), Alan Murdock (Airport 1975), Captain Matthew Garth (Midway), Detective Thorn (Soylent Green), Major Dundee (Major Dundee!), Rodrigue (El Cid), and of course, Moshe ( The Ten Commandments), General Charles Gordon (Khartoum), and many others.



They all contribute to shape each Charlton Heston role as a legend, who will now never die.




(To be continued)

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