Speed Painting - Mike Caricature

See the final, coloured image at http://gauravvohra.deviantart.com/art/Mike-Caricature-146232543 !

An unsoliticed caricature of one of my friends, done using Photoshop CS with a mouse, recorded with Hypercam and editted with Premiere Pro. Time taken - 4 hours or so.

Sadly, Hypercam screwed up and stopped recording midway through the drawing process, so I was only left with half of the actual video. Given that this half took up a whopping 130GB on my hard drive, I thought it would be a shame to let it go to waste, so here is the sped up version of that first half :). Fullscreen and HQ recommended.

Please visit http://gauravvohra.deviantart.com/gallery/ for more caricatures. Feedback and comments welcome!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• speed
• painting
• caricature
• portrait
• mike
• inspired
• by
• macpulenta
• nico
• di
• mattia
• bloc
• party
• positive
• tension

[BrainDDR]

good painting but still many things "out of tune". His neck is to thick, mouth and chin are okay, but than it get's wrong. Nose and eyes look like you took them from other paintings.

In my opinion you work with to much layers, of what I can see is that you have at least 10 layers. Try to keep the maximum by 3 to 4, you can always merge layers.

Also, you work to 'smudgy/blurry', that's the reason your painting looks a bit flat

but enough for now - keep doing it ;)

[gooozz]

Thanks for the advice, but one question:

Why should I try to keep the maximum layers to 3 or 4? I can't see the advantage of fewer layers apart from reducing complexity / size of the file... most tutorials I have seen use upwards of 5 layers for things like drawing a single ear...

I've gotten a graphics tablet so should hopefully be less smudgy/blurry in the future :)!

[nzcb1]

Very cool! I knew who it was the moment I saw it - admiring/envious of your many talents! Also, what's the song? I like.

[gooozz]

I'm guessing this is Caughlin :)? The song is Positive Tension by Bloc Party. Thanks for the comment! I was thinking about those portraits of your friend you showed me while doing this actually :)...

[BrainDDR]

depends on the brush you are using :)

Few Layers are better for the Overview, cost less time.

And what have layers to do with the complexity of a drawing? More Layers don't make a better drawing.

And the tutorials you speak of, this is 'Tutorial-makers' experience, try to find your own way - if you can work with so much layers, that's fine.

[francezcko]

yehhh thanks fot the advice

[ryno490]

looks like it was airbrushed. obviously done on the computer but it looks like the product of an airbrush

[thomaselsmore]

Thats definitely Mike Judd! hahaha brilliant!