Tom richmond caricatures

Remember how I promised threatened to start a new series for the SotW based on famous moments in movies? Bad news… it’s started! This week’s movie moment is Robert De Niro as “Travis Bickle” in the famous “are you talkin’ to me?” scene from “Taxi Driver”. This might be the most often and badly imitated scene in all of movie history… well, this and any Sean Connery impression. Oh, and before I get a flood of responses to this telling me I put De Niro’s mole on the wrong side of his face…

Minnesota artist specializing in illustrations and caricatures. Store, gallery, blog, biography, client list and contact details.

Here’s my take on Jackie Chan. I did a “workshop warm up” of him a year or so ago, and this one is from the same reference but revisited and redrawn. Jackie’s got a fun head shape. Very wide but with more mass above his eyes in the top of his head. He has a hugely wide nose, although it could be argued it’s also pretty long. If you want to really exaggerate the width, it’s more effective to squash the bottom o the face than to try and also make it long. He also has tiny eyes and a wide…

I debated which era of Tommy Lee Jones I should draw him from and I chose a little older version, from about the later “Men in Black” and “No Country for Old Men” film period. His face developed a lot of character when it was older, and the sort of dour, weary expression is what I wanted to play with. He’s a bit of a caricature “gimme” since he has so much to work with.

If you recognize this one of the late Leslie Nielsen from my book The Mad Art of Caricature that’s because it’s in that book. I did do a new sketch for this week but subscribers to my “The Ink Stained Wretch” weekly newsletter see it first. I’m posting throwback SotWs for the next two weeks, and then the sketches I debuted for subscribers will get posted here. So subscribe, already!

Kinda busy right now so here’s a suddenly relevant again subject: 21 times Golden Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps! I did this sketch in 2008 during the Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Minnesota artist specializing in illustrations and caricatures. Store, gallery, blog, biography, client list and contact details.

Continuing with my series of “Stranger Things” sketches, here is Chief Jim “Hop” Hopper as portrayed by David Harbour! Incidentally, I have not been adding my weekly sketches to the Studio Store lately… just a little to busy to follow through. I have rectified that, so this one and several other have just been added.