Court Jones
Southern California
Freelance commercial illustrator and caricature entertainer. He’s done a lot of editorial and product illustration and concept work for film and TV.
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madiko
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4mo
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Etüde opus 0012:
Master study: This is the inked caricature of John Krasinski alias Jim Halpert in "The Office". I inked the pencil drawing by master @Court Jones (https://www.youtube.com/live/WnN3M3rpcHI?t=402). Three years it took me to assemble the courage to take a leap at this gorgeous caricature. What I love about Cour's work is, that he is able to convey the facial expression, sculpting the forms and shadows with ONE set of lines. This is so amazing and I struggle a lot with it in my own works. I took some liberties though (hair for instance). Hope you like it nevertheless. Would be glad to get some pointers as what you see and what I can learn.
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4mo
Nice job! Good control of your lines! And thanks for the kind words.
Great talk, and really cool to watch the demo! Thanks, @Court Jones and @Stephen Clark! And the Black Friday ad in the end of the livestream was a lot of fun, haha!
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1yr
Thanks, Liandro!
Court Jones
1yr
Hello, this is my abstraction drawing and final sketch of Pete Townshend !
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2yr
Hi Arnaud. The likeness is pretty good in the final sketch. But some more practice carefully drawing the abstraction would be helpful, I think. Its big problem is the main vertical center line of the face. You drew it projecting far off the front of the face. Or perhaps you just did not draw the eyes and nose rhythms in the proper relationship to the center line. Either way, the center line should represent the front plane of the face. It should touch the entire length of the forehead, then it should touch the septum of the nose, where it meets the upper lip and then should end at the front plane of the chin. And the eyes should sit equal distance from the center line (but with perspective taken into consideration when the head is turned away, as in this drawing).
Also, the final sketch does not feel very final. It seems more like a loose rough sketch. Partly because of the problems with your construction, but also because of the quick, spontaneous feeling to the line work. Maybe the quick spontaneous look is what your goal is here. I'm not sure. But if you want to do more realistic painted caricatures, the final drawing should have more attention paid to the quality of the shapes. And you will need to shade them more like a painter and less like an inker. The more you practice tonal drawing techniques, the better prepared you will be to move into color painting.
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Hello, here is the final sketch of John Boham !
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2yr
Hi Arnaud. The Abstraction sketch is pretty well done. It's clean and easy to see your construction rhythm lines. However, I think you would benefit from adding horizontal rhythm lines for the central axis of the eyes and also the line of the mouth opening. And maybe for the small circular nodes at the corners of the mouth. Because in your final drawing of John, the eyes are not aligned properly with the angle of the head. And the mouth is not centered well under the nose. Smiles can often be crooked. But if it is an accident and you didn't mean to make it crooked, you should go back and do your abstraction more carefully.
Remember, the purpose of the abstraction is to help map the face and place the features in the correct positions and orientation, relative to the angle of the head.
Also, his nose does not look to be at the correct angle in your drawing. It seems to be pointed down to the left too much. And his head seems to be looking slightly to the right.
Proko
2yr
Court Jones
2yr
Court's presentations just keep getting better. Well done.
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3yr
Thanks, Mr. Bill!
Court Jones
3yr
