Think Weston Magazine

This is the monthly horoscope page for the September issue of ThinkWeston,

Bill Gates Caricature

Bill Gates caricature, I tried to push the exaggeration a little trying to preserve likeness, I also kept a limited color range, I am going to try to do this as much as I can..

John Lennon Caricature

This is the third caricature for the ThinkWeston magazine's horoscope page for October, John Lennon, a Libra too, (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980), is being in the media once again in a big way thanks to the video game "Rock band" in this caricature I tried a new pop-art-like style, although I never liked that style I really like the results, so I might be doing more in this style.

Susan Sarandon for ThinkWeston Magazine

Another caricature for the ThinkWeston magazine as part of the Horoscope page, she is a Libra, like me.

Will Smith Caricature

Billionaire Warren Buffett Caricature

3rd caricature of the month for ThinkWeston Magazine

Gloria Estefan Caricature

Another caricature for the Think Weston Magazine, coming out at the end of the month.

commission caricature

Fergie

Fergie, done last year.

Jack Black Caricature

This is a caricature for the Think Weston Magazine where I freelance, every month I will be doing 3 caricatures of celebrities for the horoscope page, here's one for next month, jack Black with his signature expression

Meryl Streep_in The Devil Wears Prada caricature

After a few months not posting any work I finally post my newest piece, I have been very busy in the last few months, I moved to a different county, and I studied web design, I recently landed a couple of freelance illustration gigs, and I will be sharing the work later, thanks for visiting and send comments:
my new email address is ddtdaman97@yahoo.com

Vin Diesel_Distortrait

Vin Diesel

Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney...

The Hulk with Color

Could not help but color it a bit, still trying a limited palette

Hulk Hogan Knows Jack

I spent about an hour working on this caricature, I'm quite happy with the results, I think I'm going to push myself to work monochromatic or with a very limited palette, anyway, comments please!

Barack Work In Progress

As is his administration, a work in progress, I am planning to ad Michelle in here too but I have a lot of ideas cooking.

Barack Obama Sketch

Here's the quick sketch I did for the Michele| Barack Caricature I'm working on

Michelle Obama and Dr House

No, no relationship whatsoever, these are just the last caricatures I'm working on now, I am trying to refine and define my style and to use more and more all the capabilities Photoshop bring to accomplish our art, I have been playing with layers and layer modes as well as some new brushes that I have created as well as playing with levels, noise etc, My goal is to render paintings that have depth, kind of like 3d... you will say well, why don't you learn 3d programs!, well I have tried especially with Zbrush, but it takes too long to learn and to create a painting, the results are not the same, it's more like sculpture and I love painting.. so anyways I hop you enjoy these two works in progress

Dwayne Johnson "The Rock"

well another caricature for my collection, this one I did it in 1 day, well about 5 hours of work, and I didn't sketch it on paper as I usually do first. 100% digital

My Name Is Earl Group Caricature

It is hard to try to finish a painting when you don't have a deadline, so I have been working on this caricature for over 3 mos already but I wanted to post what I have done so far, I work on it every once in a while, so I'll finish one day, hopefully before they cancel the show, although I think it'll be on air for a long time, I love it!

My name is earl...work in progress

I'll be posting details of the "My name is Earl" group caricature I'm working on. Here's yet two of the 4 characters I will to ad to this painting, I am working on the characters in separate files then ad them in and adjust their position based on a couple of thumbnails sketches I developed earlier.

Detail from Earl

The "Earl" caricature I'm working on now, I wanted to share this one as I work on it, I have spent an enormous amount of time on the hair, because his hair has personality and I want to capture that.

Latest caricatures (details)

Details of the caricatures I've been working on lately, I will try to do full body caricatures as much as I can because as a friend of mine said " the world doesn't stop in the head".
So here's Dr. House

Tori Spelling_Dunce

This is a postcard I designed for a theater company in Philly.

Salma Hayek_Distortrait

First Caricature of 2009, Done MAD style, or Comic style, I love the style, might do a couple of pieces like this one in the near future,

Penelope Cruz

Here's a caricature I did recently of Spanish actress, Penelope Cruz

More...

Latest Personal Work

Here are a few of my latest Digital Caricatures or Distortraits as I call them,
as you may notice some are not finished, but I wanted to share them now, I hope you'll get inspire and motivated.

more new paintings

Sylvester Stallone Not finished yet

New work

Here are two of the paintings I've been working for the past week, I hope they inspire you to create beautiful art. In these times of depression Art is a great escape..
you can e-mail me any questions or suggest anything... or hire me for your next project!!
ddelat@hotmail.com

Hi,
Here's a portrait I did to practice, although what I really like are caricatures, here I didn't exaggerated anything, I sketched away in photoshop without stopping for 1 hour, just to see what I could do in that time, and I never checked once the resemblance, instead I concentrated merely in the lines and spaces in between them and the values, it is easier if you convert the photo in grayscale to sketch with values.