{"id":2716,"date":"2011-01-26T20:51:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T00:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2011-03-14T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T19:55:21","slug":"portrait-night-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2716","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 1\/25 (Keith Richards)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve likely mentioned before, I’m not a great caricaturist–but the only way to get better is to try, try, try, right? So, to that end I’m going to try to do a (quick) caricature\/portrait a week. As an attempt to motivate myself to actually do<\/em> this every week, I’m going to try to post my completed drawing each week to my Twitter feed<\/a> with a #portraitnight hashtag. My first attempt was Keith Richards. For such an iconic figure, I found Keith surprisingly-difficult to capture visually. I think it’s because I started out trying to draw the young, 60s Keith, not the old, grizzled Keith with the age-exaggerated features. I eventually did a mid-era Keith ’cause it was just plain easier to to draw:\"\"<\/a>For what it’s worth, here’s the original drawing from my sketchbook, done in my usual manner with iterations of light blue, orange, red, B pencil, and finally brush pen:\"\"<\/a>When I start coloring I really don’t worry much about what actual hues I’m using; I select a starting color almost at random. What I think about more is the the light\/dark and hot\/cool relationships. Once it’s colored, I begin monkeying around with the hue and saturation via Photoshop’s Image–>Adjustments–>Hue\/Saturation sliders. Here’s how I originally colored Keith prior to that:<\/p>\n

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As I’ve likely mentioned before, I’m not a great caricaturist–but the only way to get better is to try, try, try, right? So, to that end I’m going to try to do a (quick) caricature\/portrait a week. As an attempt to motivate myself to actually do this every week, I’m going to try to post … <\/p>\n

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