fao Caramel photography

Victor's hair colour for Aquababies photos - many thanks

tilt

in order to fully enjoy this image, please tilt your monitors 90 degrees
anti (counter) clockwise. thank you.

Black Love

missed a couple of days this week - bah.
quote taken from the Afghan Whigs - Black Love is a favourite album of mine.
hmm the posting format has changed. how do I insert a space here?
ah - like this.

  the angel is undoubtedly a Ted McKeever copy - I loved his Metropol and Transit graphic novels.

underground

the fact this is quite different to what's gone before leads me to conclude it's a copy of something.



This is definitely influenced by the great Ted McKeever.

the assassin strikes

emptiness

looks so familiar, musician maybe? damn - wish i'd written names on all of them!


i like the emptiness on this page

trio

busy today, so just one post.

what's the plural of femme fatale?

femmes fatale? femme fatales? femmes fatales?


growing old disgracefully. 16 years ago i was probably scornful - now? you go girls!


good time gal with a gun. mmmm.


Elisabeth Shue. an actress i used to like - i used wikipedia to find the name of a film of hers i was particularly fond of (Palmetto) and found she has a daughter named Stella Street - which will make fans of slightly left of centre '90s comedy chuckle.

ice t or nice tea?

a lot of these look like they were drawn very quickly. drawing is better than not drawing regardless of the outcome. (you should see some of the pages i've chosen not to upload!)


heaven...


...or hell? the choice is yours.


suburban gangsta


batman


not batman

cod vs gammon

interesting windows...

wedding rings and angels' wings

who would an angel be married to?




christian slater if i recall.


supergrass. not a great likeness, but i quite like the drawing nonetheless.


superman. looks very slightly like Picasso.

16 years ago - new book

1996 - book of angels. not sure why - the film, Prophecy, the comic book, Preacher maybe.
hardback sketchbook - 348 x 330 - odd shape.

the inside front cover - a lot in this book was drawn with Rotring calligraphy pens...


..or brush and (Rotring) ink.


copies of Gustav Klimt drawings.


makes me think of Nick Cave.


portrait of a (forgotten) politician


portrait of a playwright.
a lot of the portrait sketches are done by looking at the photograph, but not the drawing/sketchbook whilst most of the drawing is done. this technique is quite hit and miss, but can lead to some interesting results where things don't quite fit properly.


easter then, easter now.


no idea.


again, no idea. this is one of those 'blind' portraits I mentioned, though. hatching, shading and other embellishments are added after the basics are drawn.

book ends

the last few from this particular sketchbook:

unintentional symbolism. really.


nope. can't remember who this was. have no idea what propinquity means.


the internet says we swallow 6 spiders in our sleep in a lifetime. and three of these. that's why your breath stinks in the morning.


an exaggerated, distorted version of a photo of ... kim novak, maybe?


the last one. drawn on the inside back cover of the book. i was loving the pantone markers so much i just couldn't stop.

a vampire in the sun

never a good sign when you have to write the name of the subject on it, is it. Actually my wife recognised this ... thought she was a bit thin though.




a Cathal Coughlan lyric.
Ooh look - a man, alone in some ruins. Any symbolism was genuinely unintentional.


I know what you're thinking - 'it's Lily Allen again'. I'm not a Star Wars guy, so I dunno who this is. I like the way the portrait on the reverse page is bleeding through.


a man. shouting.


a vampire, in sunlight, holding up a crucifix. Huh?


get some sleep!