Tom richmond

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

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…

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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.

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

I’ve had a few people email me about my upcoming new Doctor Who print to urge me not to use the original sketch I did of twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi: …because the image of the Doctor jamming on a guitar in rocker clothes is sure to be the definitive image of this incarnation of Doctor Who. I agree and had planned to redo my Capaldi caricature. Well, here’s the sketch and, yes, it’s available to purchase in the studio store!

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…

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Here’s my sketch of John Krasinski. John has a long, narrow face shape but a wide and rounded jaw area. Between that shape, his beard, and a bit of an underbite, he looks like he has “chipmunk cheeks” (a term meaning it looks like you have filled the cavities between your teeth and the inside of your mouth with food). He also has a pretty big nose, but mostly because it is very flat and wide between the nostrils, not that is is bulky. Finally, he has prominent ears.