Final Obama Painting

Well this painting for schoolism.com is finally done on my end I have been tweaking it and spending alot of time on it! I am always open for comments or suggestions to improve it. I know Jason Seiler is a great teacher and friend, and I will never forget my experiences I have had on the www.Schoolism.com and JS class! If anyone wants to sign up please let them know I referred you ( I receive discounts towards other classes) I really want to take Steven Silvers Character Animation classes, and all of the classes if I could! I really recommend this Class with Jason, and I now really feel more confident to send out promo pieces from my work made from this course after I look back at the recommended changes and do some of them, but ultimately I have grown as my own artist and really believe I have learned alot from this experience!

New updated Sketch of Obama

I decided to use this face of Obama for my Final Illustration on Schoolism. The article is file:///Users/lars/Desktop/schoolism%237/Barack%20Obama%20and%20the%20oil%20s whta I am basing my Illustration on or in the Rolling Stones Magazine I think this is the best one to base my Caricature Illustration from and maybe use the Rolling Stone logo with text etc.

schoolism assignment #7

Schoolism #7

I had a hard time on this assignment, and not to thrilled to draw Obama, but I knew It is necessary for my strength of my portfolio. I want to do more studies of Obama, especially the really grumpy look with him in the glasses. I decided to have him in a situation like maybe:

1) At the beach standing at the beach with a old greasy BP sign and his feet covered in oil. Maybe make him look really big with small people trying to tie him down. He could be in a beach chair and the view him could be in a frog view with his feet right us. or eagle view looking down at him?

2) Maybe illustrate him squeezing the BP logo and having Oil dripping out with Moneyflowing away?

3) A Very moody and and somber look at the catastrophy with a slight light on the side of Obamas Face and body from the reflexion from the explosion of the Oil rig being shown behind him. Having dead fish and other items in the water. and the other half a tourist sunny and joyful look of the beach.

Just a few of the ideas, to help me figure out which one you think would be an effective Illustration. I once again had a great time with the citizens, especially erica which I started in water color and then scanned in and touched up in photoshop. I getting more used to drawing in sketchbookpro with my Brach3/4.jpg.  Didn't realize I was going to have such an hard time capturing Obama, but I really like the surprised look of Obama in obamasketch4web.jpg.  look in , and the more great angles in Obamasketch3web.jpg.

Wifes B-day and later drew our Obama President

I have had a busy weekend, which started me off with on Saturday morning cooked breakfast for our men's Bibles study. Then I went to Freedom Square to chef from 10-5pm, and then I had to run of to the Tropical stadium for a volenteer event to draw Caricatures for a wine tasting and auction for the Abilities Foundation! Thank You again Frankie Delushia from Chi Chi rodrigas Golf academy! That next morning on Sunday me and my great and wonderful family was of to Grace Christian Fellowship for a really great day at church, with our verse by verse study in the book of Esther! Every first Sunday I am at the St Pete Pier from 1-4pm, which I felt this day was a very entertaining event! My wifes 41st. Birthday is also today and we had some great Steak, and fish! Later that evening I started Practicing President Obama to be featured in my synopsis for my "hopefully" new "How to draw Caricatures from a photo book" that I have been approuched by a publishing agent in the UK "Quatro". Please pray for me that I will find a way to pull this off and represent the Caricature artist community in the most accurate and educational way possible!