Sketching Celebrities

It's probably fair to say that each of us could define the word "celebrity" a bit differently.

For myself -for the time being- I'm going to define a celebrity as being a person who has gained a rather widespread notoriety for having a productive and/or entertaining skill, which they use to say things of artistic & cultural value.

No, there is no way to quantify this.

This means that my definition of celebrity is, in practice, just famous & kinda famous people that I like.

I've been keeping a sketchbook of my bizarre little doodles of celebrities for some time now (I've been ignoring said sketchbook for most of that time), and I want to start showing some of those sketches to you... the three people who ever see this blog.

We'll start with the first in the book; Tom Waits (looking rather more like John Steinbeck)

And, hell, why not, a watercolor sketch of Ornette Coleman

Bonus Fun Time

YouTube is the fucking Devil. Let's just be clear on that, now.

Sure, it's not as sinister as "social networking" sites, but it's got a greater universal appeal, and it combines the glory of the internet's One True Purpose (everything at your fingertips, at all times), with an unparalleled capacity for feeding the two great human weaknesses for mind-numbing nonsense & anonymous cruelty.

That said, it gives people an outlet for some really funny ideas, however pointless. In the following video someone handed over a combination of two of my all-time favorite monsters, Cookie Monster, and Tom Waits:

Tom For The Barron

Two quick paintings of Tom Waits I did for Barron Storey:

  

I thought that the first came out looking rather more like Mark Sandman (front man for Morphine), but I ran with it.

Both are colored ink on watercolor paper.