ROY ORBISON

......or 'The Big O' as he was otherwise known in his day........

WOLVERINE

SAMUEL BECKETT

Here's another famous birthday that was celebrated recently. The Irish writer and poet, Samuel Beckett.

PETE DOHERTY

DAVE GAHAN

Been a fan of Depeche Mode for years, ever since the days when writing your favorite band on your schoolbag was a cool thing to do.
They've a new album out this week which will be added to my collection before long..........

'El Niño' (work in progress)

The season is drawing to a close and Liverpool are the closest they've been to winning the League in 19 painful years.
Torres is on fire at the moment and if he keeps scoring the way he is right now, we're definitely in with a good shout!! This being 'quietly confident' lark is hard work!!

WATCHMEN

I rarely do these types of drawings anymore as I don't really feel that copying directly from a photo or movie still does much to improve my drawing skills.
I still enjoy doing them nonetheless. This is based on a still taken from the 'Watchmen' movie. I've not seen it yet but I read the novel way back when I was a comic book nerd.
This one took about an hour in Photoshop.

WEDDING INVITE

Here's another wedding invitation recently completed.

GEORGE COSTANZA

Thought I'd continue the Seinfeld theme and draw his close friend and accomplice, George. He's neurotic, self-loathing, insincere, insecure, dishonest and a coward with no redeeming qualities......maybe that's why I like him so much!!

JERRY SEINFELD

This guy is one of my absolute heroes.
For eight years and 175 episodes, he co-wrote and starred in what must be still to this day, one of the best and funniest sit-coms of all time. That would be 'Seinfeld' of course.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Quick sketch of the by no means unattractive Hollywood actress.

Update: 4/4/09

ALAN SHEARER

He's either been offered a phenomonal amount of money or he's run out of bland comments as a pundit on 'Match of the Day', but Alan Shearer has shocked us all by taking the manager's job at Newcastle FC. He's such a legend up there which makes his decision even more baffling. If he fails to keep The Magpies in the Premiership, he's placing that legendary status in jeopardy, all for the sake of romanticism.
Personally, I don't think he's gonna pull it off. Newcastle are in freefall at the moment and the only hope they have is if the teams around them start playing even worse than they have been up to now.........yeah right.

KARL PILKINGTON

Whether you look upon him as Ricky Gervais's muse or the man who makes Ricky Gervais look funny, there's no mistaking Karl Pilkington's genius.
If you've not heard of him or seen him, just 'YouTube' him or download one of the hilarious podcasts. Pure comedy gold!!

Update 30/3/09:

GIFT COMMISSION

Here's a recent commissioned gift caricature completed for a birthday present last week. I was reliably informed that it went down a storm!!

DIANA ROSS

Here's a sketch of the first lady of Mowtown, Diana Ross who turns 65 this week.

STEVE MCQUEEN

The caricature artist extraordinaire, Jan Op De Beeck has recently started a 'Happy Birthday' thread over on the NCN forum.
It's a great way to get to draw celebrities who you would never usually consider as subjects for caricatures.
Today's celebrity birthday is Steve McQueen who would have been 79 today.

WEDDING INVITATION

Here's a wedding invitation I did recently for a couple of friends of mine, Jill and Paul, who tied the knot a few weeks ago.
As if planning a wedding wasn't stressful enough, they had the added stress of the wedding venue going into receivership two months before the big day which left them with a race against the clock to book an alternate venue. To their credit, they managed to secure a booking in another venue for the same date and it turned out to be a brilliant wedding!!

BRUCE WILLIS

Here's Bruce Willis in the iconic role as the one man public avenger, John McClane from the 'Die Hard' trilogy. Yes, I know there were officially four Die Hard movies but I have no idea what the term is so I'm sticking with 'trilogy'.
He's 54 years old this week so Yipee Kay Ay Brucie!!!

Man Utd 1 - Liverpool 4

Even if Liverpool don't win the league this season, beating Man Ure 4-1 at Old Trafford has got to be up here with the best moments in the club's history.
I listened to the entire match on the radio and was on the edge of my seat for the whole thing. Who needs Sky Sports???
COME ON!!!!!!

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Often, after I draw a famous person, I read up about them and look for some interesting facts or bits of info that I can bore my poor unfortunate friends with. There are far too many about Einstein to mention but one that stands out for me is that at the age of 15, he failed his University entrance exam. Not sure how true that actually is but it makes me feel so much better knowing that....