Nothing but cheeks

It’s been a while since I did any celebrity caricatures so I think I might have had a little too much fun with this one of Jay Leno. I’ve been working on a more ‘painterly’ look and have had fun getting away from inked lines. This was done entirely in photoshop (a little [...]

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Come on baby, light my fire….

I just finished my new portfolio/blog for my illustrations. I’ll keep my sketches here and put more of the illustration work at joshferrin.com. This familiar fellow is from that site and I thought I would post a larger version of him here. I’ve always wanted a rocket pack but I doubt the [...]

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More tourists

Here are the other two tourists I did for a Business section story. I have a nasty habit of doing self-portraits in a lot of my stuff but I don’t think anyone has ever noticed.

The original sketch

Stingy business lady

Original sketch

Final illustration.

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Tourists

Here’s a sneak-peak at an illustration that we will be running this weekend on tourists in Reno. The idea was to have a picture of the average tourist, and this is what we came up with.

As I said before, I love drawing old people and assume you like to look at drawings of them so, [...]

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Misc. Illustrations

While visiting a library in Cathedral City (CA) I saw a massive painting of a dark, cloudy landscape that stuck in my mind. I was into memory sketching at the time so I went home and tried to recreate the painting from memory. This is what I ended up with.
A wax pencil drawing [...]

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