Practice Sketches & Doodles

I like to practice drawing faces from photographs and from my imagination. The faces from the first sketch page is from the book 1000 Families by Uwe Ommer. Can you tell which one was made up from my imagination. The second sketch page are fun doodles that I colored with markers.

Win a caricature by me

I am having a contest to win a caricature by myself. In Asheville's Mountain Express newspaper I placed the following ad. If you join my fan page at Brian Vasilik Illustration & Design you could win a caricature. On April 10th I will choose a random fan. Good Luck!

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Digital Caricatures

These gift caricatures were hand drawn and colored on my computer using Photoshop. They look simple but take from 2 to 3 hours to create. I had to research the themes, sketch ideas, draw the cartoon faces and bodies, get approvals from the client, make changes and color them. A lot of work.

Friends for Life Radiothon

This past Friday and Saturday I donated my time by drawing caricatures for the Mission Children's Hospital 2nd annual Friends for Life Radiothon. It was held at the Asheville Mall and I also helped out last year.

You can learn about the event here.

Valentine's Weekend Caricatures

A Little Less Caricature

Here is a caricature commission where the client decided to have me illustrate a more conventional portrait. My first sketch I pushed the features resulting in an more exaggerated likeness. It was decided to go for a more milder caricature as you can see in the final which was done with a quill pen and colored pencils.

Quick Party Caricatures

Caricatures from a recent party.

Foo Fighters

Frontman and songwriter Dave Grohl. I think I made him look fat in his caricature. Ha. Need to give him another try.

Black & White Retirement Caricature

Here is a example of one of my black and white caricature gifts for someone who is retiring. The final size is 11" by 14". Drawn with waterproof Indian ink on Arches watercolor paper with some washes on it. I included my initial sketches and photo reference.

New Live Caricatures for 2010

Happy new year everyone. I was busy spending time with family during the holiday. Here are some of my first drawings for 2010.

My Nephews

Over the holidays I drew my nephews.

Girl with Green Hat

Character design practice. I scanned the sketch into Corel Painter were it was rendered.

The Top 10 Most Interesting Faces of 2009

The International Society of Caricature Artists assembled this list.

My Sketches

Here are some various practice sketching from photographs in books and other artist's work.

This page has watercolor, crayon, ballpoint pen, pencil and ink. Drew the faces from Robert Beverly Hale's book "Master Class in Figure Drawing" and James Jean's book "Process Recess vol.3". 11" by 15"

Pencil sketches from the "Illustration" magazine issue #25. 11" by 13"

Ballpoint pen sketches from the "American Photobooth" by Nakki Goranin. 9.5" by 12"

80th Birthday Caricature

I hope I look this good when I turn 80 years old! This is a gift caricature where I wanted its style to reflect the dapper person. So I did not overly exaggerate it and went for an editorial style. The 11" by 14" illustration was done with PITT artist pens, water color washes and Prisamacolor Col-Erase pencils.

I was thinking about the great work of David Levine while drawing the cross hatching.

The client sent me a note saying " AWESOME job!!! We love it, it reflects very well his personality... You are so talented! Thank you!"