2007/07/31

Reminiscing Silence



Back in the early '90's I had the fantastic opportunity to work with Carl Fullerton and Neal Martz (actually Neal's an old childhood friend) on several films. Both Carl and Neal apprenticed with the one and only make-up master Dick Smith before venturing out on their own. Probably the most memorable of the films was Jonathan Demme's "Silence of the Lambs". Carl had asked me to visualize in sketches some of the special make-up concepts for the film. Kristi Zea, the films production designer had images of Sir Francis Bacon's paintings in mind for what was called the "Shot from Hell".





I apologize for the graphic nature of most of these...even Demme thought they were too brutal! In fact, from what I've heard, when the sketches were being archived at The Museum of Moving Image an employee admitted to becoming physically ill.








After the visual for the "Shot from Hell" was agreed on a full life cast was done of Chuck Napier who played Lt. Boyle. Actually only his head and hands were done. The weight of the alginate and plaster and the heat it generates was really too much for Chuck so a younger actor was brought in for the body. Two full body's were created in Carl's shop and Neal applied make-up and paint on set for the shot.







It was unfortunate that Carl and Neal's work wasn't recognized for an Academy Award since film won just about all the awards that year...they did win the 1991 Saturn Award though!!

This was also a quick caricature I did of Demme that is in one of my old sketchbooks.

2007/07/28

Tom Cruise


Sketch of Tom Cruise for the "Caricature Challenge" blog.

2007/07/19

I lived on the Moon


A beautiful little film clip created by animator Yannick Puig which I originally found on the FABULIST blog. Enjoy!!

2007/07/15

NCN again



This is a caricature of Ron Kantrowitz a member of NCN and owner of Mugshotz Online a party caricature company located in the Pittsburgh, PA area. It's a cartoony style that I haven't played with in awhile...a quick sketch scanned into photoshop and digitally painted

2007/07/04

Steve Jobs


Did a sketch of the "iBoss" tonight and experimented with custom wet media brushes in Photoshop to add some color. I think Painter probably would have been a better choice for this but I'm still a bit overwhelmed by the software!

2007/07/01

John Locke / Lost


Diego "DiLuc" Lucia runs a monthly Caricature Challenge on his site. Terry O'Quinn who plays John Locke on Lost is this month's featured subject. I think I will also do a digital paint of this one when I get a chance.
BTW - I hope you're enjoying the "Radio" section on the blog...I'll be updating weekly with my iPod selections!