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January 27, 2011

Drawing of the Day 1/27/11

Filed under: Artwork — Ryan Klemek @ 6:34 pm

This is a figure drawing I did in a class at the Museum School

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January 26, 2011

Drawing of the Day 1/26/11

Filed under: Artwork — Ryan Klemek @ 5:41 pm

I did this drawing while working at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. I combined the American Indian from the sculpture in front of the MFA with the rhino in front of the school. Then I played around with a color overlay in Photoshop.

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January 25, 2011

Drawing of the Day 1/25/11

Filed under: Artwork — Ryan Klemek @ 5:33 pm

I don’t remember why I did this.

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January 24, 2011

Drawing of the Day 1/24/11

Filed under: Artwork — Ryan Klemek @ 6:27 pm

This was a drawing I did back in high school as part of my application to RISD. They require all applicants to draw a bicycle in graphite on 18 x 24″ paper.

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January 23, 2011

Drawing of the Day 1/23/11

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: Kaiju Big Battel — Ryan Klemek @ 3:58 pm

Here’s a costume I designed for Kaiju Big Battel called Revenge of the Duck. The suit never got made.

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January 22, 2011

Drawing of the Day 1/22/11

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: caricature, President Obama — Ryan Klemek @ 8:02 am

Here’s a caricature of The Prez I did using a Wacom tablet in Adobe Illustrator:

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January 21, 2011

Drawing of the Day 1/21/11

Filed under: Artwork — Ryan Klemek @ 9:19 am

Look, he’s wearing a turtleneck for some reason.

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August 29, 2010

Angelina Jolie vs. A Basket of Kittens finished!

Filed under: Artwork — Tags: Angelina Jolie — Ryan Klemek @ 5:39 pm

It took me longer than I wanted to, and there are probably things I would still fix. Sometimes you just have to stop and say it’s finished, though. Otherwise you could wind up working on a painting forever. Anyway, here it is:

I am still trying to figure out if it is a good likeness. I didn’t paint from any one photo of Jolie, thinking it would be more original to use a bunch of different reference. Plus there was no photo of her in the exact right pose. I think the likeness looks better when you see a detail:

The gloves, basket, bow and body are mostly painted from imagination. Here is a detail of 2 of the kitties:

This falling kittie is my wife’s favorite part of the painting:

I plan to make this painting available for sale. I looked into the legal implications of selling artwork featuring celebrity likenesses, and I think I’ll be OK. Especially since the face can’t be traced back to any particular copyrighted photograph.

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