The Roadside Artist

Portrait slash caricature quick sketch of American Idol’s Sanjaya sans mohawk hairdo. Maybe I’ll do that some other time. Keeping up with my charcoal work, this portrait sketch walks the line between portrait and caricature. Yes, I know his singing was…well, sub par? And many people wanted him gone a long time ago. But he was still the most interesting character.

I followed my policy, “no erasing, no repeats” - if were doing a formal portrait, I’d do many revisions, but this is the quick and dirty style of a special event/county fair artist. Because of this freeform, quick open style, this work of art falls somewhere in the continuum between a portrait drawing and a caricature sketch.

And that is just fine, as far as I’m concerned.

Tags: Caricature, Portraits