John Wayne Caricature Work In Progress Photos

Here I'm just adding more detail with colored pencils. The desert background started to come into focus at this time.

Here I started using colored pencils and acrylic paint applied a little more opaquely to move the image along. Notice I reversed the value of his vest and his shirt. I decided I wanted the vest and hat to end up being about the same color and the shirt had to be a classic red one. I also eliminated about 2 inches of the sky making the composition more squat. Not doing the sunset just made that area dead space.

At this time, I was just make more changes and adjustments. I changed my mind on the sunset type sky and decided to go with day time setting. This helped with the overall value range in the composition.

I then used more acrylic washes to establish values. At this point, I kept it mostly monochromatic to help visual the value placement.

Here is the first step to my John Wayne piece. After I transfered the drawing to a piece of illustration board, I applied a warm wash of orange.