Bob Row's thread. Updated pg.15: 20 years in 3 minutes

[Bob Row]

Tried to mix wet and dry watercolors to manage shades.

[D Akey]

Ah, caricaturists have to love the famous and infamous who looked so unique. Mustache like Saddam, beard like Castro, nose like Prince Charles, eyebrows like Nixon, wild hair like Einstein. . . I mean, these characters just beg to be drawn. . . and quartered sometimes too, or at least lampooned.

Nice image.

[Bob Row]

Mmmhh...D Akey, I'm starting to see this frankestenian guy. It's a temptation to do his caricature.

[Jasminek]

I like your works, they are quite expressive, very well done.!

[Bob Row]

For an article on Dilma Roussef, candidate to succeed Brazil president Lula Da Silva, suspected of leftist leaning. A bit progress in managing the watercolors, I think.

[justjean]

Great work

[Caesar]

No doubt You're a mastyer caricaturist and watercolour/ felt pen!

[Lima]

Bob, surely you're aware of what is happening here, but I can assure you that is even worse. Your cartoon is very good and like any cartoon speaks for itself. Your watercolor technique is very good.

[Bob Row]

This one is for an article against the collectivist ethos in the Web 2.0 as in Wikipedia, Google indexing by popularity, etcetera.

I tried a new approach to the watercolors after a while.
As always, my main concern is to find a fast way to do a complete illo with a loose look.
This time I choose to start painting a base color with chalk, then painted over with dry WC, switching the thinner percentage, so to build up from light to dark color.
Dry WC allows me even to do the reverse way in those too heavy areas in need of a lighter touch.
Glitter for the public in the BG and wet palette knife over the dry WC stains in the sky. Thanks for your comments.


Then a glimpse of my simple layers arrangement (sketch, inking, subject, background)

[Bob Row]

I tried my hand after a while.

Juan Manuel Santos got elected president of Colombia last week.

Hector Timerman was appointed FM of Argentina. A screen grab to show the final stage and the references. I did a simple Levels tweak in the Accorn free app for Mac afterwards.

In my humble opinion, I think I figured out the watercolors engine at last (at least to suit my style).