Elvis Costello, Jason Seiler (2D)

[casper]

Oh~ I like this caricarture style! great work. this is like Sebastian Kruger star style!

[PapaNinja]

Great caricature ... his face is amazing ^^
Great subject too ^^

[bakiyaraj]

wonderful super colour good job man ............................

[pawest]

good work!

[lordbiernac]

man, you're insane!!! ;) it's awesome

[Bif]

Very cool! I really dig how you handles the glasses and the beard fuzz.

[linainverse23]

wow, we're almost going picasso here. (haha). nice work, especially with the short beard and glasses (nice glazing for the glass). bottom portions does feel a little weird since it becomes very rough, especially the hand. I'm sure it was intended, but, for me personally, it feels a little weird, probably because the difference is very big. nice color pallette used here. overall, it's very nice. good job.

[gsbehera]

WOW, great hold on expression....:)

[waheednasir]

very well done.

:).

[moonchild]

that's great colors are excellent and the brushes too!!:)

i love the glasses

[RobertoOrtiz]

Great Image!
Plugged!
-R

[Vierluz]

Wonderful!

[majid-smiley]

impressive ! i love it !

[vikramvr]

Beautiful painting, awesome colours. Well deserved front page.. :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[Iguanaman]

I assume this was the reference photo?
http://ginavivinetto.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/elviscostello_01.jpg

[Jason-Seiler]

Thank you everyone for your comments, this paintng was just for fun, a time for me to paint what I wanted and how I wanted. Most the work I do is for publication and I'm painting someone elses idea. I love painting with oils and acrylics so when painting digitally I'm trying to paint in the same way that I would traditionally . . . it's been taking me a while to develop this technique.

And yes this is the photo reference that I used for my painting, you can see how different the colors and values are from my final work. I prefer more of a tonal look, something with more mood and less color. I rarely ever use just one photo when I paint someone, I usually have at least 5 references of the person, and for the poses, I set up my own lighting and take my own photo reference. Since this piece was just for myself I went with the one reference and then created my color palette and mood. I did this first by doing a couple small and simple color sketches or studies.

As for the comment made about the hand being blurry, this was intentional and something that for me is very real. To see what I'm saying, take a couple minutes to look at the photo reference that was posted. Focus your eyes on the rim of his glasses and without taking your eyes off his glasses try to see what his hand and the rest of the guitar look like. This puts the focus on what is important as well as where the viewer should look . . . in reality when we're looking or focusing on one thing, surounding objects will appear blurry or out of focus . . . . I wanted to capture that in a more painterly way. Also you'll notice the difference between values in the relationship between the hand and face comparing my painting to the photo reference. Notice in the photo that the values in his hand is very similar to the valiues and lighting in his face. I did what I did with the hand so it wouldn't compete with what I found interesting about his face.

Thanks again for your comments!

[casper]

Hey, Jason, your caricature is really terrific!
I like your style, they are perfect.
I have some work, they is here (http://www.fantasy-studio.com/new/illu2.html), I hope to become a friend with you, very much. :beer:

[mfiorilli]

Simply FANTASTIC, The face is sublime... i LOVE :love:

[visionmaster2]

1rst time i put 5 stars.
Not only for your image, but for your amazing porfolio :bowdown:


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[LuckyBug]

Amazing,i really like your style :)

[phoenix]

Really sweet work man .


regards

[Matasorapit]

Another awesome work. Great stuff.

[KeithLarkin]

Good job on this, i love the style.

[xtrm3d]

yes tottaly agree ..very well deserved front page ...
hope that you would get an award for this one

[Jason-Seiler]

Thank you all so much for your comments! I've tried to post more but not sure how to get them on the forums? I believe they're in my portfolio though? I think because I tried to upload a bunch at a time it was too much? Maybe I can try again after waiting a while?

Casper, I checked out your site . . . very cool work, nice caricature work too!
--Jason

[Quadart]

Excellent work, as usual.

Do you, or have you ever used Corel Painter?
With your traditional painting background, I’m curious to know what you might think about that app.

Impressive blog, also.

[digital-bobert]

awesome stuff Jason! Congrats on the plug and award!!

[logante]

Amazing!Great Style!:scream:

[frogchild]

There is some realy nice stuff going on in this image.


nice composition



nice colors.




nice work!

[far]

wow, amazing work, 5 * :)

[keenerbean]

Really nice execution. When I saw the thumbnail I said "Hey, Elvis Costello!" so, definitely recognizable. My wife glanced over and was a tad more picky. She thought the face was off. I argued and found the source image which I had to admit was much shorter in the face. The large, long jaw seems like a bit of a random license to take with his features. Personally, I would have liked to see you go the opposite way with it. Still, beautiful image.

[Ancient-Pig]

Looking at the thumbnail on the front page, I knew who that was right away :)

Awesome job!

[Ammarkk]

Amazing work.

[zlhu420]

God ! I like to draw your ! cool ! 5star :bounce:

[hoskins78]

This really is fantastic! Amazing charicature and style :)

[Paul4wood]

Terrific caricature! :thumbsup:

[firstsingle]

Now, that's just plain beautiful!!

Period!!

[Jason-Seiler]

Thank you all so much for your comments, I'm flattered . . . very honored to have gotten a CG Choice award . . . thank you.

Keenerbean . . . If I had to do it all over again I'd draw him the same way . . . there are different ways to go about drawing someone, but it's also about what I as an artist want to say . . . . . . and I feel I said enough. Being picky is fine with me and I appreciate honesty, so thank you . . .
--Jason

[rownd]

very nice!

[3mm]

Freaking awesome work,i love it,remind me of works of Kruger

[flaviomonteiro]

your works are always very good, but and about portraits(no caricatures) and landscapes, do you like? or did you get success with this style and is satisfied?

[Gord-MacDonald]

Brilliant

5 stars

[keenerbean]

Keenerbean . . . If I had to do it all over again I'd draw him the same way . . . there are different ways to go about drawing someone, but it's also about what I as an artist want to say . . . . . . and I feel I said enough. Being picky is fine with me and I appreciate honesty, so thank you . . .
--Jason

Yeah, I hear you. Well stated. I checked out the rest of your work and was really impressed. I'd love to see what you could do in 3D if you ever went that direction!

[streetsy]

Awesome!!!

[Branko]

Super cool, I really appreciate the recklessness with the rest of the piece and then the beautiful finality of the face. Congrats man, definitely deserving of the praise.

[direndra]

nice one...!!" :thumbsup:

[NR43]

Awesome singer/songwriter (did you know he even writes classical music?)
Awesome portrait

[sketchguy]

Beautiful work Jason!

Elvis Costello is my all-time favourite singer/songwriter. Nice to see a worthy caricature of him.

Cheers!

[Jason-Seiler]

Yeah, I hear you. Well stated. I checked out the rest of your work and was really impressed. I'd love to see what you could do in 3D if you ever went that direction!

That would be fun to try . . . . I don't have the software for that kind of work, but I have thought about messing witht that. My main passion though is painting in oils and acrylics . . . I'm currently working on a group of very large oil paintings.

[Jason-Seiler]

your works are always very good, but and about portraits(no caricatures) and landscapes, do you like? or did you get success with this style and is satisfied?



First I'd like to say thank you to those who commented recently who I haven't responded to. Thank you much for your comments, I'm glad that Costello fan's approve!

As to the question above, I do realistic portraits as well, but for me there's more meaning if I put my own spin on the portrait and in some instances I still exaggerate a bit. This for me improves the likeness. I actually consider myself a portrait artist rather than a caricaturist . . . I also do some landscape work as well . . . but mostly from life, and they're quick studies done in oil.

[robriks]

I like the way you've achieved the brushstrokes. It looks very...non-CG.

[Rafel]

Fantastic!! Master piece, Congratulations, i love the way you exaggerate his face expression, i always wanted to make such work for Paco de lucia, now im inspired more to do it, he got amazing face expressions when he play, i love your piece 5 stars!!

[Raul-Reznek]

your work is fantastic. each caricature has strength and personality. congrats!

[nightwoodwolf]

beautiful work :thumbsup:

[suffibutt]

simply impressive,

[docky]

beautiful crazy man and crazy guitar

[maxvsneo]

very nice ... keep it up 5 star

[cgmodel77]

:p Later will look like you to develop like this, the pigment factory must go bankrupt.

[rawgon]

Superb painting!

[eray]

great work!!
love the style..

[HTN]

amazing amazing *****

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[Rodentchong]

i love it ~

[Syllo]

love the style, palette, composition... great job!

[miguelcouto]

Great work! Very well done, lot of details!

Miguel Couto

[victorllanos]

wonderfull! Yoe are so good! This work inspire me to work harder. The style of classic painting it´s so amazing!!

[Jason-Seiler]

I hate saying the same thing over and over, but thank you all so much! Your words are encouraging, inspires me to work even harder . . . so thank you.

[rcallicotte]

Wow. Great job. It's always mind-blowing to see things like this from someone using Photoshop.

[YCenbo]

Beautiful painting! like it.

[Moozy1]

Wow great composition!. You are easily the best Caricaturist I have seen, strangely realistic. Great work!.

[Roham]

unspeakable work.

[hansworks]

Really neatly done, Jason! 5 Stars!

[KIDI]

Beautiful image, i really like the lighting :)
5 starts

[hyy242607]

I like the style of the picture. And I just want to know about the story of the man...

[Imperial-Jade-Seal]

WOW,wonderful! i love it !

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