DIETER MEIER
Vector caricature of one of my favourites -
the frontman in the swiss electronic duo YELLO.
Dieter Meier (born 4 March 1945, Zurich)
is a Swiss musician and conceptual artist, who is best known for
being the front man in the electronic music group Yello,
which also includes music producer Boris Blank. He is a vocalist
and lyricist, as well as manager and producer of this music group.
NINA SIMONE
Vector caricature of an American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist,
arranger and civil rights activist.
SALVADOR DALI
Digital portrait of the most prominent Spanish surrealism painter.
DR JONAS BASANAVICIUS
Signatory of Independence of Lithuania on February 16, 1918.
JONAS BASANAVIČIUS (23 November 1851 in Ožkabaliai-16 February
1927 Wilno, Poland; now Vilnius, Lithuania) was an activist and proponent
of Lithuania's National Revival and founder of the first Lithuanian language
newspaper Aušra. He was one of the initiators and the Chairman of the Orga-
nizing Committee of the 1905 Congress of Lithuanians, the Great Seimas
of Vilnius. He was also a founder and chairman of the Lithuanian Scientific
Society (1907).As a member of the Council of Lithuania, he was a signatory
of the ACT OF INDEPENDENCE OF LITHUANIA on February 16, 1918.
Basanavicius is often given the unique informal honorific title of the "Patriarch
of the nation" for his contributions and help in re-establishing the Lithuanian state.
MARILYN MONROE
Digital caricature of famous American actress and sex symbol of all times.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Most famous psychological thriller film director
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899-29 April 1980)
was an English film director and producer. He pioneered many
techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres.
After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films
and early talkies, billed as England's best director, Hitchcock
moved to Hollywood in 1939.
ADRIEN BRODY
Caricature of a well known actor and his roles as Matador and Pianist.
Caricature of a well known American comic actor.
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an
American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for
his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently
stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".
Buster Keaton (his lifelong stage name) was recognized as the seventh-greatest
director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. In 1999, the American Film
Institute ranked Keaton the 21st-greatest male star of all time. Critic Roger Ebert
wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked
without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest
actor-director in the history of the movies."
Orson Welles stated that Keaton's The General is "the greatest comedy ever
made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever
made."A 2002 worldwide poll by Sight & Sound ranked Keaton's The
General as the 15th best film of all time. Three other Keaton films received
votes in the magazine's survey: Our Hospitality, Sherlock, Jr., and The Navigator.
GRETA GARBO
Work in Progress
MARLENE DIETRICH
Monochrome portrait of well known German-American high pro actress
and singer. Text is from amazingly superb song, performed by Marlene.
MARLENE DIETRICH
Portrait of iconic German-American high-profile actress and singer
Marlene Dietrich ( 27 December 1901–6 May 1992) was a German-American
actress and singer. Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by conti-
nually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the
1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as "Lola-Lola" in
her stardom and making her one of the highest-paid actresses of the era. Dietrich
became a U.S. citizen in 1939,[3] and throughout World War II she was a high-
profile frontline entertainer. Although she still made occasional films in the post-war
years, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a successful
ZACK DE LA ROCHA
Digital brush caricature of American singer and poet.
ZACARIAS MANUEL "ZACK" DE LA ROCHA
(born January 12, 1970)
American musician, poet, rapper and activist,best known as the
vocalist and lyricist of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE.
SERENA WILLIAMS
Caricature of professional American tennis player.
Painted caricature of an American painter expressionist.
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY
Russian Poet with his famous soviet passport.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Russian and
Soviet poet.He is among the foremost representatives of early-20th
century Russian Futurism.
GERARD DEPARDIEU
Caricature of famous OBELIX.
It's my view on his new Russian citizenship.
Caricature of famous actor as new Putin's matrioshka.
It's my view on his new Russian citizenship.
Young delinquent and wanderer in the past, Gérard Depardieu started his acting
career at the small traveling theatre "Cafe de la Gare", along with Patrick Dewaere
and Miou-Miou. After minor roles in cinema, at last, he got his chance in
in the French cinema and the actor's popularity grew enormously. Later, he diver-
sified his screen image and became the leading French actor of the 80s and 90s.
a number of awards at international film festivals. In 1996, he was distinguished
by the highest French title of "Chevalier du Légion d'Honneur".
NICK the BAD SEED
Vector caricature of Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave
(born 22 September 1957)
is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter,
composer and occasional film actor.
AL PACINO
Al Pacino as "Scarface" vector Illustration
Known for his forceful dramatic presentation, Al Pacino is most closely
associated with the roles of Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972)
trilogy, as well as Tony Montana of the legendary gangster film
ROBERT DE NIRO
Caricature of "Bobby" De Niro as Louis Cypher.
Vector illustration
Robert De Niro (born August 17, 1943)
is an American actor, director and producer.
VALDAS ADAMKUS
Caricature of the President of the Republic of Lithuania
Valdas Adamkus born in Kaunas, Lithuania; November 3, 1926)
was President of Lithuania from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2004 to 2009.
BJORK - H o m o g e n i c H u n t e r
Digital Illustration
Homogenic is the fourth studio album by Icelandic musician Björk, re-
leased in September 1997. Produced by Björk, Mark Bell, Guy Sigs-
worth, Howie B and Markus Dravs, it was released on One Little Indian
Records. The music of Homogenic was a new style for Björk, focusing
on similar sounding music combining electronic beats and string instru-
ments with songs in tribute to her native country Iceland. Homogenic was
originally to be produced in her home in London, but was later recorded
in Spain. Homogenic marked the first of several production collaborations
between Mark Bell and Björk, whom Björk would cite as a major influence
on her musical career. The album peaked at number twenty-eight on the
Billboard 200, and at number four on the UK Albums Chart. Five singles
were released from Homogenic: "Jóga", "Bachelorette", "Hunter",
"Alarm Call" and "All Is Full of Love". Homogenic was highly acclaimed
on its initial release and continues to be praised by critics, with Sal Cinquemani
of Slant Magazine stating that "if not the greatest electronic album of all time,
it's certainly the greatest of its decade".
LEMMY (Motorhead)
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Lemmy for me immediately was associated with a great Lucifer character from famous animated
feature "Cat in Boots"! This is one of my favourite animated film. So,I give you a mash up of
Lucifer becoming a Lemmy:) Because of his powerful magic,Lucifer was changing into many
different creatures and why not Lemmy?:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNuIZyfYM-o&feature=related
More of line art sketches on Lemmy inspired by Caricaturama 3000 challenge
Monica Bellucci
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Monica Anna Maria Bellucci, born 30 September 1964)
is an Italian actress and fashion model.
MORRISSEY
Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known as Morrissey,
is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the
1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths.
The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in
1987, and Morrissey began a solo career, making the top ten of the UK
Singles Chart on ten occasions. Widely regarded as an important
innovator in indie music, Morrissey has been described by music ma-
gazine NME as "one of the most influential artists ever," and The In-
dependent has stated "most pop stars have to be dead before they
reach the iconic status he has reached in his lifetime." Pitchfork Media
has called him "one of the most singular figures in Western popular
culture from the last twenty years."Morrissey's lyrics have been des-
cribed as "dramatic, bleak, funny vignettes about doomed relation-
ships, lonely nightclubs, the burden of the past and the prison of the
home." He is also noted for his unique baritone vocal style (though
he sometimes uses falsetto), his quiff haircut and his dynamic live
performances. His forthright, often contrarian opinions, especially
on the subject of race, have led to a number of media controversies,
and he has also attracted media attention for his advocacy of
vegetarianism and animal rights.
VINCENT PRICE
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Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993)
was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic
attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
HAYAO MYIAZAKI
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Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿 Miyazaki Hayao?, born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company. The success of Miyazaki's films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park and Robert Zemeckis; he has also been named one of the most influential people by Time magazine.
JEAN RENO
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Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez known as Jean Reno (French pronunciation:
born July 30, 1948, Casablanca) is a French-Spanish actor. Working in French,
English, Japanese, Spanish and Italian, he has appeared not only in numerous
successful Hollywood productions such as The Pink Panther (2006), Godzilla
(1998), The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, Ronin and Couples Retreat,
but also in European productions such as the French films Les Visiteurs (1993),
its sequel Les Visiteurs 2 (1998) and Léon (1994) along with the 2005 Italian
film The Tiger and the Snow.
CHRISTIAN BALE
Created this digital caricature illustration originally for
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Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor.
Best known for his roles in American films, Bale has starred in both big budget
Hollywood films and the smaller projects from independent producers and art hou-
ses. Bale first caught the public eye at the age of 13, when he was cast in the star-
ring role of Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987). He played an English
boy who is separated from his parents and subsequently finds himself lost in a Japa-
nese internment camp during World War II. He is also notable for his role as se-
rial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho (2000), and for portraying Bruce
Wayne/Batman in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight
(2008) and the upcoming finale The Dark Knight Rises (2012).In 2010, Bale por-
trayed Dicky Eklund in the biopic The Fighter. He received critical acclaim for his
role and won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Screen Actors
Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.
CHRISTIAN BALE
one of the stages of work in progress
TOM WAITS
"Bad As Me"
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949)
is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice,
described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bour-
bon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run
over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music
styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on
industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a
composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films inclu-
ding Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in the 1986 film Down
by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One
from the Heart. Lyrically, Waits' songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of
grotesque, often seedy characters and places—although he has also shown a penchant
for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent
songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known
through cover versions by more commercial artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by
Bruce Springsteen, "Ol' '55", performed by the Eagles, and "Downtown Train",
performed by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial
success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales
status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards
and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations.
In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
DEXTER MORGAN
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Dexter Morgan (né Moser) is a fictional character in a series of novels by
Jeff Lindsay, including Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004), Dearly Devoted
Dexter (2005), Dexter in the Dark (2007), Dexter by Design (2009), Dexter
Is Delicious (2010) and Double Dexter (2011). In 2006, the first novel was
adapted into the Showtime TV series Dexter and its companion web series
Dexter: Early Cuts.In both the novels and the TV series, Dexter is a forensic
blood spatter analyst who works for the fictitious Miami-Metro Police De-
partment; in his spare time, he is a serial killer who preys on other murderers
who have escaped the justice system. He follows an elaborate code of ethics
and procedures taught to him in childhood by his foster father, Harry Morgan
(which he refers to as "The Code" or "The Code of Harry"), which hinges
on two principles: Dexter can only kill people after finding evidence that they
are guilty of murder, and he must dispose of all evidence so he never gets caught.
The program's first season was largely based on the first novel, Darkly Dreaming
Dexter, but the following seasons veered away from the rest of the book series.
In the television program, Dexter is played by Michael C. Hall. He has received
rave reviews for his portrayal, both critically and popularly, and he won a Golden
Globe Award in 2009 for Best Actor in a Television Series or Drama for his
portrayal of Dexter Morgan in the fourth season.
RYRALIO DJ's
DJ from Lithuania "in house guru" - Sarunas Karalius
Diskžokėjaus karjerą pradėjęs dar praeitame tūkstantmetyje DJ Karalius
(Šarūnas Karalius) nusipelnė Lietuvos elektroninės muzikos pionieriaus vardo.
Būtent jis buvo tas žmogus, kurio dėka elektroninė muzika pradėjo skambėti
radijo stočių eteryje, visų pirma Kauno "Titanikoje" bei "Kauno Fonas".
Nuo 1995 m. jis su bendraminčiais pradėjo organizuoti legendinius šokių mu-
zikos vakarėlius Kauno "Pakalnės" kavinėje. Vėliau DJ Karalius aktyviai
įsijungė į žinomų šokių muzikos vakarėlių "Ore" veiklą, o šiandien jau yra
grojęs turbūt kiekviename Lietuvos klube.
JONAS MEKAS
Vector line art caricature
Jonas Mekas (Lithuanian pronunciation: [ˈjonɐs ˈmækɐs];
born December 24,1922) is a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer and
curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema.
His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America.
STING
Vector line art caricature
Sting (born Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner on 2 October 1951),
CBE, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist,activist, actor
and philanthropist. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter,
lead singer and bassist of the rock band The Police.Sting has varied his musical style
throughout his career, incorporating distinct elements of jazz, reggae, classical, new
age, and worldbeat into his music. As a solo musician and member of The Police,
Sting has received sixteen Grammy Awards for his work, receiving his first Grammy
for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, three Brit Awards winning Best
British Male in 1994, a Golden Globe, an Emmy Award, and several Oscar nominations
for Best Original Song. He is a member of both the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
RUSSELL CROWE
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Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is a New Zealander Australian actor,
film producer and musician.[6] He came to international attention for his
role as Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical
epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy
Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best
Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle
Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for Best Actor. Crowe
appeared as the tobacco firm whistle blower Jeffrey Wigand in the 1999
film The Insider, for which he received five awards as Best Actor and se-
ven nominations in the same category. In 2001, Crowe's portrayal of mathe-
matician and Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful
Mind brought him numerous awards, including an BAFTA Award for Best
Actor in a Leading Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor category
Motion Picture Drama and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding
Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. Crowe's other films include
L.A. Confidential (1997), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the
World (2003) Cinderella Man (2005), American Gangster (2007), 3:10 to
Yuma (2007) and Robin Hood (2010). Crowe's work has earned him seve-
ral accolades, including a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three
Academy Award nominations in a row (1999–2001), one Golden Globe
Award for Best Actor, one BAFTA, and an Academy Award. Due to his
success and character variety, critics have often called him a "virtuoso"
actor. He is also co-owner of South Sydney Rabbitohs, an Australian
National Rugby League team.
STEVE JOBS
Made this originally for CARICATURAMA 3000 Challenge
(Digitally painted in Photoshop)
Work in progress (Final stage) 2012
Work in progress_stage 2
Work in progress_stage 1
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
Digitally painted in Photoshop
Christopher Walken (pronounced /ˈwɔːlkən/; born March 31, 1943)
is an American stage and screen actor. He has appeared in more than
100 movies and television shows, including The Deer Hunter, Annie
Hall, The Prophecy trilogy, The Dogs of War, Sleepy Hollow, Brainstorm,
The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, At Close Range, King of New York,
True Romance, Catch Me If You Can, Pulp Fiction, Wedding Crashers,
The Rundown, Click, and Hairspray as well as music videos by recording
artists such as Madonna, Journey, Run DMC, The Left Rights and Fatboy Slim.
Walken's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion in the United States.
He has also played the main role in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth,
Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. He is also a popular guest-host of Satur-
day Night Live, having hosted 7 times as of April 2008. His most notable
roles on the show include record producer Bruce Dickinson (no relation to the
singer with the same name) in the "More Cowbell" sketch and his multiple
appearances as The Continental. Walken debuted as a film director and script
writer with the short film Popcorn Shrimp in 2001. He also wrote and acted
the main role in a play about Elvis Presley titled Him in 1995.
NICK CAVE
Digitally painted in Photoshop
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave (born 22 September 1957)
is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer
and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman
of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,
established in 1983, a group known for its eclectic influences and musical
styles. Before that, he had fronted the group The Birthday Party in the
early 1980s, a band renowned for its highly gothic, challenging lyrics and
violent sound influenced by free jazz, blues, and post-punk. In 2006, he
formed the garage rock band Grinderman that released its debut the fol-
lowing year. Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional inten-
sity, a wide variety of influences, and lyrical obsessions with "religion,
death, love, America, and violence. "Upon Cave's induction into the
ARIA Hall of Fame, ARIA Awards committee chairman Ed St John said,
“Nick Cave has enjoyed—and continues to enjoy—one of the most extra-
ordinary careers in the annals of popular music. He is an Australian artist
like Sidney Nolan is an Australian artist—beyond comparison, beyond
genre, beyond dispute.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Digitally painted in Photoshop
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)
was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough
beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on
20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental
illness, he died at the age of 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted
to be self-inflicted (although no gun was ever found). His work was then
known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still.Van Gogh
loved art from an early age. He began to draw as a child, and he continued
making drawings throughout the years leading to his decision to become an
artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of
his best-known works during his last two years. In just over a decade, he
produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and
more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. His work
included self portraits, landscapes, still lifes of flowers, portraits and
paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.
BRAD PITT
I n g l o r i o u s B a s t a r d
Digitally painted in Photoshop
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt[1] (born December 18, 1963)
is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received four Academy
Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning
one Golden Globe. He has been described as one of the world's most
attractive men, a label for which he has received substantial media attention.
DEAD OR ALIVE
Digital painting of a good friend David
DAVID PORTRAIT work in progress part IV done
