Caricature in memory of my best friend...

 Not strictly university work here but I thought I'd post this as it was drawn using similar methods that I'll be implementing to my character design and concept work.

A year and a half ago my best mate Mark asked me to draw a caricature of him and his daughter, as time passed and life got in the way I didn't get round to it. In this time he also suggested I try caricaturing his favourite movie Terminator 2 Judgement Day. 

Last year Mark was diagnosed with bowel cancer and soon after tragically told it was terminal. I found one of the photos he sent me and combined it with a Terminator movie poster to use as reference for a caricature of him and his daughter which I'll be getting printed on canvas and giving to her as a gift. I drew this in Procreate using the Willow charcoal brush and script brush. 

It was Mark that encouraged me to buy an iPad, purchase Procreate and taught me the basics of how to use it which are now proving invaluable on this course and I plan to make full use of this and will forever be grateful to him.

Sadly he passed away last week. One of the last things he said to me was to go after my dreams and not be scared, I plan to do exactly that.












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