Ian Lloyd is a caricature artist from Bristol, England. Have a look at his clean efficient lines. Fast and funny art perfected for the fast-paced world of gig caricature. The style is classic cartoony with a lot of emphasis on eyes and noses. There’s plenty of exaggeration in the head shapes as well. He likes to push and pull foreheads and eye ridges. Ian might have been influenced by the artwork of Tom Richman of Mad magazine fame.

You can find more of Ian’s work here:

http://www.instagram.com/parody_portraits_/

http://twitter.com/ParodyPortraits?lang=en-gb

http://www.parodyportraits.com

Kosuke Miyagi is an illustrator and caricaturist from Naha, Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. He’s an who is constantly experimenting with different styles. In one piece his work has vibrant nearly fluorescent colors with bold simple shapes and in the next, there will be flowing lines and gray tones. The caricature of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost from the movie “Paul” is a great example of the latter. Not only are the faces and poses exaggerated they are distorted as well. The distortion helps lead the eyes around to discover the alien hiding in the lower corner.

Find more of Kosuke’s caricature and illustration here:
https://www.kosuke-miyagi.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kosuke_miyagi/
https://www.facebook.com/kosuke.miyagi

This time we’ll highlight an artist with a classic style that could have jumped right off the printed pages of Cracked or Mad Magazine. Tony Smith works out of Atlanta, Georgia. He’s started drawing early and life and never stopped. Tony’s style features exaggerations that flow with the lines of his subjects face, that leads to an unmistakable likeness. He almost he does a squashed and stretched portrait, but there is plenty of humor in his work. Smiles are the focus of his caricatures. They are big, broad, friendly and warm. It would be hard to say no to such inviting work.

More of Tony Smith’s Work can be found here:

https://www.instagram.com/caricatures_bytony/

http://www.caricaturesbytony.com/

Sakiko “Satsu” Ushioda is a caricaturist and illustrator from Oita Japan. She a flexible artist, whose style can go from fairly straightforward to hilariously ridiculous. The featured piece, a caricature of Freddy Mercury is closer to the ridiculous end of the spectrum. The figure is in an exaggerated power pose like Mercury might have used at the height of his popularity. The huge fist is the first thing that hits your eye and then it leads you the Freddie’s face. Satsu’s use of like weight is interesting. While she doesn’t vary line weight much in a single stroke she does use different line weight to distinguish order. Outlines are bolder than lines used for details, with Freddie’s outline being boldest of all. Find more of Satsu’s work here:

http://www.facebook.com/sakiko.satsu.ushioda
http://www.instagram.com/satsu_ushioda/
http://www.satsu-nigaoe.com/

Kevin Jackson is one-third of the founders of KevJax Apparel and Design company. He’s also one heck of an artist. Kevin or Kev as he signs his work is clearly a fan of basketball. Many of the subjects of his caricatures are basketball stars, but there are others as well. He’s done caricatures from movies and general pop culture. The featured piece is Kev interpretation of the famous and controversial Colin Kaepernick. The artwork is very cartoony with the skinny face and over-the-top fro and square beard. However, Kev’s drawing still captures a seriousness in Kaepernick’s expression. See more of Kev’s work, including both his drawings and his clothing company with the links below.

http://www.facebook.com/kevjaxco/
http://www.instagram.com/kevjaxco/
http://kevjax.com/

He’s the artist part of the creative team behind the webcomics, “Least I Could Do” and “Looking for Group”. He’s leveraged his art for charity. He’s a weekly art streamer where he draws some funny, punny and sometimes mind-bending art mashups. He’s everyone’s Unca Lar, Lar deSouza. Looking through Lar’s Instagram, tumblr or twitter, you can see he’s a master of line art. He frequently flexes his artistic muscles doing different styles of art work. He’s done work in the styles of 40’s comics, 60’s tv cartoons, and even drawing inspiration (wince) from modern television, cartoons and video games. However, when Lar, borrows an art-style he always gives it his own, special twist. For example, a young Bruce, Wayne, in the style of Richie Rich: poor little rich boy.

Lar deSouza is a Canadian artist, but he pays attention to what’s happening with his neighbors to the south. He borrows from Dr. Seuss to do a simple caricature of Robert Muller, as well as doing some light commentary on the Muller Report. The choices in Lar’s work are very intentional, and “Oh the things you’ll redact” is no exception. Dr. Seuss is normally remembered as a writer and illustrator of children’s books, like “Green Eggs and Ham” and “Fox in Socks.” However, Dr. Seuss was also well known for his political cartoons. It’s likely Dr. Seuss would find the political climate in the U.S. quite “inspirational.” Lar does a great job channeling Dr. Seuss for this political caricature.

You can find more of Lar deSouza’s work here: