Mila Kunis

Milena Markovna Kunis, professionally known as Mila Kunis (pron.: /ˈmiːlə ˈkuːnɪs/; born August 14, 1983), is an American actress and voice artist. In 1991, at the age of seven, she moved from Ukraine to Los Angeles with her family. After being enrolled in acting classes as an after-school activity, she was soon discovered by an agent. She appeared in several television series and commercials, before acquiring her first significant role prior to her 15th birthday, playing Jackie Burkhart on the television series That '70s Show. A year later, she was cast as the voice of Meg Griffin on the animated series Family Guy. Her breakout film role came in 2008, playing Rachel Jansen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Subsequent film roles included Mona Sax in Max Payne, Solara in The Book of Eli, Jamie in Friends with Benefits, and Lori in the comedy Ted. Her performance as Lily in Black Swan gained her worldwide accolades, including receiving the Premio Marcello Mastroianni for Best Young Actor or Actress at the 67th Venice International Film Festival, and nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. She recently starred along side Rachel Weisz, and James Franco in Oz The Great And Powerful. Below is a caricature I did of the talented young actress along with some reference pics, Thanks for stopping by, Enjoy!!!

Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American film, stage, and voice actor, and a member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group. He has had roles in a wide range of films, including Platoon, Affliction, Off Limits, Streets of Fire, To Live and Die in L.A., Born on the Fourth of July, The English Patient, The Last Temptation of Christ, Mississippi Burning, Mr. Bean's Holiday, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Boondock Saints, Spider-Man (Green Goblin), and The Aviator, and voice roles in Fantastic Mr. Fox and Finding Nemo (Voice Of Gill), as well as The Voice and performance capture of Tars Tarkas in the film John Carter. Dafoe has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice. The first was for his role in Platoon in 1986 and the second time for his performance in Shadow of the Vampire in 2000. I always enjoy watching this man perform on film. Below is my caricature of Willem Dafoe followed by a screen grab of a process shot along with the reference pics I used. I purposefully kept this piece nice and painterly, experimenting with the various Mixer Brushes in Photoshop cs6 along with some custom mixer brushes I created for myself. Thanks for stopping by, Enjoy!!!

Halle Berry

Halle Maria Berry (born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress and former fashion model. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2013, the only woman of African-American descent to win an Oscar for a leading role. She is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood and has been involved in the production side of several of the films in which she performed. Berry is also a Revlon spokesmodel. Here is a caricature I did of Halle Berry followed by some reference pics of the Actress/ Model. Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy!!!

Iggy Pop

From Wikipedia: Iggy Pop (born James Newell Osterberg, Jr.; April 21, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though widely known as an innovator and "godfather" of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, hard rock, jazz and blues. Pop became known as 'Iggy' in high school, during which time he served as drummer for local blues band The Iguanas. He is vocalist of influential protopunk band The Stooges (Pop and the other surviving members of the group reunited in 2003), having become known, since the late 1960s, for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics. As an actor Pop has appeared in sixteen movies, including Sid and Nancy (a non-speaking cameo role), The Color of Money, Hardware (voice only), The Crow: City of Angels, The Rugrats Movie, Snow Day, Coffee and Cigarettes (opposite Tom Waits, in the third segment of the film, "Somewhere in California"), Cry-Baby, Dead Man, Tank Girl and Atolladero, a Spanish science fiction Western. Pop also sings the main theme for Atolladero, he is the voice of The Beast From Another Dimension in the cult animated film Rock & Rule and also sings its song, "Pain and Suffering". He has been featured in five television series, including Tales from the Crypt, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, where he played Nona's dad in the second and third season, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in which he played Yelgrun in "The Magnificent Ferengi" episode. With The Stooges, he was also featured in an episode of MTV's Bam's Unholy Union as the main band performing at Bam's wedding. Additionally, a portion of the music video for Iggy's Butt Town was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butthead. My reason for wanting to do a caricature portrait of Iggy Pop is his insanely ripped anatomy, and that face, well I just couldn't resist. Below is my caricature followed by some reference pics of the Rock Star. As you can see I really did not exaggerate to much. lol Thanks for stopping by, Enjoy!!!

Zbrush Ant Creature

An Antman that wears a slug on his head???, Why not. I did this after watching the awesome Bryan Wynia do a few demos in a CG Workshop that CG Society released recently. Started out as a sculpt in z-brush, Then taken into photoshop and duplicated several times to come up with some variations on the same theme. I picked the thumbnail I liked the most and went back into Zbrush to sculpt and Polypaint a final. From there it's back into photoshop to composite some of the renders, paint over and add some more textures. Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy!!!

Rod Serling

Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen and helped form television industry standards. He was known as the "angry young man" of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism, and war. Serling was posthumously inducted by the Television Hall of Fame in 1985 and by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2008. A star honoring Serling can be found at 6840 Hollywood Blvd. on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. TV Guide ranked Serling # 1 on its "25 Greatest Sci-Fi Legends" lists. His Awards include: 1955 Emmy Best Original Teleplay Writing Patterns 1955 Emmy Nomination Climax! 1956 Emmy Best Teleplay Writing Requiem for a Heavyweight 1956 Peabody Award Personal Recognition for Writing Requiem for a Heavyweight 1956 Writers Guild of America Award Best One Hour Drama Requiem for a Heavyweight 1957 Christopher Award Requiem for a Heavyweight 1956 Writers Guild of America Award Best One Hour Drama A Town Has Turned to Dust 1959 Emmy Best Teleplay Writing The Comedian 1960 Emmy Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama The Twilight Zone 1960 Emmy Nomination A Town Has Turned to Dust 1960 Hugo Award The Twilight Zone 1961 Emmy Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama The Twilight Zone 1961 Hugo Award The Twilight Zone 1962 Golden Globe Award Best Male Television Star The Twilight Zone 1962 Hugo Award The Twilight Zone 1963 Emmy Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama It's Mental Work 1964 Writers Guild of America Award Nomination Seven Days in May 1965 Golden Globe Award Best Director The Twilight Zone 1970 Edgar Allan Poe Award Special Edgar Best episode of a TV series for Night Gallery 1971 Christopher Award 2001 Daytime Emmy Award Nomination (posthumous) Writing for a Children/Youth/Family Special A Storm in Summer. Some of my favorite Rod Serling Quotes: I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself. ROD SERLING, Los Angeles Times, 1967 There is a fifth dimesion, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimesion as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is in the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone. ROD SERLING, introduction, The Twilight Zone (season 1) You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone! ROD SERLING, introduction, The Twilight Zone (season 2) I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate perfection which is to be had. At the moment, it is a dream. But as of the moment we clasp hands with our neighbor, we build the first span to bridge the gap between the young and the old. At this hour, it’s a wish. But we have it within our power to make it a reality. If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive. ROD SERLING, speech at Moorpark College, Dec. 3, 1968 The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. ROD SERLING, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," The Twilight Zone, Mar. 6, 1960 It is said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable. ROD SERLING, The Twilight Zone, 1962 It’s hardly a revelation to me that the young people in this country take a dim view of our current up-tightness when it comes to street rioting. They believe, and I think quite properly, that on the scale of misbehavior the black man who takes a torch to a building or breaks a window to loot, and does so out of passion, is less the criminal than the white man who puts his torch to human beings and does so with a cold, calculated, predatory pre-planned blueprint of destruction. ROD SERLING, speech at Moorpark College, Dec. 3, 1968 Hollywood's a great place to live ... if you're a grapefruit. ROD SERLING, Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art form should be dictated and controlled by men whose training and instincts are cut of an entirely different cloth. The fact remains that these gentlemen sell consumer goods, not an art form. ROD SERLING, Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man. ROD SERLING, speech at Binghamton Community High School, 1968 Here is my caricature of Rod Serling done as a labor of love for one of my favorite authors and a huge inspiration to me as a young man. I still watch episodes of the original Twilight Zone series to this day, and they still amaze me. He truly was an American Master of his art form in my opinion. Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy!!!

Ice Giant

A speed paint I started awhile back. The big guy with the cabin on his head was a Zbrush sculpt I never did anything with, so I decided to put him into a background:) Thanks for stopping by. enjoy!!!