Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Ronaldo

A commissioned from ImagineFX magazine, used to launch their Fantasy Football competition, where the challenge is to reimagine football players as fantastic creatures from myth, horror or sci-fi.
It was quite a challenge for me, as it was done on a tight deadline, and I know practically nothing about football in general and Ronaldo in particular. Luckily, the brief was pretty tight (much like Ronaldo's own)

My initial sketches:

And stages of the painting:

Annoyingly, about a month after finishing the caricature, Vanity Fair featured what would have been a perfect reference as its cover

12 comments:

Enderson Santos said...
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Enderson Santos said...

great job.

Poussinaute said...

Funny job !

Niall O loughlin said...

for someone who doesn't like football, you did a fantastic job.

em... said...

Thank you all.

Paul Moyse said...

Nice work, love the Locke piece!

em... said...

Cheers, Paul.

Toby Kinread said...

Wow, you got the likeness exactly right, well done:)

em... said...

Thanks, Toby

Francisco Martins said...

Whoa! really nice work man! Love your style!

Cheers from Lisbon!

em... said...

Thank you, Francisco.

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