Peter Cushing

A caricature of Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes in Hammer's The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Robert Downey Junior

A caricature of actor Robert Downey Junior, done for a Bookface challenge.

Rupert Everett as Sherlock Holmes

My final painting of Rupert Everett's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, done for February's E-Caricatures challenge.

I wanted it to feel like a Victorian portrait, and it is largely based on a painting by John Singer Sargent (hence the apology at the bottom).

and some stages

Rupert Everett sketches

A couple of sketches of actor Rupert Everett. Practice for a painting of him as Sherlock Holmes.

Martin Freeman

A caricature sketch of actor Martin Freeman, from the original UK version of The Office, the movie version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the recent BBC series Sherlock, and soon to be seen as a young Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit

Young Sherlock Holmes

The 1985 Barry Levinson movie Young Sherlock Holmes was on TV yesterday. It's not a great movie, although entertaining enough, but the actor who played Holmes - Nicholas Rowe - had an interesting face, so I did a quick sketch of him.

Sherlock

A caricature of Benedict Cumberbatch, the title star of the BBC's fantastic new Sherlock TV series.

And stages...

Eddie Marsan

A caricature sketch of British character actor Eddie Marsan. You may not know the name, but have probably seen his face in various movies and TV shows, usually playing some untrustworthy character or other.
He can currently be seen (at time of writing this blog entry) as Inspector Lestrade in Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes - Jeremy Brett

With the new Robert Downey Jnr movie currently in cinemas, I thought I'd have a go at caricaturing the finest screen incarnation of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective - Jeremy Brett.
Below are some stages: