Thursday, October 3, 2013

Michael Witte

In my recent research for holiday card illustration, I found this illustration done by Michael Witte at theiSpot.com.



In further searching, once I found his work at the iSpot, I found that he does have other portfolio sites like Workbook and Rappart, as well as his own domain name at michaelwitte.com . His style is very caricature based, humorous, and witty. No pun intended. I really like and appreciate the style in many respects. I don't think that it is a style that I would pursue though. I have always had a very difficult time imagining how a caricature artist chooses the features of a person to exaggerate. I tend to see thing very literally and feel the need to reproduce things as true to real looking as possible. Perhaps that is why I've always been so discouraged with my drawing skills, because what I end up with is rarely as close as I would like it to be to the real object or image. When I do create something that closely resembles my subject, then I'm happy with it. I suppose I need to either broaden my horizons, or learn to accept my own flaws.