John Berry’s sings for Valentines

This week’s ET cover is on several things couples can do this weekend in advance of Valentine’s Day. The great face of country singer John Berry served as my inspiration for a caricature as he brings his special brand of music to the Paramount Arts Center. He has a very sturdy and horizontal look with the hooded eyes and prominent jawline — almost like a lion.
As in all caricatures, the emphasis in the composition is the face and the rest of the body needs to flow from that point. Berry as Cupid gives me a great opportunity to exercise a little self-censorship. (Har Har!) And rather than the standard bow and arrow, I plan to have him pulling arrow from the E-string of his Fender Strat — more fitting to his special offerings and compositionally interesting. Headlines and copy should fall cleanly into the empty space below his knees.
Stay tuned.
Oh, also, quickly on the heels of this project, I’ll be putting together a caricature for Sunday’s Life page on comedian Martin Short. So I’ll need to get crackin’.