Carolina Klüft for "AMOS"

The Swedish magazine "AMOS" commissioned me to draw a caricature of the Swedish Olympic champion athlete (and winner of the 2007 World Athletics Championships heptathlon event for an unprecedented third time) Carolina Klüft. The AD wanted me to illustrate the apparent effortlessness with which "Carro" attains her goals.
My first sketch, it was agreed, hit the nail on the head - whilst others labour to achieve their aims in life, the athletic Ms.Klüft seems almost to defy gravity itself sometimes as she floats from one success to another.


I worked up her face until I was happy with the caricature


I coloured the pencils in Photoshop with the following results:

Why a Blog?

Problems with my domain name - MauriceMechan.com - and a reluctance to go with a completely new domain, have resulted in this: me sitting down and finally, some might say, creating a blog.
Whilst I work out how to proceed on the domain front, I'll be using this blog to post samples of my work, old and new, along with sketches showing my working process and the odd comment or two.
I'll be keeping this site updated on a regular basis too, so please drop by from time to time and see what I've been getting up to!