User:Nightscream
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I'm a male Italian-American illustrator and recruiter for a market research company living in Union City, New Jersey. You can converse with me and my friends on any number of topics at Nitcentral.com.
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[edit] My Contributions
These are the areas of interest in which I’ve created or contributed to the largest numbers of articles. My watchlist
[edit] My Artwork
[edit] Landscape Illustration Temple of Jupiter I did the basic sketch of the ruins on-site when I visited Pompei, Italy on April 15, 2004. Because I had limited time, I was forced to finish the details and rendering when I returned home, using photos I took for reference. |
[edit] Logos
 Camp Greenwich Clothing My boss asked me to do this logo for a line of clothing she was developing called Camp Greenwich Clothing. The words “Camp Greenwich” would be added in a semicircle over the illustration, and “Clothing” beneath it. The illustration is based on an actual street in Greenwich, Connecticut, where she lives. |
[edit] My Sketchbooks
These are pages from two of my sketchbooks, in which I do studies of anatomy and faces, among other things, usually from reference.
[edit] Portraiture
These are photocopies of some of the portraits I’ve done at Union City’s annual Multi-Arts Festival. Every May since 1989, I’ve volunteered at the Festival, doing a workshop in portraits, caricatures, cartoon or comic book characters, or whatever the kids ask me to do.
[edit] Caricature
These are some of the caricatures I’ve done at the Festival.
[edit] Celebrity Caricature
These are some of the caricatures I’ve done of celebrities. The first on the left is a watercolor of alleged psychic Allison DuBois, on whom Patricia Arquette’s character on the tv show Medium is based. When magician, escape artist, educator and skeptical investigator of pseudoscientific claims, James “The Amazing” Randi began commenting on his website on DuBois’ claims of being able to speak to the dead and of having worked with authorities in solving crimes and putting people on death row, she threatened him with legal action for using a photo of her from her site without her permission. After he removed it, I offered to donate a caricature of her for him to use whenever he wished, and he happily accepted. When he received it, he was so pleased with it that he commissioned me to do one of him, which is the second image from the left above, also done in watercolor. Randi first used the caricature I made of him in his July 29, 2005 Commentary, and first used the one of DuBois in his December 23, 2005 Commentary. He has since reused it in his January 27, 2006 and June 9, 2006 Commentaries.
The next image is of three caricatures I did of Leonardo DiCaprio, Cindy Crawford, and Arnold Schwarzenegger using pieces of layered colored construction paper. The next image is of Quentin Tarantino, done using the same technique.
The next image is of Conan O’Brien and Andy Richter as Laurel & Hardy, done with color pencil and marker. After I met Brian Stack, one of the writer/actor/editors on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, he invited me to be in the audience, and I made this caricature for Conan. I didn’t get to meet him, but hopefully he still has it.
The last image is a caricature/cartoon of comedienne Sarah Silverman that I made in 2002 in reference to the controversy in which Silverman became embroiled the previous year, following a joke she told on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, which involved a friend advising her to avoid jury duty by writing a racial slur on the selection form, “something really inappropriate, like, 'I hate chinks'.” However, as the joke went, Silverman said that she ultimately decided that she did not want to be thought of as a racist and instead wrote, “I "love" chinks.” Even though Silverman claimed to be satirizing the racist thought process, the head of an Asian-American media watchdog group demanded an apology, and the two of them squared off on Politically Incorrect. When I went to see Sarah’s show in Manhattan in August 2002, I made the cartoon for her, in which she says the offensive remark through a rabbit puppet, a reference to the show Greg the Bunny, on which she starred. (Disclaimer: The cartoon is intended as a humorous reference to the incident, and not as an endorsement of the casual reference to people of ethnicity with ethnic slurs, which I do not find acceptable.)
