Great Awakening Caricatures

I created these caricatures of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield for a woman in my Bible study.  Edwards and Whitefield helped lead the 18th-century Great Awakening revival movement.

Most of the Jonathan Edwards reference pictures showed the same facial characteristics, making picking reference pictures easy.  Many of the George Whitefield pictures looked like different people.  I collected the most common depictions and hope I captured Whitefield's actual likeness.

I downloaded the free Inkscape vector illustration program a couple months ago.  Adobe won't re-authorize the programs I already own, and I don't want to rent my programs from the Cloud.  I have over 20 years of Adobe Illustrator ingrained in my head, and Inkscape shares almost nothing similar to Illustrator.  I'm getting it down though.  I created these in Inkscape.

1 Corinthians 10:31- So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Ephesians 5:14- ...Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.

Commissioned Stylized Caricatures

"The Bad-Joke Guys"

    A friend commissioned me to illustrate his idea of him and his two buddies, all in Christian ministry coming from different walks of life.

    I should have made this a vector illustration in Illustrator instead of a bitmap illustration in Photoshop with a Wacom.  Fixing mistakes or making changes took forever.  I used the Brush tool for most of the project.  I used the default black foreground and white background; I drew with the black, then pressed x to 'erase' with white.

    I used the Pen Tool to create the patches on the vest:

1. In the Brush Tool options, I set the Brush Master Diameter to two points
2. I used the Pen Tool to draw a path in the shape of the patch on the vest.
3. I right-clicked over the path to bring up the Stroke Path option
4. Clicking the Stroke Path option brings up the Stroke Path / Tool: option dropdown menu
5. From the dropdown menu, I selected Brush, and a 2 point brush line stroked the path

    I made the chains on the front of the vest in Illustrator with the Art Brush tool.  I imported the chains into Photoshop as Smart Objects, so I could resize them without losing resolution.  I made the background in Illustrator also.

    My friend liked the finished product.  He surprised his buddies with copies for each of them, and they liked it also.