André Carrilho

John Martz | March 29th, 2006

I love good caricature. There’s nothing worse than bad caricature, which is why I try to stay away from the whole thing when possible, because I can never really capture a likeness dead on. Lucky for Portuguese illustrator André Carrilho, he doesn’t have that problem — even with the most grotesque distortions, his caricatures retain instant recognition (see his Morrissey, par example).

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  • Funny thing is that i was born the same day than him and i am also a caricature artist isnt this funny?
  • A great caricature artist with no doubt.
  • suresh
    so inspiring caricature. great job andre. keep it up
  • I really dig this guy's artwork.
  • Gon
    He´s one of the top illustrators and caricaturists here in Portugal, I´m inspired a lot by his work..
  • It's beautiful !!
  • I'll not argue against André's enormous talent: he mastered Hirschfeld's elegant inking and fearless approach to the subject together with a modern rendering. Each caricature is great taken one by one. But his gallery made me tired in the end. I wonder why?

    I think it's because he employs the same technique and the same use of light and shade in all his works (at least in this field), plus never inserting imagery to round a statement on the subject.

    Maybe I'm of some kind of mediocre old school. But I never feel tired of opinionated caricaturists like Ian Pollock, Cuneo, Brodner, Ciardello (warercolorists all of them) or Burke (fauve). They feed my eyes and my mind endlessly.
  • Mucho gusto!

    Just great portraits with a very fine style.

    Bravo!
  • Yes, I,ve been a fan for a while. I even tipped him here, in these very comments, eight weeks or so ago.
  • ctx
    André is also doing some VJ Art.: www.videojackstudios.com
  • Just amazing, these are very, very stong likenesses, and I love the blending of photos and traditional rendering. I love it!
  • it almost looks like he's taken photographs, diddled them around in photoshop, then redrawn certain parts he didnt like. esp the plath, bill murray & queen
  • Maow
    Very slick! Nice style!
  • Wow, what a unique characturist with a really great style.
  • Dudeman McGee
    These are AWESOME. He's a staple in the New York Times Book Review–I always love seeing his work.
  • GAUCHE IN THE MACHINE
    Thanks for posting these- they are gorgeous..
  • André is a great caricaturist, a great export of my adopted home. He has an uncanny knack and is rightly one of the best known and best used illustrators here. Nice one, Johnny.
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