Uriah Heep

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Perfect Uriah, Lewis.

Posted by Seth Dalton on Thu 22 Mar 07:22:47

Great style, he looks proper sinister. I can't wait to see which characters you chose, Dickens created so many.

Posted by D Hillman on Thu 22 Mar 07:29:49

SUPER Lewis, Shame it looks a bit on the small side though on my screen. But I can enlarge it,a bit blurred though. Anyway HEEP good piece of work.

Posted by John Graham Inkson on Thu 22 Mar 07:32:20

Proper sinister looking with those eyes and nose. I wonder who is next?

Posted by Tony Wiggins on Thu 22 Mar 07:45:17

Ever so humble Lew. Great start, perfect in fact..(-:

Posted by Jim Morris on Thu 22 Mar 07:55:04

hopefully , Scrooge - before and after. Still my favourite

Posted by Mike Capenerhurst on Thu 22 Mar 08:18:24

Thanks for your comments, this one will be in my final group. I've also done Fagin (again) and Sairy Gamp, but I'm not happy with them, and may do them again. Sorry it's blurred on your screen, John, it looks OK on mine. I scan these little 6 x 4 pics at 'actual size', but I've noticed they come out about 4 times that size on POL and look awful. So, for these, I reduce the DPI to 50 (a bit low res) and they are spot on (size-wise), perhaps I should have sharpened it...but I don't usually do that...I don't like to fiddle with them.

Posted by Lewis Cooper on Thu 22 Mar 08:18:50

It's a great skill working from imagination and your good at it. Nice painting

Posted by dennis roberts on Thu 22 Mar 08:19:39

Fine work. Lewis, can you do Smallweed? Would love to see your take on him! Shake him up, Lewis!

Posted by T H on Thu 22 Mar 08:21:48

Love these little pics Lewis, looking forward to seeing the final group!

Posted by Jenny Harris on Thu 22 Mar 08:36:16

Thanks Dennis, Timothy and Jenny. These little pics don't take long, but I don't know when I'll finish the group. I have two frames that take eight 6 x 4 inch pics (I was only going to use ONE for the Dickens idea)...the trouble is I'm spoilt for choice in characters...I may end up doing both frames. That's sixteen pics, probably more because I've already done two that aren't right. It's lucky I like doing them, or I'd never get it finished.

Posted by Lewis Cooper on Thu 22 Mar 08:54:51

He looks charming but wicked. Your drawings always cheer me up Lewis!

Posted on Thu 22 Mar 09:01:51

So very very good, Lewis. Just as I imagine him!

Posted by Thalia Stones on Thu 22 Mar 09:02:04

He has always been my favourite Dickensian villain. You have done him just as imagine him. Oily and umble.

Posted by Janet Humphrey on Thu 22 Mar 09:03:45

I'm hoping to see Bill Sykes in there as he's the baddest of the bad....Robert Newton and Oliver Reed have both been brilliant film versions.

Posted by Jim Morris on Thu 22 Mar 09:11:10

You have so many characters to choose from to portray. I like some of the minor characters, Mrs Gamp for example.

Posted by Janet Humphrey on Thu 22 Mar 09:13:22

Incredibly clever work Lew, I love this character immensely.

Posted by Alan Bickley on Thu 22 Mar 09:32:54

This is great Lewis. So much character and he sits well in that format.

Posted by Louise Naimian on Thu 22 Mar 09:41:51

Wonderful, Lewis.

Posted by Sandra Kennedy on Thu 22 Mar 09:46:52

I know severa people like this...he’s brilliant Lew ..

Posted by Sylvia Evans on Thu 22 Mar 09:56:40

Love it :)

Posted by Alan Glass on Thu 22 Mar 10:17:59

Great idea for a series, Lewis. Uriah looks like the cadaverous, grasping, insincere GIT that Dickens presented all those years ago. I wouldn't trust this guy with my sweat, never mind my wallet, no matter how 'umble he claimed to be. Great characterization and caricature. Brian

Posted by Brian J Mackay on Thu 22 Mar 11:39:59

What a characterisation, looks a wicked chap indeed.

Posted by andre mulard on Thu 22 Mar 15:16:49

Tremendous!!

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Thu 22 Mar 15:31:50

I like your cheeky looking characters Lewis!

Posted on Thu 22 Mar 16:20:27

Oooh what a creepy looking character he looks Lewis, I'm looking forward to seeing the full collection.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Thu 22 Mar 16:40:07

Brilliant Lewis.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Thu 22 Mar 17:28:51

Brilliant Lewis

Posted by Russell Edwards on Thu 22 Mar 20:28:47

Awesome Lewis, Reminds me of my first bank manager lol.

Posted by Charles Bullock on Thu 22 Mar 20:37:17

Hang on Studio Wall

22/03/2018

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Part of my Dickens group picture. 6 x 4 inch. Watercolour. I started this project a couple of days ago, and have done four pics in total. But I'm having the usual doubts. My Charles Dickens pic was a copy of a photo but I want the other 7 pics in the group to be from my imagination (as they were from his). I suspect I'll do far more than seven before I settle on which to go with.

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Lewis Cooper

Self taught. Love drawing. Like to make pictures up, without using reference pics, often in cartoon style. I do other pictures where I do use reference. I'm knocking on a bit, born in 1940 in Greenwich, London. Retired, and loving it.

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