Sunday, September 21, 2008

Happy Faces at Company Picnic

At large events I draw around 12 to 20 caricatures an hour.















This little guy was moving around the whole time I was drawing him!

This was an experiment of a more exaggerated head shape. I drew the outside shape first and filled in the features.





Drawing expressions and a person's "personality" is important when capturing one's likeness.




Friday, September 19, 2008

Caricature Commissions

This commission is of three comedians operating on a mic.


Here is the provided "kiss" photo, initial sketch and final drawing.



"Thelma and Louise" caricature with given photos,sketch and final.


Thursday, September 18, 2008

Year Book Photo

Some friends told me about a web site where and you can create a mock year book photo of yourself. It is at www.yearbookyourself.com Instead of uploading a regular picture I used two altered pictures I created in "Photo Booth" on my Mac. You can choose male or female hair styles from the '50s to the year 2000. The last two photos are my actual year book photos from my Freshman year (1982) and Senior year (1985).





Sunday, September 14, 2008

"Sketch Monkey" caricature documentary

Here is a video of the 2006 National Caricature Convention held in Orlando, Florida to give you an idea of the environment of a NCN annual convention. A film crew was making a documentary and this is the trailer. This was my first convention I attended and at 2:12 you can see me working! Hopefully the full version will be available soon.(As of April 2009 the film has been postponed indefinitely because of financial reasons.)

Follow this link.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=21192067

Monday, August 25, 2008

Caricature convention 2007

Attention! I just attended the 2008 caricature convention held November 2nd - 7th in Raleigh,North Carolina.
  • Here is the link to the pictures.

  • I also have posted some caricature related videos on my YouTube page.
  • Here is the link to YouTube.


  • Each year the National Caricature Network I belong to has an annual convention.
  • These pictures are my work from last years convention in Reno, Nevada. This year the convention will be held in Raleigh. The first time in North Carolina. Around 150 caricature artist attend the convention including members from Europe and Asia. Everyone draws each other, there are great workshops and we get to socialize with others who draw for a living. The guest speaker and this year it is
  • Ismael Roldan
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    Below is my caricature of Paul Moyse from Kent, United kingdom. Amazing artist.
  • Check out Paul's blog



  • Marlo Meekins graphic caricature I did.
  • Marlo''s blog



  • "Big Al" who lives east of San Francisco.
  • Al's web log.




  • Saturday, July 19, 2008

    Wednesday, April 16, 2008

    Sylva,NC

    I draw caricatures around Asheville, North Carolina and also travel.These drawings are from Sylva,NC.
    In the first one "Strawberry' needed to be included.



    Wednesday, April 02, 2008

    Repeat Customers

    Had fun drawing at a local baseball park this past week. A couple sat down and said I had drawn them before. They mentioned the holiday party I first met them at. I remembered their faces. When I analyze and draw someone's face for 6 minutes you almost memorize it. I found the original caricature I did of them. It was a little less crazy.

    Another baseball park caricature.