Quick Caricatures

When I draw at colleges and other large events I draw faster. These were done in two and a half to three minutes.

Happy 50th

Brian,
Here is the framed piece. My sister loved it!!! I can't tell you how many other family members want their own! Again, thank you so very much. I will be using your talent again!
Linda

April Caricatures

DrawingBoard.com

Here is Jak from Belgium, "OakHorse" and Chris Marie from Chicago . They are members of DrawingBoard.com There is a thread where members post their face's for other members to draw a caricature of. Practicing different styles and degrees of humor and exaggeration.

Scarlett Johansson

I like making simple graphic caricatures like this one of Scarlett Johansson. This was hand drawn with a brush pen, scanned and colored with the computer program PhotoShop. This is a great style for a gift caricature!

2003 -2009

Here are examples of how my caricatures have developed over the past few years.


When I am looking at someone's face I think about the head shape (a triangle in this case) and how to exaggerate the "T" shape of the eyes and nose.

Birthday Caricature

Gift caricature for someone turning 50.

21st Annual Comedy Classic Caricatures

This weekend was the Comedy Classic held at the Grove Park Inn. Here are a few of my caricatures. Since I was not busy I spent more time on them.
This husband and wife were from Atlanta.


Couple visiting from Boston.




Three sisters! They were fun to draw.

Caricatures for Wachovia Bank

This past week I drew caricatures for the Wachovia bank Awards night. Roaming around I captured the attendees arriving, sitting together and I drew some of the award receivers. I even drew the guest speaker. These were done quickly, about 4 minutes each.

John McPhee

This is John McPhee, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. A pencil caricature drawing like this one takes over 2 hours to do.

Ohio Family

A nice family from Ohio.

Caricature of David Gilmour

I included my photo reference and thumbnail idea sketches.

Birthdays Caricatures

Here are some practice caricatures of Lou Reed born March 2nd, Bobby Driscoll born March 3rd, Pier Paolo Pasolini born March 5th and Chris Rea born March 4th. The drawings were done in pencil, charcoal and digitally. It is fun to experiment.