NCN Convention

It is that time of year again. The National Caricature Network conventions is occurring next week. This year it is being held in Raleigh, North Carolina. The NCN is an international organization. Other than US states artists are coming from China, Canada, Singapore, Australia, England, Thailand, Japan, The Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium and New Zealand. I will give a report when I get back.

NCN 2008 Convention

Work in Progress

This is part of a bigger composition of eight caricatures. Still playing with the colors.

Barack Obama

Senator Obama is having a rally in Asheville today.

Watercolor Caricature

A commissioned caricature.

Audrey Hepburn

I was bored a little with the original sketch so I made a film noir Hepburn.

Film noir

Thank You Note

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.

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.

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).

"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

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.

Some festival sketches folks