Nick Cave Caricature

Singer, writer and actor Nick Cave.

Sophia Loren Caricature

I want to draw more celebrities and here is one of Sophia Loren. Done with a charcoal pencil.

2009 ISCA Annual Convention

The first week of November I am attending the International Society of Caricature Artist's convention. This year it will be held in Sandusky, Ohio. Each year the convention has a guest speaker. This year is special. There will be four guest speakers from Mad magazine!

Go here to learn more about the convention.

Blue Tongue

This is David op De Beeck, a new member of the

International Society of Caricature Artists

I thought giving him a blue tongue would be fun. The drawing was done on the odopod.com drawing site.

Watch its recording here.

Young Couple

Meet this couple visiting Asheville. This caricatures has a little more detail and analysis compared to my faster festival drawings. The lines are more crisper and I added the shading. Did you notice I only gave her one ear ring? It happens.

Lexington Avenue Arts & Fun Festival

Happy Labor Day! Yesterday I drew festival caricatures at LAAFF, the

Lexington Avenue Arts & Fun Festival

I know I am doing a fair job when my customers are smiling. =)

Post-it Note Caricatures

Two ISCA members drawn with a PITT brush pen on a 3" by 3" post-it notes.

Nimo Caricature

A quick caricature sketch of a fellow member of the ISCA (International Society of Caricature Artists).

Skull Sketch

Understanding the structure and anatomy of a skull is very important. When I draw a live caricature I use this information to guide the exaggeration and likeness of the person. Above is a skull I drew on odosketch.

odosketch.com website

At this link you can watch recordings of my drawings.

Black Mountain Sourwood Festival

Look here doggie

Here is one dog cartoon I drew last week. Trying to get him to look up was a challenge.

Portrait of Maria

A portrait with some exaggeration. I sketched it while sitting at the 34th annual Biltmore Village Art and Craft Fair last weekend. Drawn with a PITT artist brush pen and shaded with black Prisamacolor pencil and charcoal pencil. I post photographs of mine at fotocommunity.com and I saw the striking image of this little girl. It was taken by Kaleriya Bogoyavlenskaya from Baku, Azerbaijan.

55th Birthday

His wife wanted me to give him bigger ears.

Figure Studies

For a change I thought I would show some of my live figure studies I did this evening. When I attended art school in Philadelphia I enjoyed figure drawing. Twenty years later I still enjoy drawing live models. Some people think artists become cartoonists because they can not draw realistically which is not the case. Understanding anatomy and drawing what I see helps me be a better caricature artist. These are 3 to 10 minute color pencil sketches.

Asheville's Bele Chere Festival

I drew this past weekend at the Bele Chere festival in downtown Asheville. Bele Chere means "beautiful living" in ancient Scottish. I took a few pictures of my work.