Another me

Yeah, more exaggerated, Ball point pen.

More Blips

Owen Wilson as Eli Cash, pencil. (Here ya go Bopp.)

Conan, pencil and paint bucket in photoshop. Again, sorry for the dirt. Just thought it was a fun idea.

I feel like I'm on the verge of exaggerating a lot more. Still very mild when it comes to that, but I feel like really warping things. I did caricatures for a youth group event in the area tonight and it went really well. Had a lot of fun and felt real free to draw the snapshots in my mind. Kids were pretty shy at first but had a lot of laughs later. Like the good book says, "It is profitable to laugh at oneself whilst in the days of thy youth."

Weekend at the Zoo

Ok, when I'm REAL bored I do things like this memory sketch. Stephen Silver introduced me to the concept of "memory sketching"--drawing an quick 'afterthought' image of someone you saw on the bus or walking by the stand or whatever. This guy walked by as I was getting a sketch and when business slowed down I hatched out a version of his forehead and long stringy hair. It would be awesome to take Stephen's Character Design class--may do that!

there's a little photo booth next to the tiki hut where i draw caricatures--this image was drawn from one of the sample photos of a girl and her presumed boyfriend. i couldn't resist exaggerating the teeth, dimples, and eyes--especially when business was slow.
average park sketch--boring! (sorry for the dirty edge lines--I have to get up early tomorrow and don't feel like cleaning them up now). This one happened to be a demo I didn't sell, though the family loved it and thought it looked just like him.

Where before I could now launch into the whole "artist hating his own sketch" rant, I'm currently trying to be content where I am in the process of "becoming." Furthermore, I realize that in the small world of caricatures it's only my little corner that I'm annoyed with. Big deal!

Time to Get Down to Business

A little somethin' from New Zealand's fourth-most popular folk parody duo

All Are Accepted Here

I've now allowed anyone to post comments--which includes those of you who do not happen to have an "invasive" gmail account and wanted to post. So feel free, do not keep your storied pomp from me!

Me

I started a drawing on a doodle page that turned out to be a self-portrait caricature. Anyone have tips on how to eliminate single-color marks/lines from an image? I had some marker doodles over part of this one that took me a couple of minutes to erase on Photoshop Elements (you may be able to see some of the "dirt" of my eraser in the hair).

Doyle Doodle

My family and I (the megafam, to be specific) just got back from a week's vacation in Orlando, FL. While we were there, we went to the ocean, fished for (and caught!) shark, played semi-alcohol influenced board games, and spent a lot of time laying around the pool and everywhere else. It was great to be together.
While I was waiting on something I saw an article on the Texas Hold 'Em tournaments abounding this time of year and picked up a pen and sketched from a photo of poker samurai Doyle Brunson. Well, he's actually more of a cowboy than a samurai...

GO

I've decided to stop procrastinating on a caricature/art blog of my own and so I'm starting here, 'perfection' aside. And with no further ado...
Ended up being a slow day at the zoo today and so I had some time to draw the guy who drives the trolley who happened to be walking by. Ronnie's a character--Santa specifically--and a talented man, always quoting Bogart and making kids laugh (not necessarily at the same time).

My scanner was too small to catch the edge of his chin whiskers and in the interest of time I just went with the given cropped image. I was happy with it (after my second try); ended up being an attempt to capture the mouth with his characteristic "See, shweetheart" action. Really it just made my day to hang out with Ron and draw him when business was down. He has one of those faces I feel like I could sketch differently every day, and enjoy.

Well, that's it. My first post. Off to a good start?