Getting Sketchy….

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Last night, best bud Ted Tucker and I ( http://tuckerarts.blogspot.com/ ) finally got together for a bit of “guy time”. We sat around talking, eating, and sketching. Just quick stuff, nothing involved. Brainstorming with a pencil, really. This is one of mine from the night, scanned in and colored in Photoshop.

I love Plastic Man, so I just had to draw him and his pal, Woozy Winks. Hey, that reminds me… go check out one of the blogs I follow, why dontcha? It’s all about “Plas”…
http://plasticmanplatitudes.blogspot.com/

Me at ISCA 09

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2009 ISCA Awards Ceremony – Part one

I have to get all of those “ums” out of my speech pattern. Ugh! It’s always horrible listening to yourself speak. But see, this is proof I was there! Told ya! Thanks for posting this one as well, Brian.

But “Keelam”? “Keelam”????LOL

Oh well, with my name you get used to it!

ISCA Caricature Convention 2009 – Part One

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All last week I was in beautiful Sandusky Ohio at the annual ISCA ( International Society of Caricature Artists Convention). I’ll try to upload my photos from it just as soon as I get caught up around the studio here. It was a week of fellowship, learning, and generally maligning each other in caricature form. LOL Yeah, let me tell ya, don’t EVER go to a caricature convention if you have a vanity issue! My forehead gets bigger, my nose more broken, my lips more “girly looking” each passing year in the drawings I get. I LOVE IT!!! It truly is ” Caricature College”.

There is a big competition factor to the convention, and a ton of amazing work is produced. Congrats to friends Glenn Ferguson ( overall winner… the “Golden Nosey”) and Marlo Meekins ( second place… “Silver Nosey”) and all the award winners.

I’ve competed a few times ( I got fourth overall one year), but haven’t done so in five years or so. All that drawing, all that pressure… it just seems too much like my everyday life… like “work”, ya know? So I made a firm deicision this year to just go and “hang out”. I drew when I wanted, IF I wanted, and who I wanted. With no concern about “competing”. So glad I did. It was a much needed “blast”. My only regret is that I had many people tell me they wish I HAD competed this year, that they wanted to see more of my work. Thanks for telling me that. To be honest, it made me wish at times that I had drawn more and competed, but overall I feel I made the right decision. Maybe next year…

As it was, I got to spend a week just sleeping in, staying out late, and hanging out with tons of talented artists. I saw many old friends, and made many new ones.

The video here was made by fellow ISCA member Brian Vasilik. Thanks so much for shooting it, Brian. And thanks to good pal Kenny Durkin for alerting me to it’s existence. Kenny and Jim “Daddy” Durkin and myself show up at just before the four minute mark, if you’re looking for us. If you’ve never been to an ISCA convention, what are you waiting for? The next one’s in Vegas, baby! Viva Las Vegas!

Cute Cute Cute

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A draw for a magazine client of mine pretty regularly, where the editor has me draw him in various scenes for his column in the magazine. For this issue, he wanted me to do a piece for them in a “Mary Blair-esque” style. No problem! I LOVE Blair’s work. So, I drew him in a “Small World” ride scene, since that ride was inspired by Mary Blair’s designs. I love her simple, bold, yet CUTE designs.

LiveDraw: Leany

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Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Been really busy. Been doing a few “Live Draw” gigs, where the client hires me to draw people “in action”, even without them knowing it. Pretty cool. I draw them from any view, side, rear, straight on, whatever… with very little posing. Actually, often with NO posing, like this guy. Total “Hit and Run”. I went and gave him his drawing when I was done. This one was done at a convention for Staffing companies. Great group of people who really liked the “Live Draws”.

Yeshua

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Drew my main man awhile back. Was from an old sketch, but a client contacted me for a bunch of biblical images, so I redid and colored this one. Hmmm… been reading about talits lately ( the scarf ), and now realize I should redo His on this piece. Gotta remember to do that….

Rodney Howard Browne

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I went and heard this anointed man of God, Rodney Howard Browne, teach at a local church last Sunday. Rodney is from South Africa and feels that God has sent him to be a missionary TO AMERICA. Tens of Thousands ( hundreds of thousands maybe? ) have come to Christ here and abroad through his ministry. Really inspiring.

This, by the way, is my ballpoint pen caricature of Rodney as he taught. Yeah, drawing in church. LOL. Actually, whether you want to blame it on the ADD one doctor told me I have, or just on my “artist’s brain”, I pay better attention WHEN I’m drawing. I’m guessing a lot of artists are that way…

Hot off the Wacom: Hiking Couple

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Did this job recently for a new client. This is one of a series for various usages, including on their website. The description I had for this illo was that it was just supposed to be a young, twentys-ish guy and girl out hiking.
This was my original sketch. I liked the guy’s hair here, but they didn’t. Oh well. So, I changed it for them on the final.

Lex Luthor!

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When “The Toony Bin” http://toonybin.blogspot.com/ character design challenge site had “MAD Scientist” as their challenge, I HAD to try a toony Lex Luthor. Soon, I’ll try to color and post the Superman I did as a companion piece. Hope you like my Lex!