Event Drawings, part 1

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One of the cool things I get hired to do at events is to go out and actually draw the event. I do a large 18×24 black and white line drawing of the party, or whatever the event is, as it is proceeding. After drawing caricatures for 20+ years, I’m pretty quick at capturing likenesses, so I include any VIPs who need to be in the picture, and anyone else who stands out to me. ( I also usually hide myself in the drawings somewhere, when feasible). These samples are from a wedding I drew at:

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This client paid for gray toned paper and shading on their drawing, which is an option I offer. I can also do these digitally, on the iPad, when preferred. 

 

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Hey, that guy’s hair on the left looks awfully familiar….

 

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The Best Man’s toast! I love drawing groups of people, so this is a perfect fit for my talents. I’ll share a few more of these on my blog here in the upcoming days, as I locate the photos of them on my computer….

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Studio Caricature: Floyd Scholz

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Recent Work: Floyd Scholz

 

Here’s a more time intensive, studio caricature I did awhile back for a friend of mine, Floyd Scholz. Floyd is the MACK DADDY ( yes, that’s the official term ) of bird carving. The dude makes a boat load of moolah for his commissioned pieces, which is why he was the first person to make me seriously question if I had gone into the wrong area of art. Google him… his work is amazing.

Christmas in September

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Here’s some fun toony artwork I did recently for a mailer and some ads. Yep, there are companies out there that specialize in JUST Christmas Carol groups, and their big season is obviously fast approaching.  Check out these guys’ site…. they’re the BEST in the biz!  http://carolingcompany.com/

 

 

iPad Caricature: Sean Gleason

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I take a sketchbook and my iPad on any trip I go on. In the Summer particularly, we seem to travel a lot ( One of these days I am going to have to finish and publish one of the many autobio comic stories I have started of some of our trips).

Anyway, for today’s post, Here is a quick sketch iPad caricature I drew this Summer of a buddy of mine ( Hi, Sean! ) at the AMC ( Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita ) convention. ( Visit the AMC Support page at http://www.amcsupport.org/ )

“Drawing With the Mouse”

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At the upcoming International Society of Caricature Artists ( ISCA ) con, I’ve been asked to do a seminar on my last twenty ( ! ) years of drawing caricatures at Walt Disney World. I tweaked my recent self caricature a bit for the class, as you can see here:

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I’m a big fan of the new Mickey Mouse cartoons by Paul Rudish and the gang  ( http://blogs.disney.com/insider/articles/2013/06/25/making-a-new-generation-of-mickey-mouse-cartoons/ ), so I went with that style of Mickey for this.

My “class”, “lecture”, or whatever you want to call it, will be an overview of my history at Disney, and that of my company, Caricature Connection. I’ll be talking about our retail outlets , our artist talent agency, and my freelance work.  By the way, if you’ve never attended an ISCA con, you should! It is a caricature bootcamp and will whip you into shape! ( www.caricature.org ) I can’t recommend the organization highly enough!

iPad caricatures: Sherlock

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A quick iPad caricature of Benedict Cumberbatch of the latest Star Trek movie and Sherlock Holmes fame on BBC. Just playing around with some different brushes in Art Studio….

iPad Caricatures: James Thomas

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I’m not sure if it’s the upgrade to iOS7 or not, but for some reason this past week, ArtStudio on my iPad has been acting weird. Even basic tools like the Paint bucket have been working erratically. So, what do you do when the “normal” way you work doesn’t work anymore? Change the way you work! That’s what I had to do midway through a live digital caricaturing event I was performing at last week. I’ll see if I can find some of those pix and share them here. I went for a “rougher”, more natural tools looking style, instead of really smooth, slick brushes. I also colored on a lower layer, with a big brush rather than the aforementioned paint bucket, leaving some rim lighting within the lines. This is a drawing I did after the gig, of fellow caricaturist James Thomas, as I continued to play around in this new style. It kind of has a more illustrative quality, so I may keep doing stuff his way.

Beast Boy!

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Beast Boy!

Beast Boy!

Here’s my iPad version of Beast Boy from Teen Titans Go! I drew it in the great Art Studio app, just to take a break from my iPad caricaturing I’ve been doing so much of lately. Hope you like it!

A new “Me”.

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Drawing yourself is a real chore.  You always want to make yourself thinner, younger, whatever… but sometimes in my biz it’s necessary. Here’s my latest version of my mug for some upcoming appearances / lectures I’m going to be doing.