A company party at Lucas Oil Stadium.
They wanted pre-drawn bodies, a football player for the men and a cheerleader for the women.
And at about the last half hour the company’s organizer sat and asked me to do him just as he was.
From then on most other people wanted “just as they are” drawings as well.
Doing some preliminary, start-up sketches in the sketchbook using the iPad for reference.
Today I drew for a family reunion.
Done for Caricaturama Showdown 3000.
Apparently his job had something to do with screws.
This was one of my favorite westerns when I was a kid. Lately I’ve been running the DVDs on the auxiliary computer while I work. (All day alone in a studio can get lonely with the sound of other human voices!)
Every week the Facebook group Caricaturama Showdown selects a face and caricaturists from around the world do their interpretations. This week it’s Björk, an Icelandic singer of some reknown. This is the first time in quite awhile that I’ve participated in the CS offering. Had a little time between jobs.
Simon Mayo the other half of Kermode & Mayo’s Film Review.
No, I didn’t draw these 34 heads in 17 seconds, I just decided to try using an animated GIF to briefly show all 34 heads. These were done for a corporate awards job. They will be placed in a format I designed and printed out to be presented to the winners from all over the world.
Here’s a piece I did for myself, not something I get time to do very often.
While exercising I listen to a lot of podcasts but lately I’ve been listening to only one, BBC 5 Live’s Kermode & Mayo’s Film Review. I decided to do a caricature of the two of them, here’s the first one, Dr. Mark Kermode, (That’s pronounced KER-mode. He’s touchy about that!)
I just wrapped another studio job. The client wanted his boss drawn as a cowboy but he wanted the horse to be wearing a tank top particular to the boss so I had to design it so the horse’s chest was also visible. The full art will be printed on playing cards.
The head art on poker chips.
Sunday afternoon the Pacers Organization held a dinner to honor the staff of the Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Here are the caricatures I drew there.
These drawings are the illustrations for a “children’s book” marriage proposal. The client wrote the story of his meeting and subsequent relationship with his intended bride in a children’s book format and had me do the art. Really rather charming and I hope she says “yes” because there will be no refund!
Last night I drew for a NYE house party.
I have the World’s Greatest Mail Carrier, seriously - I do. As a Christmas gift to honor his excellent service I offered to do a caricature of him. As many things do, this project mushroomed into something about four times as complex as I had intended but it resulted in a fun piece. Bob, the mailman, is a massive Indy car race fan and has family ties therein. He told me that he and his wife were devastated by the death of Dan Wheldon and that his nephew once was on Wheldon’s team. So he wanted a piece with his nephew (the guy with the shades, the only photo I was given), Wheldon and the nephews current driver/boss Charlie Kimball. And Bob, the one on the left. With the setting being the Indy track garage area with the pagoda.
Realize, Inc. contacted me to caricature 8 new hires since last I drew their staff for the Realize web site.
Last night I drew at the holiday party for Pepper Construction of Indiana. Navigating downtown traffic and parking just before the Big Ten Game was an adventure!
Night 2 of the 2 year anniversary celebration at Stuart’s Steakhouse in Sheridan, IN.
Last night was the first of two nights at Stuart’s Steakhouse in Sheridan, IN.
Companies and corporations often book me to come in and caricature all of their employees (or all members of a particular team or department) but then months or years later new people will be added to that group and they will want them included. To that end I offer a service, when it’s not as feasible for them or me to go in to their location to draw two or three folks, they can email me photos of the new hires and I’ll draw them in my live style using the same materials. These two are from that category done for the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice to be included on their wall.
