Caricature Express

I was just daydreaming over my recent pictures -
that’s what I do. Decided to focus on line-quality.
Redrew one of the pictures that I just posted on
February 16th. Not that there was anything wrong
with the original. Just - what if - Just trying something
Different:

That was interesting. So I decided to try it again.
But this time I got side-tracked. Ended up redoing
one of those February 16th Caricatures - which distracted
me from studying Line Quality:

Makes me wonder - Do we ever really change?

The Answer is Yes! But it’s not an overnight thing -
not usually something like - “Now I’m going to draw
like This.” No. It’s a gradual thing. As we try new
things, as we think new ideas, as we practice.
We don’t see immediate Change
any more than we can see a baby grow from one day to the next.
But one day, we recognize that that baby is a lady.
And one day we recognize that our Artwork is Really Good!

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Maybe I don’t have enough deadlines or something.
But I just spent my time dreaming about a word that
I wrote on one of the Caricatures that I posted yesterday.

First, I was thinking that it would have been better
if I predrew the letters bfore inking. It’s always a
toss of the coin during party-work -
to predraw or not to predraw.
So here I tried it again:

Eh. A hodgepodge. Would it be better if I decided
ahead of time whether twould be AnglesAnglesAngles
or gloppy curves?

That took too much thinking to be done in a Party
situation. Oh well, Party Art is immediate. Fast and
in the moment. The Artist has to let people really
see her - unedited and raw.

But there are other options. Curly writing, of course,
but that isn’t usually wanted on Boy’s Pictures.
Calligraphy. I think that one of the first considerations
should be Spacing. The Graffiti stuff I just posted above
is tight. Perhaps I could use expanded simple letters sometimes:

Or not playing with Spacing at all. Not squashed together, and
not expanded out. How about Speed and Bravado:

It’s all good.
Then I got to designing something that Looks like the meaning of
the word? With Line-Quality:

That doesn’t look like the meaning of the word.
But I feel finished - Don’t feel like working on it any more. Just now.

I’m thinking - maybe I’ll keep up to date on posting Party Pictures this year.
Here it is, Monday, and I’m already posting photos from Sunday’s Bar Mitzvah.
It was wild. The Bar Mitzvah boy was one of Seven children in his Family.
Friends and Relatives - Lots.

So I just focused on doing my job. Drawing good pics quickly.
Trying to keep Everybody happy. That means, as usual, that
I don’t really pay much attention to the photographs that I snap
for this blog. I just aim in the general direction, and figure that
I’ll see whatever I see when I get back to the Studio.

Once again, I’m touched by how kind, sensitive, extremely caring
some people can be. When I downloaded the photos off my phone,
I was struck by one young boy who was so amazingly aware (and talented) -
the last one in the following pictures. He was one of the last people
who I drew - very quickly - I wanted to draw as many people as possible.
Now that I see the photo, I see that he tried to imitate the funny
way I drew his mouth. Just being kind to the artist in such a quick moment.

To all of you wonderful people - just out there to have a good time -
you people who are so open to appreciating whatever it is that
I have to offer — I love you all.

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It’s my new iphone. Apparently it’s so easy to use
that I took soooooo many photos. I can’t possibly post
them all. But here’s a few more from this weekend’s
Levittown Winter Event:

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Happy Day. Working at a local Community Center.
A pleasant-looking man sits down for his picture.
“I’m usually the one with the crowds around Me”, he says.
Apparently, he’s a famous fighter - was recently signing
autographs at the big Comic-Con in the city.

He went out to his car and came back with a signed autograph
for me. Note the problem that frequently comes up when
people ask me to draw from photographs. They don’t look
like their photographs! This one shows a typical problem
with photographs. His hair looks absolutely black in the
untouched photograph. It happens because of the
lighting and the camera:

I’m going to take this opportunity to quickly upload a few
more pics from today’s event. It was great to be alive -
or rather, drawing live at events:

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