Caricature Express

This one I did
standing up.
With limited old dried out markers.
a Quick Cac.

Actually, I was just trying to quickly try out the new Walk-Around Drawing Board that I just designed - Always trying to perfect’ my materials - make them as comfortable as possible. So I just grabbed any ol’ markers that were laying around here.

I am much more comfortable - yes, things just keep getting better and better.
But I still don’t fuss carefully over a picture done standing. It just doesn’t feel
the same as drawing while sitting. Just like neither of those approaches feel the
same as drawing vertically on an easel.

Walk-around is fine for Party Entertainment.
Even though I still prefer sitting for the Artwork.
Parties each have their own personality, and the
Entertainer has to do what the Party needs.

It’s all good.

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This picture was Sooo hard for me. To stick to my original idea of
scrunching up one side of the face as in the last photo. But I didn’t give up.

The vision - what I want to draw - that’s the art - that’s the part that some people fake - never even knowing what to see - how to see it. And then, even if they could imagine it, not pushing themselves to draw that vision. But I have drive. I’m really interested. For myself. I want to be inspired - I want to find my own ideas. And I want to figure out how to bring them to fruition. Even if other (plainer) pictures would be passable since nobody else knows an Artist’s visions. They don’t know what’s inside us, or if there even Is anything there.

Without that, the Artist is just a sham.

Just like nobody else really knows what we think - what we feel. Unless we choose to admit our truths. To be true to ourselves. Our feelings. Our desires. Our visions.

Sometimes it’s harder than other times. Sometimes we don’t feel inspired.
Sometimes we don’t know how to express that appropriately (visually when
I’m working as an Artist). But without it, Life is Just Work.

I choose to really live the full life - to take advantage of all the time I have -
to do it Now - this very moment.

To Hire this Artist:
(516) 579-4706
optidust@gmail.com

Whatever your political views, you gotta admit that this guy must be drawn.
I saw him in a movie, and I just had to stop and draw him:

“Aw, you can do better than that, Alison” I told myself.
So then I drew this one:

The reason I drew the first one is because I’m searching for a quick easy way to make party Caricatures - so I wouldn’t have to work/focus so hard when I’m at the party. But it’s just not as good. I can do these high-quality Caricatures if I give it the effort, and it’s really worth it. Still goes pretty fast, but I feel compelled to skip the extra steps it involves when my clients push me to focus on quantity.

I really like the 2nd picture better.
So I gave it a litl more effort.
Added in some shading:

And then - Photoshop! I added in a wild background. Just for fun:

(I hope you realize that I’m drawing Al Franken here)

To Hire this Artist:
(516) 579-4706
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I’m really getting in to this.
I usually work in Color, so I decided to practice before going to
tomorrow’s party - Client requested Black and White. And I’m really
getting in to this. I like it:

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(516) 579-4706
optidust@gmail.com

I was just studying the asymmetry of faces - Pictures look so much more interesting when we are aware of the graceful changes from one side of the face to the other. Because they’re connected - like a vine.

To increase my awareness of that, I just took photos of two random people, put them into PhotoShop, and cut each picture in half. then I flipped the remaining half over - to see just what each side of the face is doing. I have so many gigs this week, but I hope I get back to this to draw them properly - Connecting the changes gracefully.

Here’s a photo of a woman. I duplicated one side. Then I duplicated the other side. Her differences are mostly in the mouth and eyebrows. Notice how much more approachable people look when we see the two differing sides in one face:

And here’s a photo of a boy. I duplicated one side. Then I duplicated the other side. His differences are mostly in the nose and eyebrows:

I could have done this with anybody. All people are uneven, unique. I want to train myself to be able to notice the differences right away.