Caricature Express

I recently did some quite tame drawings at a Bar Mitzvah.
It’s the Small Caricatures in Mats Option:

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I finally figured out how very small I’d have to start my drawing in order to exaggerate consistently on the Small-Size Option. Some of the really good photos from this party came out too fuzzy. Still, I’m glad I got plenty to show:

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So, as I was saying last night,
when we say that we like the Artwork or not,
what we’re really saying is whether we like
the Artist’s Personality or not.
Whether we like the Artist or not.

That’s probably why the Artist takes
people’s reactions so personally.
Why we want people to like ‘our Artwork’.
Because what it’s really saying is
whether or not you like Me.

I usually get my accollades through my pictures.
That’s probably why I keep doing it.
Here are some of my pictures.
One is from a company-party who hires me back
again every year. The other is a party where they
really want me to stay overtime - but all I could give
them was an extra half-hour because I was already
committed to going to a 2nd party that day:

And I wonder, why do we like one style more than another?
‘Confidence’ is admirable, but so is ‘trying’.
Why wouldn’t I, for instance, not like the ‘trying-too-hard’ style
that I mimicked for you last night? What’s wrong with that?
What’s wrong with a person who really Wants to do well,
who focuses on it so intensely.

Even some grown-ups and senior-citizens fall into the
school-age crap about ‘liking the cool kid’. And some
like ’safe’ - classical and reserved - just doing it right
with nothing new added.
Just like ‘the Artist is always drawing herself’, we could
also say that ‘the Viewer is always seeing himself’.
It’s the Viewer’s Personality that determines whether
or not he likes what the Artist does.

Art is so personal. Bringing it ‘out there’ is really taking
a chance. Hoping for Love. Or at least, acceptance.

Thank you to all the Wonderful People that I meet while
doing this.

And just as important as being accepted by You,
I hope I can also love my Artwork,
no matter how my experiences leave me drawing.
(And no matter how my experiences make me look,
I hope I will always love and care for what what I see.)

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These are some pictures that I drew at a company-Party.
I figure this is a chance to show you what the Small Mats
look like. The Small Size limits how freely I can create the
pictures, but it looks a little less casual than
the unmatted Choice. I still say that the Large Matted Caricatures have the best of both worlds. The Artist feels free to let the picture flow AND the presentation looks Real Niiiice:

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A wild party. Loud music, small space, lots of kids being encouraged to ‘dance’ (jump around and wiggle) by the dj. On the one hand, I wonder what it is that we’re teaching them. On the other hand, I wonder if we’re not teaching them anything anyway - we’re just enabling them to do the things that kids naturally do.

Here are some of the pictures I drew.
My natural tendency is to question things, but through this job of working at Parties, I’ve learned to give it up and just jump in. It’s fun.

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