Caricature Express

Beautiful weather today. Nice easy day for me - Face Painting in Central Park. Then I came home to this! I knew I gave Mark Simon permission to use the Artwork that I sent to him OVER A YEAR AGO, but I didn’t know that I was going to see his fabulous book TODAY.

I found 3 of my pictures in it - between the pages of 114 and 117.
It’s so funny - He so protected MY copyright that even I couldn’t lift the
pictures from his book to put them here on my blog. And I’m too busy
to start looking through a year’s worth of pictures to find the originals
here.

Here’s some quotes telling about his book.

Quote: Facial Expressions - E-Book

I have been asked by artists around the world to sell a digital version of Facial Expressions that they can load onto their computers. Now it’s here.

Facial Expressions Companion E-Book Volume 3 contains over 1,000 all new images, including over 60 works of art.

The first Facial Expressions book has been a best-seller since it came out two years ago. There is no better photo reference book on the market.

Facial Expressions Models

This edition also features a great new gallery, Age Progression. Now you can see how a face ages from being a baby and growing into an adult.

Facial Expressions Age Progression

Galleries include:

Skull Gallery
Expressions Gallery
Age Progression Gallery
Phonemes Gallery
Hats & Headgear Gallery
Leaning Gallery
Pointing Gallery
Extreme Close-Up Gallery
Art Gallery
- UnQuote.

Happy Day. It’s Fun to be an Artist.

Low Battery.
So Disappointing.

I did Fashion Sketches at Bloomingdales today. I don’t do Fashion Sketches often - Never used to advertise it. It was just something that
Some people knew I did, and, well…..

But now I want to do more Fashion Sketch Events.
In addition to regular Caricature Events and Face-Painting Events.
I’m really enjoying it.

3 Fashion-Sketch gigs ago, I developed a style that’s really good.
Today I decided to take photos - so I could start collecting lots of Samples.
I drew my first customer, took out my phone, tried to snap a photo,
But
Nothing. The screen said “Low Battery”.
The pictures were great. The people were great.
I had The Perfect Event for this. But no photos.
Low Battery.

Here are 3 practice pieces that I drew in a dark bar last night while
I was waiting for the Arkhams to come on. You can hear their wild music at www.myspace.com/thearkhams
There’s such a Style there. Some people really do it up.
Limited supplies. In the dark. And I still enjoyed drawing. I guess I’m real excited with it - something new:

And here are some Samples that I drew a while back -
when I designed this style:

And here are the original sketches from a long time ago when I was feeling my way for what would I draw for Fashion Sketches at an Event:

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I booked a last-minute gig for tomorrow.
In the city.

So here I am, midl of the night, and doing prepwork.
I use a different backpack when I travel by train
than when I travel by car. So much to bring - it can
get soooo heavy.

I just went through the time-off folder that I keep in
the NYC gig-backpack. Taking out some pictures to
make the backpack lighter for tomorrow. So many
people I see. So many ideas I draw. But what to
do with them all?

I love the web. I just picked a few - I can display
them here:

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(516) 579-4706
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You might Think that one job is the same as the next, but that’s not the case at all. Dogs, Excitement, Babies, Old-People. Markers, T-Shirts, Mats, Black/White, Color….

One of this weekend’s gigs was a Communion where I was to draw on T-Shirts. That’s such a different game than drawing on paper. Here are some pictures of the t-shirts (They’re still on the drawing board):

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(516) 579-4706
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Here it is, 2 am, and I’m drawing pictures from the World-Wide-Web again.
This one was F U N .
Here’s my picture and the reference picture I was drawing from.
It’s a picture of an Artist from
AUSTRALIA! What a world. His name is Terry Dunnett.

I call it ‘The Green Jelly’ because of the amorphic shape that inspired this picture.

The Green Jelly - lol. Our lives pass through our heads while we’re playing.
I wonder if anybody else knows the story of

THE GREEN JELLY - Whoooooooooo !

It was a ’scary story’ that was told around the campfire
when I was a kid at Camp Olympus. Children can think that
the whole world has the same experiences as they have
in their own small worlds. I had become an adult thinking that
‘The Green Jelly’ was as universal as Mickey Mouse or
Humphrey Bogart (and even they are not known Everywhere
in the world). Anyway, I’ll think of The horrible Green Jelly
as likely as I’d think of the ‘I Love Lucy’. (Ever hear of That?)

The Green Jelly was a lump of jelly that rolled through the town
enveloping people and anything in it’s path,
growing bigger
and Bigger
and BBBIIIIIIGGGGGEEEERRRR!!!!

Tonight I was playing with flopping Terry’s face around,
sort of the amorphic way that I imagined the Green Jelly to move.
I was just having fun - plaAAAy-Ying. And when we play, we
match things up freely from whatever we think of. Uninhibited.

Have You ever heard of The Green Jelly? Could it have originated
in some early Sci-Fi movie?

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