Caricature Express

It’s that time again. A lot of Studio Caricatures been coming my way.
I never cease to be amazed at how each one is different ~
each client is different. Each picture is different.
Each experience is different.

This time I was booked to draw at the older girl”s 5th Birthday Party. My client, having seen my blog, decided that it would be a good idea to draw the Birthday Girl and her sister ahead of time. To have it on display. To make sure they’d have time to be drawn….. So she also ordered a Studio Caricature. Good. That’s nice.

Then the Agreement arrived. Ummmm, on it the Mother wrote that the girl is sensitive. So I shouldn’t accentuate ‘certain features’. Ummmm. Lol. Which features doesn’t she like? These girls look like absolute Dolls! Did you ever see anyone so cute??? And anyway, how am I supposed to make it look like them if I’m not free to work with what I See? Has she seen this blog??? I thought this really shows how I see things, how I draw things.

Okay. I start drawing. Thinking Beauty. Lovely. Beauty. Lalala. And here’s what I came up with. I love it. Feels perfect. But it’s black/white. I was hired to make a Color Caricature. Oh.

So I went to the Office Supply Store. Made a photocopy on Shiny Paper. And Matted it as an extra freebee for my client. Because I thought that Color would ruin it. I’ll post the Color copy when I have it.

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

Hi! I haven’t been to my blog for a while, but I sure have been thinking of you all. I feel like I’ve been drawing the whole world during this time - Just took another Thousand (that’s not an exaggeration) photos off my camera. Only have time to show a few of them just now:

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

Well, I worked this Party last Autumn, but I haven’t shown you the photos yet.
I have thousands of them sitting here on my desktop.
I thought this might be fun to post today.

It was a Halloween Party in which everyone was to dress ‘cross-gender’. Much fun.
The people were so kind - it was fine to see how they played.
But actually, it put me, the Artist, into a cunundrum - Should I draw men looking feminine? Should I draw women looking masculine? Or should I just draw the male costume on a face that looks feminine if it’s really a woman underneath, sort of thing. And it was also difficult because they were already acting out - already trying to caricature themselves through their outrageous activity. Whenever that happens, it confuses the real Caricature that I would see. For example, someone with a small mouth might put on lipstick and open his mouth real wide - If I draw him with a wide mouth, it doesn’t look like him. But that’s what I’m seeing - that’s what he’s flashing at me.

Luckily I just like to be with people. The good thing about Real Artwork (my job) is that I can’t Know the answers before I draw them. Always. (An ‘artist’ who does that is just a ‘crank’).

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

Here are some more pictures from the event that I started showing here
on December 31, 2009. I draw them so quickly at events - give them away
of course. I love when I get a chance to go through my photos - to see what I’ve drawn.
Yeah - That’s goooooood.

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