Caricature Express

I finally had a (cellphone) camera with me during
a Fashion Sketch event, and wouldn’t you know….
it wasn’t my best drawing day.

My work is professional enough, tho, that everybody
was thrilled with their pictures. And the woman in
charge of these Bloomingdales events is hoping
that I’ll be available to do it at another one of their stores
next week. So Yay! If our schedules mesh, I’ll get
another chance to do them - I’ll be perfect next time -
I just know it (Lol - and some day I’ll be a perfect person.)

Anyway, here are some of the pictures that I drew
today. They look fine. The drawing just could have
been more fun for me if I was feeling freer:

What happened was that I asked the guests to pose
on the pedestal with the other mannekins. I thought
that would be a good experience for them - which it
was. For them. But not for me. It was only after
the show was over that I realized that it made it
intimidating for me. And I played with the guests -
had them ’strike a pose’. And that made me (and
the drawing) feel controlled.

It was a very successful event.
The guests really enjoyed what my client
was offering them. But I like to do Best. Everything.
For the client, the guests, AND myself. What it is
to be an Artist. Why I do it.

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Constant learning. This is why it’s better to hire an
EXPERIENCED Caricaturist.

I’ll frequently Review my performance after an event.
The photos help me do that.

In this case, even if I had had more time to prepare for my last-minute job,
I wouldn’t have known that I would have preferred making the Uniforms
more uniform. I didn’t know that until after I experienced the event.
Well, now I’m ready for the next one. Almost. I still hope to tweak the uniforms,
but I don’t want to stay up ALL night just reviewing what I’ve done already.

It was Fun - to redraw some of those Boy Scouts from the photos that
I just posted. Even though I was trying to come up with a Uniform uniform,
I still had to redraw the Caricatures.

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Here are some of the Boy Scouts that I drew recently.
Had to go real fast - so Outline Only was requested.
They’re okay. But I think the Artwork comes out better
if I’m not rushed to Produce Produce Produce. Well, at least the kids had Fun:

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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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Yeow. Client just came to the Studio.
Brought me a deposit for
TONIGHT.

So much to prepare.
And she wants me to draw Outline-Only -
because she wants to get as many pictures
as possible in the given time.

I don’t usually do Outline-Only -
It feels more like
cranking them out
than doing Artwork.
But it is an Option I offer.

So now - get ready to draw a lot of Boy Scouts.
First I wanted to see what would happen if I choose a Yellow Outline -
If Golden-Boy sits in front of me:

Good thing I practice first. I can see that
that isn’t a good idea. I had to increase the time on that picture
by going back in with the black marker. The Yellow didn’t show up.

Okay. I hope I stick to Black Outlines. Or Blue. Or Orange…..

But what if someone sits down who has dark skin -
Here I’ll try one in which I add just a little bit of Shading.
Sometimes, you just can’t stop with Just the outline:

And……………
We’re Off!