Happy Halloween!

A page from my sketchbook, with a little digital polish....

Two caricatures with their owner...

I finally got a photo of my daughter Charlotte with her two recently-drawn caricatures: one by the wonderful Jan Opdebeeck ( colored pencil) and one by yours truly (digital).

It's that time of year.....

...Halloween!
This is an Ebony pencil drawing I did a few years ago, of a character from one of my favorite movies...long live Eye-gor!

Sweet 16 party

Last night, I drew color caricatures at a lavish sweet-16 party with an Evening-in-Paris theme. (My beret was completely appropriate here!)
Here are some of the teens:

Revised Hillary and Obama

My friend Paul Moyse (his blog is in my list) pointed out to me on our NCN forum that Hillary's and Obama's faces lined up in an uncomfortable tangent. So I played around with different backgrounds and perspectives...(and thanks for the constructive criticism, Paul!)

I'm still not sure if this is the final version, but seeing the process of other artists' creations has helped me in the past, so that's why I am sharing mine.

Finished--(I think)-- Hillary and Obama!

It's mostly finished, anyway. I may want to think of a humorous caption for one or the other of these two, or blur Obama a bit as he is behind her, but this is what I have at the moment. Photoshop is finally fun for me, now that I am more adept with it.

Preliminary digital sketch

I have been learning from Joe Bluhm's digital podcasts on Photoshop (link is in my list). Thanks, Joe!

Midweek, mid-day gig...

An enterprising big corporaton nearby included my caricatures as part of their annual United Way drive. During their lunch break, people donated whatever they wished in a big jar behind me, which filled up quickly. It was a very relaxed, dressed-down event, held in their cafeteria, with the next face arriving as I finished the previous person...
One funny little side note: two of the ladies who saw me at the women's convention I did on October 12, happen to work at this company! They came up and were exclaiming what a small world it is.... :-)

Saw possibilities in an unfinished sketch from the con...

At the recent NCN convention in Reno, I began a marker-and-artstix drawing of amazing caricature-sculptress Brooke Howell. She looks entirely different every year and therefore is always a popular subject. Sadly, my sketch didn't see the light of day again til today, when inspiration struck...so here it is, Brooke!

Her blog is in my links list amd her website is
www.brookehowell.com.

My daughter loved her birthday gift, happily!

Another 'outdoors-gig then indoors-gig' Saturday...

This breezy-but-nice afternoon I arrived at a local college's Family Day to find this:

That's the first time a client ever did this-- printing my self-caricature from the agent's site as well as spelling 'caricature' correctly! :-)
Here are some of the afternoon's faces...


My evening was spent at a cozy little church function. This gentleman wanted a caricature to put at the front of his school bus!