Beasting in the Park.

After the wedding gig, I tried to beast a few of the customers the next day.

The End of Summer and a Wedding

The summer is almost over and I have hardly posted anything. In the past, I posted every sketch that I did and I put up a lot of mediocre work that I wasn't necessarily proud of. So now, I am only going to post some of my favorite sketches and leave the mediocre ones for my hard drive.

For some reason this summer, I really embraced people that wanted to be fishing. Fishing was a huge part of recreational culture growing up in the midwest and I feel like I have to keep that part of me alive.

Storm from the X-men (I never drew Storm before, so I wasn't sure what her costume looked like, so I just put an X on her chest)


These sketches were from a gig that I did last week. They are a little crazy and loose, but that's the freedom that you get from drawing people that are having a good time.

I'll post some more next week.

Summer is finally here!

So, the park is finally starting to fill up again and despite the fact that the waterpark is seeming to deter potential customers away, I am drawing more sketches than I was 6 months ago and loving it. I forgot my camera a few days ago and I regretted not being able take a picture of this couple that I drew, but I gave them my email address and told them to email me a photo of it. That never works. Either they follow through and end up taking a bad photo that I can't use or the just never follow through. So alas, this time I remembered to bring it the last two days and here are a few that I managed to snap.

I hope that Optimus doesn't see Bumblebee snoozin' on the job.


It was her birthday, so I made her look young and youthful. Her husband told me that he wanted her to look like Pamela Anderson.


This young lad stopped by to ask the price, so that his grandchildren could get drawn tomorrow. I never thought I would see him again, so I convinced him to sit down for a few minutes, so that I could draw him for free.

The King of KPT

I haven't updated since last summer, but it isn't because I haven't been drawing caricatures. I've decided to upload some new sketches to kick off the summer. I am going to try to upload a few a week, so stay tuned.

Trophy Wife

High School Sweethearts

The King and Princess of Soccer




Scuba Boy



Smalls and Andrea

Slash

Ricky, Stephan, and Karl

Exaggerations

When I came back from my weekend on Thursday, I was determined to take my sketches up a level. I was making a lot of sales in previous weeks, but I was starting to feel like the quality of my sketches was lacking. I was getting great likenesses, but for some reason, people weren't gravitating to me to get drawn. I had a few customers have my sketches re-drawn by other artists and felt like if I was going to have my sketches rejected, then they were going to be as a result of extreme exaggeration and not as a result of taste. On Sunday, I only drew 11 people, but I made all 11 count and all of them were masterpieces. I had two clients question the likeness based on taste, but only one of them walked off before I finished the drawing. My camera was out of batteries on Sunday, so I couldn't take any photos, but I told the best ones to email me a copy. Be sure to take a look at how much I pushed things compared to previous weeks. You won't be disappointed.

This was the first sketch that I drew to kick off my week. I don't particularly like Harry Potter, but I enjoyed the energy that this character allowed.

Nice Indian Couple from Northern California

This little girl was so full of energy, that I never thought I would get a decent likeness. She was running around the booth and carrying on, but I think that I was able to capture her.

These people watched me draw the previous two sketches and had to get drawn by me.

This lady was a really great sport. She wasn't really happy about how I made her look, but her husband loved it so much that he got drawn as well.

This kid brought it back at the end of the day and wanted more waves and clouds in the background. He wanted it to look like the gangster above, but I'm not really sure what he expected.

3/4 View

I asked if he wanted to get his kids drawn and he said, "No, just me." I couldn't believe it, so I hooked him up.

She said that she wanted to be drawn smiling, so I gave her a huge smile.

One of the best babies, I've ever drawn.

These two South African boys were very polite and talkative. I liked the robot on his hat.

Taylor and I split this family. He drew the kids and I drew the parents. I was feeling competitive so I tried to really exaggerate their features, especially the fu manchu.

Her husband made her get drawn, she looked at it and laughed and when I asked to take her picture, she walked off.

I love that she got drawn with a ukulele.

Christian Bale

From a picture of a previous customer.