August 8th
This girl and her little brother insisted on having their eyes bug out every time I looked at them, so that's how I drew them. Their family seemed to think that I drew the little boy super cute, but I jacked up his eyes a little.
August 9th
I've been drawing after J. a lot when I have been coming in after work and people insist on having their kids drawn by him until he completely exited the park. However, I was able to sneak this little boy past him. I feel like I really got his nose and grin and he was pretty happy with it as well.
These kids were pretty fun to draw. I think this might be the cutest baby that I've ever draw and I don't think that pacifier hurt the drawing any. I would've liked to have drawn the little boy as well as I drew his sister, but I figure if I can at least get one cute face out of the two, I didn't do too bad.
This kid just came from Hawaii, so I drew him on a desert island.
I love drawing families, but I still haven't really come up with a good way to get everyone to fit in there very well. The youngest child always looks good, but by the time I get to the father, there is almost no room to work with. I am almost tempted to start with the father and move from right to left...at least the baby won't have the biggest head...
These kids were pretty cool. I don't think they could decided right away what they wanted to be drawn as. I think at first the parents wanted to get the whole family drawn, but it was getting late and they just got the boys. I think that I might have suggested a rocket and I hooked them up with something that would've looked modern in the 1950's.
August 10th
This family dispersed before I could take their picture, but it was a decent likeness...they all seemed to like it.
Mario and Luigi. The kid on the right assumed that I had never drawn Mario in my life and that I had never even see a picture of him, because he felt the need to even tell me that Mario had an "M" on his hat and Luigi had an "L".
This one was pretty typical and unexciting, but I think that it looked cute and I captured her smile pretty well.
Father/Son, Mario/Luigi's have become my favorite caricatures to draw. It seems like it's been pretty recent that I've been getting these requests, but they seem to turn out well every time. I stayed an hour later to finish this one and I listened to them talk about staying in some luxury hotel and having a Lexus, a Jaguar, and a pimp SUV back in Texas, but they didn't even let me keep the 6 cents change.
August 11th
Saturdays at Castle...Boy, do I loath them. As mentioned in previous posts, the Castle stand just sends out bad vibes. Whether it's the fact that there is never any customers until after noon and you opened at before ten or the fact that the person coming in at noon is never there when they are supposed to be, the whole day just seems too long and I just want to leave as soon as I get done opening. As a result of my boredom, I drew this guitar and a few simple bodies on some scrap cardboard to pass the time. I didn't think that they looked too bad, so I took pictures of them.
The day started to pick up and I sort of zoned into my own little world once I started drawing people. This kid had his tongue out the whole time, so I drew it that way. He looks a few years older in the caricature than I would've liked, but he'll grow into it.
The likeness of this one was a stretch, but I liked my subtle execution of the pregnant bikini and the cute baby with a shovel and a pale. They ended up getting a matte and frame, so I didn't mind that it didn't look much like them.
I never know what they are going to think when they see how I draw their teeth, if the smile gets bigger, I did a good job.
This kid didn't speak English, so his mother translated to me that he wanted to be riding on a yellow dirt bike and have long hair blowing in the wind to show how fast he was going. His brother made fun of him and said that he looked like a girl, but I don't think he minded.
Father/Son, Mario/Luigi...Classic.
It was good likeness. She looks cute.
This guy was with his daughter and he really wanted her to get draw. She resisted for awhile and he said that he would get one if she got one. He wanted to be drawn as a Klingon and although I had only drawn Vulcan's before, I knew this would be a challenge. I am not a Trekkie. I haven't even seen all the motion pictures, but I did see Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country. That movie was filled with Klingon's and so I used that movie as my reference. I drew the uniform like in the movie and the guy's wife told me that I drew it wrong and I had to fix it...I got it figured out eventually and he loved it, but you've gotta cross your fingers when you are crossing someone with a sci fi character that you know nothing about...
This is his daughter. Good likeness...I like the dolphin as well.
I think that this was his son. He was super quiet.
By the time, I got to this drawing. I had enough of working at the Castle stand and my sketches felt like they were getting worse and worse. Luckily, T. showed up from his gig and I was able to bail out of there with little to no conflict.
August 13th
I got Sunday off and when I came back in on Monday, I was still exhausted. The red-head had a really goofy face and while I was drawing her, I wished that I had the skills of Joe Bluhm, so that I could really draw her ridiculous. I did my best and they were both happy.
This girl seemed frozen, so I tried to draw her that way.
I love drawing caricatures at a theme park in the summer because you get to hear interesting stories about people. Apparently, the guy on the left is the long lost brother of the guy on the right and they just met for the first time, earlier in the week. They seemed really different, but I think that makes for good caricatures. At the end, when I offered them a matte and a frame, their mother says, "I don't need a frame. I can frame pictures myself. I am a serious artist..." At first, I was sort of offended that she was judging my talent as an artist, by the way that I choose to make a living, but then I figure she had to be poor and unemployed or else I probably would've heard of her.
August 14th
Just another Jedi.
She turned out kinda cute, but I didn't think it was a good likeness.
I felt like a little exaggeration...it was one of my best over the past two weeks.
August 15th
This guy was pretty cool. He wanted to know where the cool people hung out in San Diego on Wednesday nights. I had no idea, I was working.
This kid approached the stand with 3 other kids and his mother. I was willing to give them a discount. If you get 3 kids drawn, then I'll throw in the 4th one for free. They only wanted two of the kids draw and felt like a fair counter offer was Buy one, get one free...it's not hamburgers, it's caricatures.
These fellas were cool...They had a hard time sitting still and the little one was a little cranky, but I think that I got a good likeness.
I think that her grandpa was Santa Claus.
It seemed like it took forever to finish this one, but I eventually got it done.
Fin.
1 comment:
cool stuff gaNGSTER! looks good dude
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