Caricature Stamp Machine

These days off are going to be so good for me. I think I've hit a brick wall in my park sketch. I can still do brilliant caricatures of adult and teenage couples and even the parents in a family sketch look great, but maybe it's because I draw 100 kids a week that they are all starting to look the same. On both Saturday and Sunday this week, I had a rejected sketch, because the parents didn't think that it looked like the child. They were wrong and just liked the style of the other artist that I was working with, but they were trying to be a polite as possible and ended up upsetting me anyway. I might flip through my Joe Bluhm book a few times over the next couple days and hopefully break out of my slump. Here are some sketches that I did this weekend. Some of them are pretty good, but some are just mediocre. Enjoy...

These kids were a lot of fun. I'm not really a HUGE fan of AC/DC, but I love drawing kids as Angus Young. Perhaps it feels a little rebellious to draw kids at a children's theme park as icons that have song titles like "Highway to Hell". Meanwhile the other kid wanted to play keyboards and I couldn't help, but draw him like Hall and Oates playing a Yamaha Keytar.

I love drawing couples and since I've been drawing an exorbitant amount of children, this drawing was super refreshing. They were really nice and full of energy. So I hooked them up. I even put the dragon coaster in the background.

I think that I can still draw beautiful asian girl caricatures. This one turned out exceptionally well, considering the amount of stress that I had that day. I didn't take a picture of the girl, but check out the sketch.

I was really bored when I first opened the booth and there wasn't a guest in sight, so I drew this t-shirt for my band.

They all wanted to be musicians. I love drawing musicians.

I love the suit, that I gave him. It is super loose and cartoony. He chose my caricature over a Joker facepaint, so that was a small victory.

GI Joe.

I've drawn a million jedi's over the last 4 years, but why is this one special? Because it proves that I can still get a good likeness.

It's not typical that I will draw more than one caricature of a child in a day, but what is even less typical for me is to draw one of the caricatures as a gender confused princess. The skeleton is really good in my opinion. It is cartoony yet proportional.

This was the last caricature that I did on Sunday. I only drew 9 people that day, which was heartbreaking considering I drew 35 people the day before. When I drew this sketch, I wanted to prove that I could still draw a great caricature with a good likeness of the person. I drew her really slow and really took my time, because I felt like it was the only way to compete with Taylor visually, because he draws half as fast as me.

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