caricatures- Kutztown Univeristy gig + Shani! (APRIL 2009)

Here's some quick ones at a recent gig at Kutztown University in PA. I also drew with my friend John O'Connell--

1. I should have indicated his hair darker. actually, I should have done that for a bunch of them below...maybe in the future I should do some grays tones too.

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4. I like that continuous line of her hair to around her face and his hair around his face.

5. eh.

6. I like this one except for the unecessessasesssaarry lines in her hoodie.

7. connect line of chin to other forehead. this one is happy...

8. ...this one they look sad, heh. but they were happy once they saw the sketch. hooray!

9. the guy on the left gave me a high five afterwards, heh.

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12. I thought this one looked more like her, but looking at it with that picture I took, not so much...she is smiling in the pic though so that never helps when I drew her more neutral.

13. so this girl sits down, and I ask, "so, have you ever gotten a caricature done before?" and she goes, "yes, by Joe Bluhm" I was like-- wait, what?! because the fact that you know who Joe is is pretty impressive, unless you are a caricature artist than pretty much everyone knows Joe's work. and turns out she's a fellow caricature artist from the same company I work for, Kaman's Art Shoppes, at Hershey Park. also my buddy and co-worker, Alex Clare, worked with her for a month when he visited Hershey last year as well. so not only did Joe draw her, but Alex drew her and they both have seriously phenomenal sketches. so yeah, there's pressure, heh. anyhoo, I wanted to do a good one for her and it didn't end up as well as I hoped, I think I was caught off guard and was in "draw quick mode." plus, I never do just a black and white one for ones I want to do a good one for so it threw me off. anyhoo, hopefully I can do a good one for Shani sometime. that neck I drew is horrible, ugh...

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15. last one of the gig, they had fun contrasting faces.

In general, I'm not a fan of doing just black and white caricatures, as I like to leave my lines open and do a lot more with color so I think it looks more obvious weird if I don't color it. So to make up for it, I change up my style and tend to add more lines/rendering than I normally would (which even still isn't much). I was actually relatively happy with the overall sketches and everyone seemed to enjoy what I was doing and having a good time so that's always good. I enjoy drawing the college crowd.

Caricatures: Aaron Philby, Nate Kaps, Sam Gorrie, Marlo Meekins and more (OCT. 2006)

here's a bunch more old October/ November 2006 caricature sketches of some fellow caricaturists. A lot of them I'd do differently now, but still fun to see how I handled them back then.

Aaron Philby. one of my favorite caricature artists. I like how his ear doubles as the mouse's ear. mousey eats cheese.

"Mona Lisa" I like the concept here, heh.

Marlon Huynh. eh, eyes are pretty off. actually, most of this one is a failure.

Gabe Hunt. Mr. 9ine

"art ninja"

Nate Kapnicky. another of my favorite caricature artists. he really jacks people's faces up. I like the lip over face idea. poop eater!? you're sick, chris chua!

Mark

Marlo Meekins. eh- not liking it too much now. Marlo's art is crazy and awesome.

Mike Giblin- does REALLY great cartoony fun caricatures with great likenesses.

Steve Hearn

Terry

Niall O Loughlin

Welly

Nelson Santos

Sam Gorrie!

Caricatures: Loco & Mick (OCT. 2006)

a couple more fellow caricaturist oldies from October 2006

Caricatures: Joe Bluhm & Marco Bucci (OCT. 2006)

here's a couple more old sketches done in OCT. 2006

Illustrator/caricaturist extraordinaire, Joe Bluhm

fellow NCN, caricaturist, Marco Bucci

Caricature: Ed Steckley, Glenn Ferguson (OCT. 2006)

two more of fellow caricaturists done in October 2006.

Ed Steckley. eh. ok. I need to redo a better one.

Glenn Ferguson. eh. lost likeness, was experimenting. I should do a better one.

Caricatures: Robb frog & Rob Westall dangly eyeballs (OCT. 2006)

here's 2 of fellow caricaturists I did last year. hee hee. these crack me up.

Caricatures- Matt Zitman!, Keelan, JP Mccarthy (NOV. 2006)

here's more sketches I did back in Nov '06

This is of my buddy and fellow caricaturist, Matt Zitman, who's caricatures rock (see his blog in my links). This is the 1st one I ever drew of him.

Caricature sketches: eyey, no eyes, 4 eyes (OCT. 2006)

Kenny Durkin

Mike Mullen

Lee Suckow

It's been a long times since I updated this bloggy. here's some more old sketches I did a year ago.

I've got a poopload of live park sketches I'm going to be posting- about 6 months worth of pictures since my last posts. I've got a few hundred pics to post! I finally have a couple days off from work to start putting them up so stay tuned!

Caricature of Nick Mitchell and Paul McCall (OCT. 2006)

more sketches I did 8 months ago.

Caricature of Robin- evil twin freak version (OCT. 2006)

this is my friend and fellow caricaturist Robin, who I've draw a few times live (see past postings). but this is the 1st drawing I did of her. wow. I haven't looked at this in a while and looking at it now, it's pretty vicious. I kinda feel bad which usually I don't cause it's a caricature and I'm very objective...but I think it looks more in the mean super exaggerated vs. the fun super exaggerated, if that makes sense. sometimes, I have the habit of making people more evil super exaggerated, not sure why. maybe cause I hadn't really gotten to know her when I drew it and now I know her a bit more. obviously, she's much prettier. we'll just call this the evil twin freak version of Robin, heh.

Caricature of Rob Maystead- Wormy! (Oct. 2006)

I like this one, he looks wormy.

Caricatures- Stacy Pierce and Stang (Oct. 2006)

here's a sketch I did a few months ago of friend/all-around cool peep and fellow caricaturist, Stacy Pierce. check out her work!-- http://www.stacykakes.com/