Blast from the Past

Going old school here. These are caricatures I did back at Legoland, California in 2008/2009. Our thing was that we would draw you doing just about anything, but usually I tried to steer my customers towards the direction of a Star Wars character, zombies and my favorite super heroes.

I do miss drawing live caricatures. There's something about interacting with a client in person and when you do a good job, and the customer loves their drawing, it's a really good feeling!

Live Caricature from Legoland

My friend told me I need to take more pictures of my caricatures from work. So here are a few of my favorites from last week and a few from a several months before. 

The top drawing of the boy as Wolverine is inspired by Sean "Cheeks" Galloway and the bottom drawing is inspired by Robert Risko. Both of these artists in my opinion have great sense of design and I like simplification in art. It's like the saying goes... sometimes more is less. So that's what I've been trying to do lately. Oh yea, I think the real motivation for me to simplify was because we lowered our caricature prices at the park, and so with that I'm trying not to do as much work as I normally would for full price.

Drawings from the Park

Check out the sweet anatomy on this bovine. As you can tell, I don't draw cows very often. Also, I thought it was funny how her hair clips look like devil horns. Didn't realize this till after the drawing was done, but oh well!

This guy was the coolest. Usually when I ask an adult if they'd like a caricature, they walk away or just laugh at the suggestion. But this guy wanted one and lately I've been dieing to draw anyone that's old enough to see a PG 13 movie (we draw a lot of kids at the land of Legos), so this was a real treat.