These family caricatures were done a few weeks ago, but can be safely shown now that they have been given as gifts. Preliminary sketches as well as inks with and without gray tones are shown. Some members are in both families, so they appear twice.
Yearly Archives: 2018
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The holiday season brings in more commissions for me to draw caricatures as gifts for relatives, co-workers, friends, (or enemies, depending on how mean you want the caricature to be). With no chance of spoiling the surprise (since the recipients have now been given their gift caricatures) here I am […]
Today’s new weekly issue of the Asheville, NC Mountain Xpress alt-weekly paper shows my commissioned cover illustration of all three Buncombe County sheriff candidates vying for the job. If the signs confuse you, know that they are based on the verbiage on the actual signs displayed by the candidates. Actual […]
“Trick ‘R Treat Yo’ Self!” Being a fan of the TV show, “Parks and Recreation” I was tempted to draw the characters from the show from whom this paraphrasing was taken, but I decided to do a compilation of the 30 other drawings from this year’s month-long drawing challenge. That […]
“Build-A-Beast” Using my ultimate pen to pen the penultimate day of Drawlloween 2018. The prompt of Build-A-Beast, based on—presumably—Build-A-Bear Workshop, led me down the usual road of using a bevy of “Beast” characters from pop culture comics and animation. In this case: Beast from the Marvel Comics team, The X-Men; […]
“Scarecrow Records” Unsure of the origin of this pun (is it like Death Row Records?) I showed my age and used an actual LP record instead of other interpretations of the word. I also made a record label logo to put on it. The results are supposed to show an […]
“The Curious Cabinet of Mr. Calimari” Today’s title refers to the silent film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” so I guess that is why the similar-sounding “calamari” is spelled wrong. (I don’t know why “automaton” was spelled wrong on day 25 though, so it may just be the list maker […]
“Frankenstein’s Other Creation” For today’s challenge, I unwisely got way too complicated and decided to not only replace the usual Universal classic movie version of the Bride of Frankenstein with the character “Frankenhooker” from the 1990 camp classic of the same name, but I also wanted to have the monster […]
“Interview With a Chupacabra” My newspaper cartoon deadline day doesn’t let me get much other drawing done, so I was late in the day creating my illustration for this Anne Rice-sounding prompt. I chose Charlie Rose for the interviewer because his set is spookiest and easiest to draw. I also […]
“Charlie and the Self-Aware Automaton Factory” I almost didn’t get this one done today, but here it is in the evening. What if those Oompa-Loompas weren’t really just weird, human slaves, but self-aware automatons? I think all those “accidents” could be explained by the human0-exterminating O.L. A.I. Day 25 #drawlloween2018 is #charlieandtheselfawareautomatonfactory#drawlloween#oompaloomas#charliebucket#grandpajoe#wonka