Doug Sterner (aka Doogle)

Doug is another fellow caricature artist who has that CHIN that you just wanna attack. Ive always wanted to do this gag at a live caricatue party but dont know how the person would react....

Pete Emslie

Just "discovered" this awesome cartoonist animator, Pete Emslie,
http://www.cartooncave.blogspot.com/
whose art and personality is reallly making a stir on the NCN forum. Thinis is my take on his face.

New Promo pages

I normally post these on my "hire me" site, but Im so excited about my new promo jpegs that I send to clients that I wanted to post them here too. I originally made these pages in Powerpoint, and was going to save the document as a PDF file to send to clients. I found out that Powerpoint had a save as a jpeg option so i was able to make each individual page as its own Jpeg. I believe the overall visual impact will be a lot stronger if clients see they specific type of caricature services Im offering on one page, rather than having to comb through a blog. I especially like that im demonstrating versatility with the art form as well. Caricature as Fine Art, Caricature as Entertainment art, Caricature as cartoony art. I hope the response will be positive.

I want to thank Fellow caricature artist, Alison Gelbman(she's the blong at starbucks in the live party caricature picture) for encouraging me to update my promo materials, a habit she does religiously.You never stop selling. As fun as drawing is, this IS a business, as well.

Gotta love drawing Jon 'Devereaux' Laing

This is an old drawing i did of Jon 'Devereaux' Laing, of the NCN forum. Jon's face should be a prereq for learning how to exaggerate a face. man, if you cant draw Jon, then you should hang it up as a caricature artist! I see now that I actuall7y missed some things that i realllllly could have exploited, so I will be re visiting this face.

Buxom Beauty and China Doll line drawings on the subway

Had fun with these two. At the risk of sounding cliched,"sometimes you just need to know where to draw the line" LITERALLY, in my case! Reaching into my Hirschfeld roots, I went for pure line quality, using Pitt artist brush pens and Tombo brush pens, on the China Doll, and using a crayola marker for the Buxom Beauty with the curly locks,and big Betty Davis Eyes. I wanted these to have a lively, spontaneous quality, so I drew these two ladies as fast as I could. No pre draw, no net. In the subway folks move so fast, you have to be very decisive regarding where your line is going to be. This can sometimes be a terrifying experience for artists who like to be perfectionists.

I find that simple line drawing caricatures like this are perfect to use as social media avatars, or logos. They are elegant, and classy. Please contact me so that I can ake one fr you. Prices are very reasonable.

Email me at
Cartoons4u2@aol.com

Another satisfied customer

I did this first communion gig in Sheephead Bay Brooklyn that went extremely wello, caricature wise. Every picture was perfect, the people loved them, and I will never forget this subtle, satisfied "good job" look that the host gave me. Putting together a party is such a stressful event and i think we sometimes forget that as caricature aritsts, and when we do a really good job, we make them feel good about hiring us. This is why they recommend us and hire us again.

Takin care of old skool bizness....

I found this caricature hiding between the page3s of an old pad and it brought back all the old feelings i had when i drew it I caught this old skool bizness man going to the job on wall street, carrying hisbriefcase, his wall street journal, and wearing his blue "power suit" he looked haggard and worn,amd a little overweitht, not at all like the slick, athletic, cell phone carrying 20-30 something Yuppie go getters you see all the time in the city. Seeing this old guy made me wonder if guys like him even "exist " anymore4 in corporate America. You never really get to see these old guys anymore in the office, at least Ive never seen them in all of the corporate gigs Ive worked in recent years.

Good Grief! "Peanut Catures!"

One of the things I love about caricature is that there are SO many ways you can approach a subject, so there are endless possiblilites to have fun. These two caricatures are of two NCN (National Caricaturists Network) members, Jan Baptist, and Paul Moyse. I was in a "peanuts " mood and wanted to see if I could depict them both as Peanuts characters. Jan's mass of white hair made him a shoe in for Schroder. instead of a toy piano, I have him drawing on a small toy french easel. Paul Moyse's gald head and baffled expression makes him an instant Charlie Brown. I even put the letter "M" on the trademark zig zag on the shirt.

Odé Manderson Poet, screen writer, caricature victim....

I metOdé Manderson recently at a gig I did in New Rochelle, NY recently, and was so intrigued by his face, that I took a snapshopt of him so that I could do more than the quick party sketch that he received at the party. Im not totally satisfied with tyhe result, but it came closest to the idea of his face that I had. Hope he likes it.
Theres a lot of strength in that face, it has great angles and in person, he just has this prescence that's undefinable but undeniable. Whatever Charisma "is" he's definitely got it. Theres a little bit of a young Mike Tyson in his face also. The little hand touching his goatee, is his beautiful little daughter. They both originally had their caricatures drawn together.

Steve Jobs

Did this pic of Steve Jobs of Apple Computer as part of a drawing contest/exercise Started by Jan Obdebeek at the NCN Forum. It took a lot of trying just to do this very simplified drawing.
I did a pencil memory sketch in between customers while drawing on the street. One admirer liked the picture, and when I asked him if he knew who it was, he recognized it immediately as Steve Jobs. that felt good.

feeling blue again....

Blue and Red

Ive been doing some more experiments with different colored paper on my subway caricatures and really liking the results. It makes the characters pop. I may even uyse this for my live gigs. I am also trying to go a little more "cartoon network " on some of these sketches, as well paying more attention to accessories like hats, earrings ipods and teeshirts.

BROTHER JOSCEPHUS of the LOVE REVIVAL REVOLUTION ORCHESTRA

Brother Jo is a client of mine who wanted a character design/caricature of himself to use in his promo advertizing of him and his group. I did the prelim sketches of him in Starbucks on Spring Street, and took the roughs home to clean up . Drawing Brother Jo was a treat, as his stage persona is already a caricature waiting to be drawn. He reminded me of a Parliament Funkadelic character from the 70's called, "Sir Nose Devoidafunk".

playing with the angles...

I did this subway sketch reallllll slow. Took my time to see how I could play with the various angles in this guys face. Im really pleased with how it turned out. Only thing I had to draw with was a mechanical pencil that kept breaking.

Street Caricature

He came all the way from Singapore just to get caricatured.
Shortly after this was drawn it started POURING down rain and ruined the rest of the money making day!

TOMOSAN!!!

This is a quik caricature of Japanese Caricature Artist, Tomo. You can see his fantastic work by clickig on the sidebar.

and yet ANOTHER self caricature

Caricaturing myself is an open ended ongoing project that I never seem to tire of. This is my latest rendition of myself. I drew this caricature with a....gasp...SHARPIE marker!!! no self respecting caricature artist does "decent" work with a shapie, but.... this came out surprisingly good. I even drew it on cheap drawing paper!

Color Subway Sketches

Today I pretended that I was drawing these people at a paying gig. I did them in color , some on colored cardstock and loved the results.

Famous Sidekicks, Barney Rubble, from the Flintstones

I'm one of the contributing artists on "ARTJUMBLE" (see the sidebar) where we are given a weekly challange to participate in. Last week, the assigment was to draw "famous sidekicks". Barney Rubble, Fred Flintstones pint sized, wise cracking neighbor, came to mind immediately. I didnt want to draw the character, of course in Hanna Barbara's style, and added my own flavor to it. The site is definitely worth checking out and JOINING. It will definitely keep you drawing.

Artist Spotlight Joe Stanton

Ask any caricature artist who there artistic influences are, and you';ll be likely to hear names like, Mort Drucker, Hirschfeld, Chuck Jones, Jack Kirby,or Hanna Barbara mentioed, and rightly so. Many of us were first introduced to art through Mad Magazine, Saturday morning cartoons, and marvel comics which we copied with an almost religious intensity.
Few people will admit that they were influeced by
Archie Commics.
Especially if you were a guy..... I mean GURLS read "archie"
I have to admit, that I shyed away from ADMITING that I read my sister's Archie comics but the truth is that I got some of my first drawig lessons from trying to draw the Riverdale gang.
But it still wasnt cool to admit this.

Fast forward to 2008, and the past Mocca Fest Comic Con. I was passing by Joe Stanton, an Archie Comics artist, who covinced me why I should be readig Archie comics.
"Jughead and the Archie gang have a new look" he said, and then he opened up his portfolio and my eyes popped.
I might just start readig Archie again.
Joe has updated their look to a more contemporary style, and Jughead is actually falling in LOVE!
Check out the seires I know I will be.