new me

a hairy gurl and a ....very ...strange man...

These two stopped by the stand the other day, the gurl needed a shave, and this fellow... needed a shrink!!

PEN AND INK CARIICATURED COMMUTERS

soon all the ugly commuters will be putting on scarfs and hats and trying to cover up their hideous faces... better draw em while I can...

even bigger smile....

just playing around and seeing how much i can stretch an already exaggerated portrait...

bigg smile!

she looks a little like bugs bunny dont she?

fat man with beard

caught one morning on the train... looks like hes wondering about his next meal...

Starbucks sketch

Did this sketch based on a description given to me by a friend sitting at the same table. I wwas shocked when the guy she was describing actually walked by. Up till then I didnt know he was in the same room.

Pushing my exaggeration button....

As the NCN yearly convention draws near...( I hope I can go) I've been making a concentrated effort to really push my exaggeration button and "go for the jungular" on my exaggerations. The results have been liberating hilarious and scarey! I cant wait to see what I'll come up with next! here's a few goodies...

ME ...again

Here's another self caricature of me from my ongoing series that ive been keeping up for a coule of months... namely, to draw myseld everyday. This exercise has forced me to stretch the limits of my caricature ability and ive come up with some pretty cool renditions of myself.

Glenn and Joann finished...

I like it!

Glenns gurl

Its One in the morning, now, I have a caricature gig very early tommorrow that i have to get up for at 5am , and yet I could NOT REST until I drew this picture... so... here it is! Will do Glenn later... gotta sleep!

awesome caricature of me

Fellow caricature artist, Alison Gelbman at www.caricatureexpress.com surprised me this morning by dropping this caricature painting of me into my mailbox! This is the first time Alison has done a painted caricature and the results are awesome! What makes it more incredible is that she is also a student of mine which means I will have to "up my game" now to keep up with HER!

He didnt LIKE being drawn... but too BAD!!

The funniest thing about subwaysurf sketching is watching, and hearing the reactions of people. Some folks laugh, others smile, other walk away totally, or bury their faces behind papers and magazines, and some get MAD and "pretend" to ignore me, but you can literally FEEL the "you're invading my privacy, and I want to punch you out vibe" take this guy, for instance, I caught him on a Queens bound R train, and i was originally drawing him from the front view. As soon as he saw me drawing him, he kept rotating his face from side to side in a lame effort to throw me off! LOL! It turned out that his side view was even more hilarious than his front view, so I kept "encouraging him" to "look away" by insensely staring at him.

draw Glenn and his Gurl...

Glenn Fergeson, a brilliant caricature artist and member of the NCN, recently posted this picture of him and his gurlfriend that he caricatured magnificently. He encouraged the other members to try their hand at caricaturing her, and well, here's where I get started.

Following are two rough drafts..

Party pics

no major exaggerations here, just having a little fun at my gig today. This gig was done through one of my agents at Havin' A party located in Canarsie Brooklyn on Ave L. I liked these best...which means that im a lousy photographer, and out of the pictures I took, these came out the best.

an exaggeration breakthrough

Reallly exaggerating a lot more! heres my uglee mug again plus a caricature of a subway commuter...

one more

ugly noo yawkers on the subway

Yep! they're scarey alright!

gotta dance! again

more styles Im trying to master... believe it or not I dance while I do caricatures at parties...after all, i DO work at parties! I even won a dance contest at a party by accident once!

George bush Job Interviews Episode 1

This is one of three episodes i did the character design sotryboards and layouts for with the folks at snidetv.com enjoy!

new stuff! New Stuff!

Just discovered slap taggin. a new venue for my creative energies... heres some stuff i created...

my crazy assignments.....

doing a series of "ghetto fabulous toons" for a company called rocketshark. Here are a few of the zany toons Im doing for em...

let's not forget George....

Such a fun face to draw... Im gonna miss him!

snnneaaaak peak character design.....

heres a sneak peek at some characters Im doing for an upcoming cartoon shordo done in conjunction with the folks at snidetv.com

This character is a comedy club manager . Wehen I developed him, I channeled Comedian, Ben Stiller, of the show, "The King of Queens"> Siller plays the character, Arthur Sponner hilariously. I also thought about Danny Devito. This character is appearing in a skit with President George Bush. More later when it launches. If you havent seen the first cartoon check it out on www.snidetv.com

skeeter rabbit kicking it old skool

dance is still one of my passions. Here are a couple of styles I'm still trying to master performed by skeeter rabbit of the electric boogaloos.... reaaaaallll old skool dance stuff!

street sketching!

I love the summer! I get lots of opportunity to draw outdoors at street fairs, and "street caricature hustling" Here are a few sketches that ive done outdoors. More to come.

subway dancing

Salah again THIS time dancing in the SUBWAY!! AWESOME!!

Dance! Dance !! DANCE!!!

A funny thing happened on the street the other day while i was doing caricatures. A group of people actually paid me for DANCING. When I'm inbetween customers, I distract myself by "Popping" (that's the dance I do). Doing this helps to keep my energy level and enthusiasm up, draws a crowd, and seperates me from the other vendors.

It also helps that Im pretty good at it! Anyways a group of guys were so entertained by my antics that they came over and paid me, saying they enjoyed the show!

Speaking of a show, here's Salah, a European popper and one of my favorite dancers!

Everybody dance!

More DANCING

I love to dance...dont YOU?

Being a NYC party caricature artist, I've gone to literally THOUSANDS of parties over the years. As a result, I've fallen in love with dancers, and as a frequent subway surfer. slash. sketcher, I come in contact with a lot of breakdancer. I can even but a few moves myself. Here are some popping tutorials, that I like:

New stuff!

Met this person on the train and she actually asked to have this done!

snidetv animated short

experiments....

Doing some experiments on my client's webcomic, Larger than Life, by Nathan Scott.

In the upcoming episode, I have the main character Seven, and his partner, boye, sucked into his mac computer that they were trying to fix. Its not an original theme, but i had fun experimenting with different ways to render the characters. I took a lot of inspiration for Scott Mc Clouds reinventing comics book, as well as his website. This panels arent in sequential order, and they're just part of an overall story.

pulp fiction results two

Other winners were Pat Harrinton who has a ferociously wild and fun style, you can see more of Pat's fantastic work here:

http://www.harringtoons.com/

and Mick Hollinworth, another UK artist, who has a more illustrative style.

http://www.mickscaricatures.co.uk/

Pulp Fiction results

Unfortunately I didnt win the Pulp Fiction Animation contest. The nod went to Mike Giblin http://www.mikescaricatures.com/ an excellent caricature artist/cartoonist from the UK

here's his version: