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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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!
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.
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!
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