These days it's good to show up where I can. The Perfect Latte in Richmond was a small setting for a vendor delight event this past weekend and yours truly made an appearance. Aside from bringing a few smiles with some cartooning, I sampled the coffee which was toe curling good. If you'd like to know how to have me at an event click the button below.
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The above drawing is of Arno Minkkinen and is from a rustic sketchbook using Faber-Castell, Pitt artists pens. Arno is a photographer from Finland who addressed a subject I hear often coming from novice artists particularly in the drawing classes and workshops I've held. A problem new artists have is their eagerness to develop a style all their own. Apparently it's an international concern because Arno himself discussed it and uses a parable he calls "The Helsinki Bus Station". Imagine yourself at a station where the buses are lined up and ready to depart on their routes. You board a bus and soon discover it is following the same initial route as all the other buses that also left the station and its even making some of the same stops. Since you wanted a unique destination from the others you become discouraged and go back to the station and board another bus but you are once again disappointed because your new conveyance is apparently following the same routes and stops as the previous one. No matter how often you board a different bus you get the same basic results. The solution to this is to stay on the bus because eventually you'll see the buses diverge and follow routes to destinations far apart from each other. This illustrates how someone can start a discipline like drawing and initially his drawings don't look much different from other's at the same stage and becoming disappointed he finds something new to do like painting. Again he finds the same problem; no unique style. No matter how many times he changes he finds much the same outcome. The solution: STAY ON THE BUS. STICK TO THE PLAN. The student artist who finds a discipline and sticks with it will soon diverge from others and find her own style much like the bus that leaves the station and eventually drives its own path. If you are interested in drawing classes or workshops on drawing click the button below.
,Weddings have always been a prized event when it comes to drawing caricatures. One of the benefits I provide for weddings is not only do I draw caricatures of the guests but I also offer a special, more detailed version of the bride and groom prior to the wedding day. The wedding party can then use it to display at the sign in table or some have even used it for the guest to write well wishes directly on the drawing itself. If you'd like to know more about hiring me for weddings or any other event, click on the button below.
Today's coronacature is a rendering of Johnny Cash in pen and ink which isn't to be confused with ball point pens or markers. Although there are quality markers that are ideal for drawing, the "pen and ink" to which I'm referring is media specifically meant for hand drawing or calligraphy which has been used since shortly after humans learned how to draw and write on the walls of caves. The ink used in this work is Higgins Black Magic India ink and the nibs and nib holders varies in flow to provide line variation. The nibs can be changed depending on the number of holders but it's not one size fits all. If you're interested in hiring me to do caricatures at an event, a one time commission or drawing lessons and workshops click the button below.
Daniel Radcliff is yesterday's Caronacature. If your interested in having me draw at an event or if you want to have a caricature of someone you know click on the button below.
This employee of Altitude Trampoline Park in Katy took advantage of my appearance and snuck one in on her break. My live drawings are typically done using Prismacolor brush markers on laser print paper.
Things are a little sketchy (pun intended) with the state of the pandemic but as we get back into the swing of things and have more and more events especially with the coming holidays, lets not forget some cartoon relief. For added safety I can even do a totally hands free drawing using a digital drawing pad. The above photo was a evening dinner at Rice University.
In my endeavors to hone my digital skills I'll typically draw a pencil sketch of an idea, ink it in and copy it to my surface pro tablet where I digitize it. A digital drawing gives the art a neat, polished, uniform appearance suitable for copy. However, much can be said for the traditional hand drawn look, like the one above, which give art a spontaneous, instinctive appearance. By the way, stand by for the digital version of Norse Santa.
I'm currently re-reading the biography of Walt Disney which inspired me to do Jimeny Cricket. This is done with black India ink in my gigantic, 500 page sketchbook. As a kid one of the ways I learned to draw was to copy Disney characters, Mad Magazine and comic strips.
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