Park Life

This is Mariah. She's a very silly, funloving artist that has a lot of fun facial features to exaggerate.

    This was a very fun, energetic couple that had a good sense of humor about themselves. So many caricaturists make every woman with a skinny, anorexic body with baloon breasts....so I wanted to demonstrate that a sucessful caricature doesn't require the artist to do that. Even though I drew them very heavy, even fat.....they still loved it.

This was an awesome twosome. This lovely pair of siblings had a drawing done by me some time ago, and liked enough to get another one. She's a tattoo artist and loves caricature, so they have fun with seeing themselves exaggerated. It's clients like these that make my job fun.

   This was an amazing compliment. Two years ago, I drew this boy, and the dad loved the drawing so much, he got it tattoo'd identically on his arm! It was also his first and only tattoo! They also got a new drawing on this day which they loved as well, but it was a real surprize to see my artwork on them, a park sketch mind you....

  I have a feeling this isn't going to end anytime soon.

This is Brett Favre, wait, no it's not, no, I mean, yes it is.

The newest contender in the late night wars.....adding the hispanic spice to the mix.

Always creative, never predictable, Miss Lady Gaga.

  Some think she's wierd, eccentric, and unpredictable. I agree. I also think she's amazingly talented and creative.

    I do believe Lil' Wayne is the most tattoo'd rapper recording. I'm sure he'll get more tattoos in prison....

This couple were studying to be chefs. Yes, the image was meant to be humerously subtle.

This was done from an ipod picture, at the park. Sometimes it's good to do these kinds of drawings in the park, it gets lots of attention.

Alecia is very sweet and funny. This is very fitting of her personality.

This guy requested this.......they wanted to hang it in their bedroom. Some pics require no explanation.

Although soccer really isn't that popular in the US, I canstantly hear about Ronaldinho, and how he's argueably the best player right now.

This is the "Jacob" character from the Twilight movies....my twilight samples attract every teenage girl that walks by the stand. Bad for culture, good for business.

I'll never understand why some people stretch their earlobes open for fashion....nor will I ever understand the women attracted to them.....

Funny story.....This woman came to me asking me to draw her as a mermaid (she saw an example of this at another rival caricature stand). I really hate doing requests likethese, because I like to draw real things and exaggerate them. Not draw fantasy pictures people wish to look like. In my opinion, that's not really a caricature. I tried to talk her into being drawn normally (in a caricature), and she said "well, if you can't do it...." From there I took it as a challenge. She told me mine blows the other mermaid out of the water!!!

This boy was about 13 years old, and weighed about 77lbs. He wanted me to draw him as an MMA cage fighter. There's times when I just have to bite my tongue and draw.

This guy came to me with lots of photos and instructions, but it was a slow day so I didn't mind spending some time on this one.

This girl works at Busch Gardens, and had a great sense of humor......and a large smile. Sorry about the bad photo.

Here's another unbelievable story....two ladies walked up at my stand asking "Can you draw from a picture?" I said, sure. As I was drawing the caricature the younger lady gave me a little hard time...."why her head so big? Why her mouth all like that?" I'm used to it. But as I was finishing it she seemed to like it a lot. The older woman kept asking questions...."Do her eyes look pretty? Is her skin the right color? I'm gonna hang this in my house you know...." She finnaly asked, "can you put her name on it?" Playfully I said, "Surely you don't forget who she is, do you". Honest to God she looked and said, "Well....I'm blind and I want to make sure who it is". As they were walking away she was asking her family as she was holding it looking into the sky,..."Is it cute? Does It look like her? Owww...she so precious."

 I didn't even sign it.

This guy looks like a rat or a snake, but everyone seems to know him as well as Billy Mays as a famous pitchman or salesman. Apparently, the Shamwow is a good product.

This was a real nice guy who wanted to be drawn playing the piano. He was expecting a goofy silly drawing but was pleasantly surprized at the serious yet dramatic tone I drew him in. He was wonderfully surprized that he contacted a friend of mine to get my info to compliment and thank me once again. It's moments like these that make it all worth it.

Argueably one of the most beautiful women of the 70s and 80s, This Charlie's Angel was the most memorable.