Uh-Oh. Just a few hours before that Special Needs Prom, I decided to practice, and oh ~ this is what came out. Cute for sure, but I don't feel like this is what they're looking for this time.

It was coming out like this because I wasn't On my usual 'game'. I've been revamping my approach. So many different ways to approach a Caricature. I decided that I like to keep them Simple, but Also Exaggerated. I don't want to give up that Exaggeration that is the mark of a good Caricaturist. Without Exaggeration, without taking chances, I don't feel like a person can rightly be called a 'Caricature' Artist.

I was honing my Approach because I wanted to draw like the 4th picture here. That was my goal this time.

Aaaahh. I finally did it. It's a good thing I practice before I show up. Smoothing out the rough edges. Now I can draw Either way:

Aaaah. Aaaah. To cement this approach, I just swung into these next few pictures. I feel like I'm ready to go to work now:

UpScale Digital Caricatures

I wish I had more time to show you a lot of the Fashion Sketches that I drew at this Curvy Women Event. But it's just been Event after Event for me. There's just not enough time in the day sometimes.

Here's just a few of the Pictures that I made that day. Magnificent Women. Magnificent Clothes.

Getting my feet wet for tomorrow. Okay I practiced drawing Fashion Sketches on Large-Sized People. The Plus Department. For tomorrow's Event. I wanted to practice ~ Because my Client sent me an email just before I left for the Dentist today ~ with Samples of How she wants me to use the Colored Markers.

I didn't know I needed Colored Markers for this last minute Event. While I do feel like Markers would usually be the way to go on Fashion Sketches, I don't automatically have them in my Studio. Because I Usually do Caricatures. With Color Sticks. I only handle about One Fashion Sketch Event per Month. And I'm usually given enough time to go out and buy Fresh Juicy Markers just before the Event. I like that.

Luckily, I did have some decent Colored Markers here. Limited Colors, but enough to handle tomorrow's Event. So I brought them along to the Dentist ~ planning on checking out my Client's instructions while I was in the Waiting Room.

But the Dentist didn't keep me waiting at all. I had arrived late to the Dentist because I had to look for my Markers and change some other things that I had already prepared for tomorrow's

Client. Who had just sent me last minute changes oh.

But things always turn out well for me (and by extension, they turn out well for my Clients also). There was a Huge Thunderstorm as soon as I finished at the Dentist. I waited for it to pass ~ for Safer Driving. I just sat in my car drawing with the Markers that I had brought along. I just Found some time to get ready to handle these last-minute instructions. There was nothing else that I wanted to do at that time. I'll post those pictures here. Two slightly Zoftik Women. (Then I took a break to watch a You Tube. Nothing serious, but I drew a Fashion Sketch of a skinny Chiropractor. I do hope tomorrow's Guests actually wear some Designer type FFASHEEYONSS

I might have felt scared ~ from the LOUD THUNDER CRACKING through the Rain Deluge. Right after leaving the dentist ~ still numb from the Novacaine Experience because of all the Drilling and Popping and Muchering and Shots. But I wasn't. It felt Calm and Peaceful in my Car in comparison to the Storm that swirled around it.

It sure is helpful that I Trust the Lord to lead me along