Here's some #black/white linework #Caricatures that I made on my time off at #Starbucks. I was feeling so psyched to get to today's College event.

Oh boy. Another new Party Planning Agent. Can you imagine me trying to explain to him what I do when I'm limited to Black/White Caricatures?? Like, unless the Client is Real Strict about Only Black Lines on White Paper, I might be using Black Lines and Gray Lines on White Paper or on Colored Paper ~ but still just drawing with black lines and gray lines. And white lines.

And once in a while even throwing in a little bit of necessary Color. But keeping it mostly drawn just with Black Lines.

I pulled the following Samples from this blog to explain it to him. Is it understandable? Do you understand me?

Here are some Samples of the black/white line-work that I will be doing at more conservative events. If I need to save time, I can just give out the black line work. But it's usually better to add the shading. I was playing around with different types of shading, sometimes a black Color Stick, sometimes a light gray marker, sometimes a dark gray marker.

I felt like the black Color Stick was good for Coloring in the large area of the hair, but it looked a little dirty on the face. I prefer the gray marker for shading on the face. Probably not a good idea to go too dark with the gray shading.

Here are some Caricatures that I drew at a Party. Whoosh~ I had been called that very morning to get to an event Upstate and draw as fast as possible ~ Black/white if that will save time on the drawings. Client's request.

Scramble. Change plans for the leisurely day I thought I was going to have. Pack up Supplies, get travel directions, change into Party clothes and Drive. Oh Oh. Traffic. Nothing I can do about it. I could have left earlier only if the event was before the very day-of !

I kept in touch with my liaison, and stressfully focused the whole drive there. Over an hour. Ran in at the last minute (instead of the half-hour early that I usually do if I am given enough advance notice to leave extra travel time), set up quickly, drew continuously. Then I had to run to the gym as I had originally planned to do for the day. But it was a Saturday. My gym closes early on Saturday.

Scramble. What a run of a day. After running out of the house, rushing through traffic, setting up fast, drawing fast, I went to the gym that was near the event. It had a very complicated Parking situation which took over half-hour. Left me with only 45 minutes to work out before they rushed me out to close the gym. But I knew of another gym that I could pass on the way home. It stayed open a little later. If I hurried, I could catch an hour there too. Which I did. Ran in, fit in whatever exercises I could, ran out when they needed to lock up....

And here are the pictures I have to show for it:

And I feel good.