I'm baaack. Has it been a day since the last time I posted ? :-)

Anyway, still preparing. So I can please my clients. Even the ones who are afraid of the unknown, afraid of giving up control, even of Artwork.

so here I am. Trying to control my pictures. To have Some exaggeration, so they'd be Caricatures, but to limit it for this week's client's request. I'm still working with the reference picture from my previous post of November 17th

I drew the first picture to limit the exaggeration of the woman. I felt like I could still moderately exaggerate the man ~ I decided to make his face thinner.

But oh. Ick. It's so hard to edit yourself in the moment. Real Party Fun involves an Artist working IMPROV. nO THINKing. No RUles. I don't imagine anybody would expect an actor to edit himself while doing IMPROVisational theatre ~ do you? That would make it no longer IMPROV.

Ick ~ I exaggerated the narrowness of his face. Then I stopped exaggerating because my of my client's request. So now it doesn't look good. Because The substance would have had to go Somewhere when I squashed it narrower. After squashing the 'balloon', it becomes Longer.

Not working 'on the spot', as I would be doing at the Party, I was able to redraw the picture. The second one ~ Yes. Feels like it would please both the Client And the artist.

I won't be able to second-guess my decisions at the event. It's going to be hard to 'limit my exaggerations', as my client ordered. So I'm going to spend the next whole day Practicing.

I've worked for so many years to develop my exaggerated Style. It works Great. But here I am - trying to Change. I like to help Everyone put together the Party they want. So they can anticipate joy and celebrations. Even the people who are fearful and controlling. Especially those people. They don't know how to be happy. They need my help.

I once heard a cute expression. This type of Caricature is for people who are looking to hire E-Gogh. Get it?

The storm is over. I just got my own Computer back onto the Internet. Phones working too. So today I got a call, and I promised to handle a gig 'less exaggerated' ~ a request from today's client.

"Okay ~ If that's what you want, I'll do that." I said. "It's actually so much easier for me. More like 'filling in the blanks' ".

Long day. Much to do. Then I came up to the Computer to relax. Ho-hum. What to do ~ I know! I'll look at some of these photos that are on my desktop. From a Bat Mitzvah where I drew recently.

I enjoyed perusing my photos for a while. Then I remembered today's client's request. Hmmm, I wonder what would have happened if I tried a simpler approach on one of these photos. Here's the exaggerated picture that Was Enjoyed at the Party. Next to the tamer picture that I drew just now.

Ummmm..... I don't know which one actually looks tamer. (although I do like the one from the Party better.) Maybe I'll practice some more tomorrow.

Still at the public library. Im trying to upload photohs for this blog. But oh, they look so fuzzy. I hope Illl be able to show them more clearly when the airwaves here are all cleaned up.

A while back, I had posted about a fun afternoon that I spent with a fun family who wanted the same few children drawn several times. I finally got a chance to post the rest of the pictures now. Amazing how things work out ~ because it's appropo to post them now ~ just before Christmas. This job had been to make a few Christmas presents for them to give out ~ to Grandparents, Aunts/Uncles......

BTW, the last photo shows the young gentleman who made me laugh. While I was finishing up, he put my big equipment onto his own back to help me out to the car. It was so funny