There are such subtle nuances that affect what we see. Such subtle nuances that affect a person's mood. Personality. So when we draw Caricatures, the result iS affected by so many choices along the way.

This isn't such a concern when we're drawing Party Caricatures. No time to study a person's whole personality. And no time to try out different lines. It's all just fun. We're all in the Party Zone.

But when making a Studio Caricature.... the choices become more critical. There's time to choose what we want to Caricature to be saying. Personality. We get subtle changes from each line ~ thicker? thinner? softer? harder? angular? curved? exactly where would that curve go?

Several years ago, I felt honored to draw the two Dentists from Preserve Your Teeth. They are quite respected among the Best Dentists around. (If you need dental help, I recommend that you email them to see what can be done: ESinfo@preserveyourteeth.com ).

These two Dentists are married to each other, and they work in the same office. Dr Urbankova, the one with the 'braid' does the general dentistry. Dr Engebretsen, represented here as the 'floating mask in the sky', does periodontics.

Very pleased with their pictures, but only the picture of the Dentist with the braid got framed and hung up. Because they wanted them both to be the Same Size. (I had drawn the picture Dr Urbankova on 8.5 x 11 paper. I had drawn the picture of Dr Engebretsen on 11 x 17 paper. So now they requested that I redraw the picture of the Dr Engebretsen onto 8.5" x 11" paper.

I did that:

Then I was imagining what it would look like in the Dentist Office. Both fine Carictures, but do they Match? When the pictures are hanging together? So I started playing around with making a full-face picture of Dr Engebretsen.

Nice. I gave them Both the new floating mask picture And the picture with the cap. But what I'm writing about in this post is the Subtle Nuances of drawing the Caricature. Here's a picture of what I went through before I settled on that excellent Full Face picture of Dr Engebretsen.

You can notice the subtle changes of things like:

even though I represented his 'Mouth' as a single line, where to bend it? Changes the expression.

and even though I chose 'Short Hair' to be indicated near the 'Baseball Cap', what type of line to use??

and I felt like the heart-shaped 'Adams Apple', although cute, was not a good idea in this case......

I love the new Digital Equipment. I loved it so much that I jumped right in when we could make Paintings this way. Neat, clean....

but it feels so different than using traditional Paints on physical Canvas. I chose a few of my previous Paintings because I'm looking forward to creating some Large Gift Paintings now. It will feel sooo satisfying.

Samples were requested:

I've been drawing instructions for my friend's healthy eating habits while he's on the road. Traveling. And I decided to share them with the world too. To realistically apply good health habits into our real busy lives. Really. I care about you.

You can get beautifull framed prints of these drawings as well as the images put onto mugs (cups) at: https://www.artpal.com/GiftsAndFavours?i=101276-28

Beautiful Wall Decorations as well as such useful mugs. I love the mugs because they are so regularly used and noticed.

There is No excuse to break your diet. It is not too difficult to stick to your plan. I want to help you to come up with solutions if a complication comes up.

This one is how I eat Celery when there is no kitchen. No kitchen sink. After cracking off the center portion of a celery stick, I wipe it down and snap it into 2" or 3" pieces.

I've been selling some pictures that I make when I'm not actually At a party. Here are three new designs. I put them out into the world, hoping that my pictures would affect people when these artworks are in their homes. Either by the constancy of them just Being there, or by noticing them every time they walk by.

I put them out there, not knowing where it would lead. And I felt very surprised. It turned out that people have been making up their own sets of Mugs (cups) by ordering one of each at https://www.artpal.com/?s=GiftsAndFavoursPartyEntertainmentIdeasInc&f_ss=1 (scroll down on the page to see the choices)

They've been designing their own collection of Mugs (cups) by choose similar colors and similar ideas. Sometimes just to uplift their own families by using them in their kitchens, but this new idea really surprised me. People have been setting their Party Tables with different Word Art Mugs. I was told that it helps people relax. I was told that my Mugs helped their Guests feel confident to make Meaningful conversations at their Parties!

My pictures look similar enough to Match. But they are different enough that it's clear that they are Not mass produced.