It is difficult to draw Groups of people at a Party, but I feel so excited when they get me while I am

IN THE ZONE.

Look at how much Fun we had with this FASHION SKETCH:

Glad I got these out of my system. Getting ready for to draw Caricatures at today's Bat Mitzvah Celebration.

First I figured that I should get ready to draw Pretty girls. But once I started, I felt like switching to exaggerated Caricatures. Hmmm.... still in Pretty girl mode, my exaggerations were quite tame. By the time I stopped drawing, I was wishing I could find my recent studies on those fantastic cartoony things, but I didn't. So now I'm just Remembering some of the things I had been doing, and I hope they will just kick in when I Just Draw at the Event.

Still happening. Good clean Fun.

Here are some of the Caricatures that I drew:

They ordered Fashion Sketches. I intended to take a quik warm-up before going in. So I looked online for a photo of people at a Bar Mitzvah.

The photo didn't really show much of the Fashion. I would be seeing much more of that in person. So I focused on placements ~ in case one of the requests turns out to be a group request.

I ended up spending a lot more time on this warm-up than I had planned. Even though the very first picture worked just fine. Nice arrangement. Nobody would complain with this correct picture. But I don't like the style. It's too (dipsy? beginner?) for me:

So I drew it again. This time, I tried to 'loosen up':

Okay, but I didn't loosen up Enough. So I drew it yet Again:

No no no. Let's go. Let's Exaggerate:

Good thing I took a photograph of that drawing before I started adding to it. Because the more I did, the less I liked the picture. Turns out that the contrast of line quality between the Hebrew Word and the 'people' got less clear when I added Color. Every time i added more complications, it took away from the clarity of ppl behind The Word. The simplest one is the most energetic. most clarity. and it took much less time which would have kept ppl from getting jumpy if I was in a real live party today:

and it got even worse when I also added darker lines to the 'people'. That is Not the way to go when doing a (word) Overlay:

Did you notice that I started drawing Faster with each rendition? Now I feel ready to jump right in.

I'm looking forward to actually seeing the Fashions at the Party. In person, I wouldn't be limited by a photographer's picture

UPDATE 2024 !!

I FINALLY HAD A CHANCE TO POST WHAT REALLY HAPPENS AT A PARTY WITH THIS ARTIST. THE FUN PICTURES SHE DRAWS.

Warm-up before today's party ~ I went in to my website to see Fashion Sketches at Bar Mitzvah. Picking up where I left off here, I drew the following Fashion Sketch. Of course, I couldn't find the same random reference photo. And this time, I took SIX people in one drawing.

Again, I felt like it was better as just bw lines:

But then I said a hey. Toooo tedious. To tight to be ARTwork. And finally, finally I drew it right:

Aaah