I draw Caricatures at Parties and Events. PLEASE DO CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING PICTURES ~ TO BE SURE THAT YOU ACTUALLY READ THE WHOLE MESSAGE.

I am often approached by people with their self deprecations who say things like "Don't draw my nose", or "Don't show my child that picture with his big ears", etc. A parent who isn't even thrilled to see their baby. Imagine That! and they expect Me to buy into that nonsense.

Such attributes, big noses, floppy earlobes, tiny noses, no earlobes, bushy unibrows, big lips, chicken lips, female moustaches, jowels, wrinkles.... the list goes on and on. Such attributes have nothing to do with abilities, intentions, OR BEAUTY. A large wedge is just as nice a shape as a small button.

Don't spend your whole life hating yourself. Refuse to agree with anyone/thing/whatever it is Out There that gave you such an idea. It is Not true. I refuse to believe it. I don't want to proliferate it. I Celebrate that All People look different. That's how we can tell that one person is not another person.

I feel So Happy to see them, that I call What They Really Look Like ~ Beautiful.

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I feel excited to start my new interest in Festivals. I've been gearing up for it for quite a while, but now it's time to Jump In ~ even though I could keep doing more and more planning. This is it. My first Festival is coming up in just a couple of days. On July 31, 2024. Oh Boy! It's a whirlwind over here. I'm planning for the Festivals to be an outlet where I have more power and time to encourage people to accept all their unique features as Beautiful ~ including big noses and big ears, uneven smiles and unibrows ~ as well as the little noses and little ears, Ushaped smiles and groomed eyebrows that many people request at Parties.

I want to break through societal nonsense, and make the world a better place. For Everyone. I want to encourage people to appreciate their Own beauty as well as to appreciate the beauty of Other people ( who have Different attributes than they have).

We are All Alive

Oh I was having fun drawing today. Based on some nebulous idea about ummmmm..... showing both frontview and sideview in the same drawing at the same time ~ but not the Picasso way of cutting the face down the middle and just drawing a sideview nose on a frontview face. The idea also included moving the features around ~ no need to always draw one eye on each side of the nose, or eyes above mouth sort of thing.

I googled some reference photos on the internet ~ usually looking for people with big noses ~ to see what would happen with this idea.

In my first foray into this idea, the nose took up the space where I would have drawn the mouth:

I tried it again ~ being sure to leave room for the mouth:

Nice, but I felt like the nose-on-the-side idea got lost in the design. So I tried it again:

Good. But can I make it better?

But what about flattering people at Parties and Events ~ I don't usually cater to those self-hating ideas that are imposed by the media, but what if the Guest really is 'pretty' ~ I looked for a reference photo of a pretty girl who had a big nose. Did it. Nice:

I want to do more of this. I found a reference photo of a man with a big nose. Worked great. I actually drew Both eyes on the Same side of the nose, and it doesn't even look out of place:

Much Fun! I found another reference photo of a man with a big nose. Came out great!

I like this. I want to do more of it. I found another reference photo of a man with a big nose. I like a lot about my drawing ~ especially the solidity of the nose, but I messed up a bit. Could not get hte eyes right. Is that because I kept 3/4-view mouth to match the nose, so it didn't work with the frontview eyes? Or is it because I just messed up on capturing his eyes, so they came out stiff and blah:

This next one is good. Nose on side and glasses combined into frontview. Yes. I can do this:

How about 2 on a page? I know I can expect to be asked to draw more than one on a page at a Party or Event. Would I be able to use my current 'thing' if I'm confronted with 2 faces in one drawing? In this one, I decided to move the lips up higher than the eyes and nose. It's okay, but not the best. I'll have to play with this idea some more before I use it at Parties and Events. Moving the mouth up. But it did work in this drawing (which took too much time for a gig ~ because I didn't have my game-plan worked out with this yet:

I tried another Couple. Nice!

I can't seem to stop drawing. I have other things to do! But I can't stop drawing!

This one's okay. Side nose. But I feel like this idea would have worked better with frontview mouth. And the big/little eyes look too wonky:

I did it again. Still drawing. but this time I felt like a more traditional feature placement was required:

Hahahahaha! I did the side-nose thing again ~ looks just like the person in the reference photo ~ but I forgot to try that frontview eye thing that I originally set out to do. So it ended up looking like the nose was coming out of the eye. Like she couldn't see passed her big nose.

And as I was drawing the errant strand of hair, I noticed that I could have brought the inner line of it over ~ to look like the head-hair was coming out of her nose. But I chose not to do that. I felt like it Might be too much. Sometimes if I try Too much in one drawing, it loses credibility.

I wonder if it would have worked. But we can only see the choice that we Did make:

One more. Just one more, and then I really have to get to my other activities. I want to work in the garden before the sun goes down. I love to pull weeds:

Or maybe I'll go bicycle riding. Must get to things Before That Sun Goes Down!

btw, that final picture that I drew here today ~ It worked Great! Looks like her. Looks like her attitude. I did the 2 eyes on same side of nose thing that I had set out to do today, and I feel very happy.

Makes me feel like one more ~ one more ~ but I have to be able to set limits.

Beautiful Shapes. Functional. Human.

It's Time for People to Speak Up. I am tired of trying not to offend people who have Big Noses. If they can possibly Accept Themselves as they Really are ~ Instead of Hiding, Concealing, Spending their Whole Lives thinking they can't really be Beautiful if they look like they Really look ~ If they can possibly Love the Body they were given ~ they have a better chance for the Happiness and Self-Confidence which is what really makes a person look Beautiful.