Preparing for upcoming events. I'm looking forward to the next one ~ with a Client who found me at a previous event. I will probably be able to draw however I want. So I wanted to get in to the Exaggerated Caricatures. I feel pleased to draw Exaggerated Caricatures. It's a less-common skill.

But the following four Events ~ all for One Client through my Agent ~ they said that they loved my Toned Down Caricatures. I feel happy to please people.

So I figured I would play around with Exaggerated Caricatures for the next few days ~ until my next Event. Then I would switch my interest to my Tamer Style. I drew the following 2 Caricatures today ~ based on photos of people that I previously drew just fine at previous events. I wanted to get into the Zone where I make Exaggerated Caricatures

Nice. I feel very pleased with them. I can do this.

But then I realized that the first upcoming gig will be all Adults. And, oh, I spent more than half my off time drawing Exaggerated Children's Caricatures today. It's very different to draw Adults than Children.

Aaaaaaand, btw, the Name of the first Client is the same as the name of the Town where I will be working for the 2nd Client.

Okay. I know what day it is and I know where I am

I used a couple of the photos from the previous event to practice Turning 'm. By that I mean, drawing 3/4 view faces when I only have frontview reference photos.

It's hard to do. Something I work on every once in a while. This time, oh, I felt a little dizzy making the Caricature of the man

You can't think it up ahead of time. It just happens when I'm making the picture. That's what makes it Real art.

In this case, I was at home in my time off. Just doodling. Because there were some supplies here leftover from a Party. Some blue paper. And some old markers. Just doodling.

Party Graffiti. I dream up words in the moment. Hoping to motivate people. How about a picture of the word 'Do'. Short and to the point.

The marker was dried out. I usually would have gone over the lines again ~ or looked for a better marker, but no. It will have more impact if I hang it on my wall as-is. The roughness of the lines show me what it can be like to 'Do' stuff sometimes. Difficult things might start out Rough. Incomplete. But that doesn't mean we don't have to Do them. If we just Start, if we just Do something, we are on our way

Well..... that's being a little facetious (a word that I learned when studying for my SAT's)..... but it sounded right tonight. Because I'm not sure if I was practicing the new style that I have been developing for the past week, Or if I was just finally able to draw what I used to try to draw back when I was in high school.

Either way, I feel like it's a Fun style to bring to Parties. I was drawing new Caricatures of people that I previously drew (posted elsewhere on this blog):

Btw, I did No Predraw. And I didn't even randomly choose the 2nd face to draw in each picture until I was Finished drawing the first one. That's not usually the way I draw. I felt amazed that it worked out.