It's sad how often I hear "Make me Pretty" when I'm drawing Caricatures at Parties. Heck, even if I knew what You thought looks pretty.... or even if You even knew Why you wanted to look That way.... wasn't I supposed to make it look like You? So if you think you look pretty, then my Caricature makes you look pretty. But if you don't.....

I feel like what works in those instances, when a Guest requests that I 'make her look pretty', is to draw pretty Lines. So that's what I did tonight. Based on random photos (not necessarily pretty or not ~ they all had these deadpan expressions ugh), I intended to draw pretty lines. This is what I came up with.

Hmmmm.... Inspecting them, I'm wondering if exaggerations (like the big eye in the 3rd picture) do Not work with this line-approach? Or is it fine since I made pretty lines? What do you think?

I was drawing Caricatures at an Early Thanksgiving Event. Hosted by the Community.

I feel so happy to be involved in Good Events like this. I feel like Every Community should host a Thanksgiving Dinner.

I've been wondering lately about What's a Party For? Obvious answers are things like to Honour someone that deserves your attention, or to Make Your Child the Important Person. Also, how about to Meet People and have a chance to affect them. Things like that. But I'm remembering like Why did I get excited about going to Parties when I was a very young child. It wasn't just the potato chips. I'm remembering how the word Party, getting ready for the Party, just the idea of going to the Party, was like a light-switch to Turn On Happiness.

and that's still why I work at Parties. Drawing Caricatures, interacting with my visions..... It's a Happy Place. A Happy Time. On top of all the meeting people, seeing how well the Guest of Honor is doing, feeling included in this group.... On top of all that is an umbrella of Happiness.

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I'll be drawing Caricatures at a 1-year-old's Party this Weekend. So I figured I'd look at some Anime for inspiration. Not that I would be drawing Anime. Actually, not sure How it would be affecting me. I just figure that Anime has a lot of Big Eyes that people like for their Babies.

Then I drew some random Baby faces just anywhere on the page. The first Caricature was still inspired by the Anime I looked at. I imposed those big oval Eyes onto the face, and it worked.

But it felt uncomfortable to just draw the same eyes for each baby. And the 2nd Caricature that I drew really didn't lend itself to that eye-shape. It still came out good, still looked like it was inspired by Anime.

Then there wasn't really any room left on the paper, but I wanted to draw more. I drew 2 more babies (small), and I dropped my Anime idea. It's a good idea, but it loses its appeal if I feel like I have to impose a standard Anime face onto each Baby. Babies, like all people, have all sorts of expressions and uniques.

I feel like it was good to expose myself to Anime. It might or might not affect my drawings.