I'm baaack. Has it been a day since the last time I posted ? :-)

Anyway, still preparing. So I can please my clients. Even the ones who are afraid of the unknown, afraid of giving up control, even of Artwork.

so here I am. Trying to control my pictures. To have Some exaggeration, so they'd be Caricatures, but to limit it for this week's client's request. I'm still working with the reference picture from my previous post of November 17th

I drew the first picture to limit the exaggeration of the woman. I felt like I could still moderately exaggerate the man ~ I decided to make his face thinner.

But oh. Ick. It's so hard to edit yourself in the moment. Real Party Fun involves an Artist working IMPROV. nO THINKing. No RUles. I don't imagine anybody would expect an actor to edit himself while doing IMPROVisational theatre ~ do you? That would make it no longer IMPROV.

Ick ~ I exaggerated the narrowness of his face. Then I stopped exaggerating because my of my client's request. So now it doesn't look good. Because The substance would have had to go Somewhere when I squashed it narrower. After squashing the 'balloon', it becomes Longer.

Not working 'on the spot', as I would be doing at the Party, I was able to redraw the picture. The second one ~ Yes. Feels like it would please both the Client And the artist.

I won't be able to second-guess my decisions at the event. It's going to be hard to 'limit my exaggerations', as my client ordered. So I'm going to spend the next whole day Practicing.

I've worked for so many years to develop my exaggerated Style. It works Great. But here I am - trying to Change. I like to help Everyone put together the Party they want. So they can anticipate joy and celebrations. Even the people who are fearful and controlling. Especially those people. They don't know how to be happy. They need my help.

I once heard a cute expression. This type of Caricature is for people who are looking to hire E-Gogh. Get it?

I just had an interesting experience. A girl wanted Basic Picture. Drawn with Black Marker. With eyes, nose, mouth. Nothing too wild. Nothing too exciting.

A real Artist who has evolved to the point that I have might have refused. Arrogant. I Know Better. But What's That???

Most people love the exciting Fun ~ not know what's going to come out ~ not knowing what the Artist is going to draw. But there are plenty of people who feel more comfortable with Standard Basic Picture. Not having studied the Art of Caricature as much as I have, they might need to 'Be Normal' (whatever that is). Or or they might be unable to separate their reality from my exaggeration.

While I enjoy my ability to do highly evolved Artwork, I do recognize that there are other things that are much more important. Like, like. What would Jesus do? He wouldn't worship Z'Ahrt ~

So I tried to please this girl. I gave sincere effort to drawing her 'plainly'. And I felt a little more evolved because she was pleased: