Another Holiday Commission

Golf Cart Kids, (11X17, ink and acrylic on illustration board). Here's another one from last Christmas that I forgot to post earlier. The client wanted to get a caricature of his kids to give to his wife for Christmas, and wanted a whimsical depiction of them riding in their golf cart. The little boy really did have an Alfalfa spike in his hair.

Line Drawings

Here are two seperate line drawing pieces which show different uses for caricature illustration. The first is Great Food, Great Times, ( 8.5X11, ink on illustration board). These guys were opening an Italian restaurant and contacted me for a caricature they could use for promotions and menus. They let me decide on the theme and they were quite happy with the result. Just Married, (8X8, ink on illustration board), was commissioned for a wedding in Birmingham, AL. The client booked me to draw at their reception, but also wanted the bride and groom drawn ahead of time so that the image could be pre-printed on the paper that I would be using. That way, everyone who was drawn would always remember the happy couple.

Ink Wash Illustration

Down on the Farm, (11X14, ink wash on illustration board). This was a commissioned piece by a lady in Alabama for her parents on their anniversary, and she was nice enough to send in this wonderful picture of them receiving it. The copy shown here isn't fully faithful to the original, which had lots of subtle tones in the wash. I get a lot of requests for tractors in my illustrations, and in fact they have even surpassed motorcycles in popularity.

Charter Business Caricatures

This is a series of small 5X7 ink caricatures I did on Bristol Board for Charter Business which they used in some sort of presentation package. They wanted something in each drawing to convey the subject's interests or region in which they work. Some were easy and some where very difficult based on the sometimes limited information I was given. I'm usually not a big fan of putting names on caricatures, because I feel like the caricature ought to look enough like the subject to render the name moot, but this is what they wanted so I had a bit of fun making up different fonts for the names.

More Charter Business Caricatures