San Diego 'mini' Caricature Convention

We recently had a mini caricature convention in SD to get people hyped up about going to Orlando for the NCN convention and also provide an open forum for some of our new hires to show them how you can expand your expression (with other media/materials) in caricature. We had a pretty good turn out and drew all day. Here are some of my images.
Anne
Cheeks
Emily
Connie
Fishwick
The Gaber
Dave
Me by Dave from Knotts

Park Sketches

Here are some of the sketches that I typically do in the park at Sea World. Some artists really enjoy exploring exaggeration and risk pushing the limits sometimes of what people comfortable paying for. Caricatures in the park ain't cheap. I try to skirt that edge but in the end I still want the guest to buy it, so I guess I have what's considered a "retail" sketch, but every once in awhile I like to jack people up.

Must...create...post...

I just noticed that it’s been like 4 months since I've posted any images. ~__~ A lot has happened, primarily the SUMMER @ Sea World, I moved and created a portfolio for the San Diego Comic-Con, sprinkle in a couple weddings and end off with a heaping helping of life in general. These may not be the best reasons, but now that the season is over I believe I'll have more time to post images.

So here are some beautiful people that just so happen to be sitting across from me at the Comic-Con while I was waiting for my turn at the portfolio reviews. Shear desperation can sometimes produce lovely results.





Mark and Ramon from San Jose came down for a couple of days at the park and we all went out to a coffeehouse to sketch. Its always cool to have visiting artists to sketch with. I'll see these guys again @ NCN!

Ramon

Mark

Random people at the coffeehouse.

Holy Crap, a posting!

I know I haven't updated my blog in a long time. I've just been working at the park so much with Spring Break, I haven't produced anything that I wanted to post, until today. I just spent the day drawing and even when I'm not at work I wanted to do some caricatures...ugh. I did all of these today and had fun ripping people up.

Dwayne C.
Below I did some drawings at a local coffeeshop, just random people.

Sunday Sketch NIght

Every Sunday a bunch of us get together to sketch at a local coffeeshop called the Otherside in North Park. Its always fun to hang out and work on other art besides what is required at the park. Here is some sketches of mine from the last couple sketch nights.




Heather N. will be leaving us soon to venture to the Great Green North with her family. I hope she keeps in contact with everybody...

James A. and Chris D.


Jen from Sesame Place came to visit us last night with Stacy.

Kricfalusi Krazy

Since John K did a caricature of me, I decided to return the favor.

John is a funny guy. If you ever meet him in person he is a little different than you might expect from the pictures of him on the internet. In the older publicity photos from Ren & Stimpy he looks like a smaller, scrawny guy, but he's actually really buff and looks like he could rip yer head off. I guess that's what LA does to yah.

Here is a Katie Holmes & Tom Cruise in-park demo sketch I did for Sea World. Inspired by John K's celebrity caricatures.


At the House of Blues, John was talking about his favorite old cartoons. I'd seen some of his caricature of some of these characters on the internet and decided to try some of my own.

Dream Realized

Got a caricature drawn by John"the man"Kricfalusi.

psycho killer...

2 faces of death.

Random sketch. For some reason I was thinking of Virginia...

Heather N & Johnny from Sunday Sketch Night

wormy

I'm not really sure what's happening here.

The mightiest of all mice.

I think he might be Irish.

Colorful Characters