Time off tonight. I figured I would like to just draw some simple shapes.But I didn't just draw shapes. As soon as I picked up the Color stick, I thought my shapes into face parts.

My background is Realistic Painting, not in Linework. I always started with a Toned Canvas. So I decided to get a slice of brown craft paper to start again.

Not as bad as before, but not as fascile as it should have been. t's hard to imagine how the light falls on such a complicated structure as a face when you have one there to look at with controlled lighting .

It's my experience with Party Caricatures that the toned paper is only used for darker skin-toned people. Even light skinned people also have a skin tone when you're Painting them. They're not White, like White Paper. Maybe it's because we exaggerate when we draw Caricatures, like Light is almost White, so we leave it white? I don't know how it came about. But sometimes it's just easier to do what' expected.

So I started to make up a face. Again on white paper. But I decided to use a midtone color stick for the background. (also not a good idea ~ back to the paper conundrum some day). Anyway, I drew a light/midtone blue around 'the face area' before starting. I guess it's 3-dimensional. I don't really like it, but it will probably have a good effect on subsequent Caricatures that I will be drawing at Events. After I suffer the questions, I make better pictures.

Sheesh. I can't post tonight's Caricature because it's a Predraw for tomorrow's Proposal Caricature. Of course, I can't let other people see it before my Client does.

After a month of countless emails and texts and photos and changed locationS, I finally felt ready to do the Predraw. This is a unique Proposal Caricature because my Client doesn't want me to draw the Caricature alone in my Studio and then pretend to draw it on-site like I usually do. He wants to catch what they look like and how they dress This day. And he also doesn't want me to take too long drawing on-site because he doesn't want his Lady to wonder......

So I did a Predraw of a basic composition and what the faces will probably look like ~ based on my Client's photos. Came out great. But I still have to ink it and add Color and actually draw the Faces and Clothes when I get there. I feel confident with this wonderful Predraw.

But Oh. I have to use Public Transportation to get to this location. I packed up the 22x28 predraw and my markers and easel etc. But when I tried to include the Larger heavy Drawing Board, it did Not fit in the folio that I use for 22x28 papers. I don't know how I am going to Carry several 22x28 Cardstocks And a bigger Heavy Drawing Board and my Markers, Travel Directions etc, and my 2-Part Easel ~ in the car and on the train and on the subway and on the Long walk from there to get to the destination.

I have done 22 x 28 Proposal Caricatures near this location before. But they were always drawn ahead of time in my Studio. So I only had to bring my regular drawing board for pretending that I was doing regular drawing until I had taken out the 22 x 28. I didn't need to bring the Giant Heavy Drawing Board Oh.

It's now 130am. I have to leave the house at 7am to get there in time. So there's no time to shop to try different ideas. I have to come up with something. Hmmmm..... Never a dull moment

Im warming up for my next booked Caricature Event. Client wants me to draw'm Funny. So I drew this Caricature based on a reference photo from my blog. No predraw.

My first attempt tonight ~ oops ~ looking too young. Quickly got rid of it and started again. Very pleased with what I drew, but I started wasting time, getting too fussy, when I started adding a print from his shirt. Good thing I caught myself ~ that isn't a good idea at Parties where I'm expected to produce and mooove. So I quickly got the gist of it and switched to the big pink flower.

BTW, the Caricature that I actually drew at a Party can be seen at the blog post https://caricatureexpress.com/happy-people

It was plenty funny enough. But just because I drew something Funny 3 years ago, doesn't mean I can draw something Funny in a few days from now. Unless I do my warm-ups. So now I'm feeling comfortable about the upcoming Event. In the Zone.

And then I felt like drawing them again. Even more exaggerated. Because I was still in the Zone when I tried to get to sleep

When I sat down to draw tonight, I planned on practicing Fast Speed Exaggerated Caricatures. So I googled Faces in the town where I will be drawing at an Event tomorrow. (that's today already). Because I was hired specifically to draw Color Caricatures (tomorrow).

But here, alone in my Studio, procrastinating at every point of the activity because it's midnight and I'm in my own space and I feel totally affected by the Title of the first picture that I noticed.....

I spent too long on it. But it felt so good to draw it