Practicing quick body/hobbies. Not my favorite thing to do, but I have to be ready for it. For the Few times when my clients request it.

Started with some bodies, but they kinda disappeared as I just played around with my papers here. I especially liked playing with my lines on the last picture.

I rarely recommend body/hobby for Party Caricatures. Because, of course, it takes at least twice as long to draw both a face and a body/hobby as it takes to draw just a face. And people at Parties usually want to get their picture quickly. And clients usually want me to draw as many people a possible in the limited amount of time we have at the Party.

Besides, the Body/hobby usually has nothing to do with the Party. Like, I'll have a young man in a suit telling me that he likes to play baseball. Or a young lady in a Party Dress telling me that she hopes to be a librarian. Like, like, aren't we there for the 'title' of the Party? If that young man is at his friend's Bar Mitzvah, his focus should be his friend's Bar Mitzvah. And if that girl is at her family's Christmas Party, we should be encouraging her to focus on Christmas. And her family. Let them do the Party when they're doing the Party. And play ball when they're playing ball. And listen to their science teacher when they're in science class. Do what you're doing when you're doing it.

So I'm not watching a baseball game when I'm asked to draw him playing baseball. And I'm not in a library when I'm asked to draw her as a librarian. That means that the face is drawn based on what I see. But I kinda dream up memorized symbols to draw the scenes that are not what I'm looking at. Switching back and forth between two different types of Artwork.

Parties only last a few hours. We can only do whatever we're going to do within each hour.

I drew these pictures on September 30th. I can tell because the bride had had me preprint the papers with the date. Such nice people. Today would be their three-month anniversary.

I remember these people ~ how beautifully the bride danced ~ how happy the guests were ~ and that the bride even emailed me the day after the celebrations to let me know how much everyone enjoyed the pictures that i drew. We all have such good memories.

Ooops ~ I just started uploading pictures, but I prefer to wait until tomorrow.

.....to be continued

Oh I really want to look over my pictures here. I want to post them and keep my blog up to date. But it's almost midnight, and I have to wake up at 6 a.m. to get to Manhattan to handle a Proposal Caricature tomorrow. Oh.

So here's just two - taken from the top of the pile. I had drawn them at an event During Hurricane Sandy. Saving my gas so I could get to the event which was far away. But they had Heat (Yay) and Lights (Yay Yay). Such peace compared to my house during the Storm-days.

I had been thrown back into the 21st century from my house that had no internet, heat, or power for twelve days. And to make sure everything felt crazy, the people were in Costumes. The first photo shows a little family of Moving children. The second photo shows a boy who looked like That when he sat down for me to draw his face. Never a dull moment.