Oh no! Or so I thought for a moment.

My New Agent contacted me about Tomorrow's job. She said that they would be providing the paper, and it would be fine if I just draw head/shoulders in black/white. That means, of course, that the Paper will be White!

I figured I should check it out. I felt like I should try a Warm Up on White Paper using Only Black Markers and Black Color Stick.

Oh. Looking at the randomly chosen reference pictures, I sure wish I could use Blue Paper this time. Or at least a pink paper or a brown color stick. But as an exercise ~ to be ready for tomorrow's event ~ I really kept it Black/White.

Success! I didn't need the extra supplies after-all. I feel confident to draw at tomorrow's Black/White event

It's time to get myself in gear. I will have to draw Fast at tomorrow's Event. Huge place with thousands of people. I can't be trying to redevelop myself. I won't have time to reinvent the wheel.

So it's back to the way I have been successfully drawing at Events already. And we'll see if my recent Cartoony studies might affect some of them.

To warm up, I redrew a few of the Caricatures that I previously drew at Events. And I even looked up The Dark Knight online ~ Not that I would ever use a different artist's character at an event ~ but I felt like I should familiarize myself with him. Because of some of the things that I had been told about tomorrow's event.

Note: as always, if I draw more than one face in a Caricature, it doesn't necessarily mean that the people know each other. I pick them at random.

The Artist should be drawing for herself. Or else she's just a hack. She here I am again. Drawing and drawing and drawing and drawing in my Time Off. Even though my previous style already works just fine at Events.

But here I am still learning my new style. I arbitrarily chose a photo of a woman that I previously drew just fine at a Party. I felt Blocked against using my new style tonight, but I made it through to Success.

I lost the first picture I drew ~ trying the new style. Came out crummy anyway. Maybe it's just not my Zone for this moment. Another part of Artwork besides trying new things ~ is to Not Force It. Comes out best if I do what's working. So i put myself onto Uninspired Automatic. Feh.

Nope. So I went back to my original reason for drawing on my time-off. Nope ~ this isn't what I'm looking for. The next one was really getting away from me. Then an ugly picture. That's not right. Then perky, but wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Am I really just drawing the same Incorrect choices over and over? Stop. Look again. Come up with something different. I started the circle thing. Got it right the 2nd time. Pretty good Caricature, but I sure hope I would never draw anything like that at a Party. It would get a good laugh, but that's not who I am. It's not what I want to do.

I want to help people accept themselves with all their idiocyncracies, and feel thrilled with themselves ~ just the way they really are. I like clean, energetic drawings. My final drawing here: Success

I finally love my Party Caricature style. I drew some Caricatures here based on photos of people that I previously drew fine at Parties. All sorts of different approaches I had used at those different Parties. But now I finally found The Right Answer. The Best approach while Entertaining at Parties. The Best style for the Guests to display in their homes. Any home.

The first picture posted here is the way to go. Fast. Entertaining. Party Spirit!

Then I drew it with more detail ~ I also like the Picture, even though it looks a Little stiffer than the first Happy picture. But it took so much more time, and I felt a litl struggle to keep my mind from wandering. Party Guests like the Entertainment to keep Moving. And Clients like the Party Artist to draw as many people as possible. So the first Quick drawing is the way to go:

Oh yes. Like really niiiice. I'm on a roll.

Drew another Caricature. Good, but too tame for Real Art:

Redone. No predraw. And I'm back. Way to go. Energetic: