Theme Park Examples

Had a problem last week adding Photos to the blog, but it all seems to be working at the moment so I will try and add last weeks now. Thought I would just put up a few Theme Park style caricatures which I tend to do while its not busy. I usually rough a pencil sketch on my board and leave it there for 1/2 an hour to try and entice someone to have one? Then I ink it in and leave for another 1/2 an Hour, then colour it in and again , you get the picture ! Not all the likenesses are that great as sometimes my reference is a bit obscure or just crap! I liked doing Ceelo Green at the bottom the best.

I have stopped using the Theme park paper as it is all different at each park and they get upset if I display the wrong park paper? so I am just using blank paper now so I can use them any where , although they get upset with that at a few?

Finally managed to get a caricature I drew of a fellow colleague at Chessington on here I think the file format was to big?

This was just a quick note and attempt to get some drawings on, so Bye for now.

Still Busy in the Theme Parks

Hi all, I am still banging out lots of cute drawings of small children( but not really caricatures) which I  do get a lot of praise and thanks from all concerned.  I have now got a much better appreciation of how difficult it is to do what we do, the various styles we all have and how customers can be so demanding of what they want, but most of all I think I am Cheap!. The other day I got to draw a family of 5, and started off very tame, but by the end had gone quite extreme as they warmed to me. They soon changed their opinions by the end and I don't think they appreciated the last 2, but still payed, as I am cheap. I do love reading other artists blogs about difficult customers or funny stories of things that happen, I myself the other day at Warwick Castle had a Duck attack my customer around the ankles as they sat for me, she was laughing a lot about it, which made it easy to draw her smiling! ( Who on earth put the bread around the chair?)
I have been useless this week taking pictures and haven't managed any, even though I got to draw some really interesting faces, none more so than a gentleman called Arther who was enjoying his 80th birthday and was a great sport.



I have been trying to add a couple of pictures but not having much luck at present so I will try later in the week, Best wishes to all.

Busy Half Term Week

Well the half term week was a very busy time in the theme parks, which as one would expect where full of kids enjoying themselves. Quite a few had Caricatures done by myself and my co-workers, so thank you all for sitting down  and letting us caricaturize you, my fingers now need a rest. It was a much better week than last with no bad customers at all! I have been reading Joe Bluhm's blog from years ago about working in the Florida Theme parks and everything he Say's is true and really just knocking out cute drawings may pay the bills but it does not give the artist any satisfaction at all. Occasionally I just let rip and do something a little more extreme and see how it is received and up to now everyone has still paid? so obviously I need to push it further to get the shock factor. Enough ramblings for now here is a selection of Caricatures done over the last week but I still forget to take everyone I do and their are know extreme cases here which is a shame.

I  also got to do a leaving cartoon for this lady who I think was very pleased with it.

And finally I do get to work in some lovely surroundings, such as Warwick Castle and thought I would snap this Peacock standing majestically on an Urn. I still haven't got a picture of one with its feathers all opened out but if I do I will post it on here.

Have a good week to all.