There's a place in America called Ohio, there's a place in Ohio called Sandusky, and in this place called Sandusky, there's a building called the Maryland building. Kaman's Art Shoppes houses some of its Cedar Point employees here and also large spiders. Most of these employees are artists of some kind. I went to visit my old stopping grounds and couldn't have been more warmly received. What a fine time we all had.
This is a sign I made. It's 20 by 30 on foam core. I put up this sign at Bellmont Park and now I no longer work there. I was averaging about 20 bucks a day. I thought I would make more money and get to draw more if I put up this sign instead of our prices sign. Well, it worked like a charm. I was drawing non-stop, and got customers before the sign was even finished. In a four hour span I made approximately as much as my best day at Bellmont which was a six hour span. So there you have it. I knew there may be some ramifications, but I was doing it on the level and everything. The thing is, at Bellmont we got set prices, BUT, first of all we can wheel and deal, and second of all its all on the honor system. My plan, which I did follow through with was to give the park their 30 percent cut of all the tips I brought in and give my boss lady her 20 percent cut. Also I sold 5 tubes legitimately so the appropriate percents were separated out accordingly as usual. I got canned though, went out with a bang, did some drawings, invoked laughter and happiness.
So then I made one more sign, which is the bottom sign which I will call "familia excelente." Me and my friends, Marcus and Eric went to Balboa Park and sat there with our signs and we each walked out with approximately 40 bucks in a span of four hours. How do you like that?! First time out there, and it was a Monday; 4o bucks. It was so much fun. I'm sure we'll do it again soon.
The guy was extra somber. The gal was extra bubbly. They were a good match.
Aida and I went to Six Flags Magic Mountain. It was pretty fun. Also, we got a caricature drawn.
This is a talented young fellow who's going to be drawing at the San Diego Zoo. Check out his stuff. His name is Marcus.
It is quite possible to copy a photo of a person as directly as you can and not get a good likeness. This drawing of Dave Chappelle illustrates this. It's not to say that a portrait is less prone to capturing likeness, but for a likeness to be caught it requires the same amount of attention that a caricature requires. It demands the sensitivity of a cautious and judgmental eye. 
I was commissioned to do this piece. It's for a Father's Day gift for the guy with the big nose. They were very specific about all the specifics. They had photos of the guns they wanted to be shooting, and Jack Bauer was to be shooting the same sort of gun the dad was shooting. So they had photos of the guns from the side, so I guess they actually own these semiautomatic weapons or, you know they might be automatic. I'm not sure, but I went ahead and gave him a big nose just the same. What else, what else? Oh yes, they were all to be shooting in the same direction with an explosion going off in a different place from where they were shooting; they wanted a 24 clock counting down somewhere; they were all to be wearing CTU gear; and the baby's CTU letters were to be in pink. I was a little puzzled about this because in all the reference of CTU gear I saw, I didn't see any letters, so I just kind of wrote CTU in pink. Problem solved. And here's a clever thing I did. Feel free to use this. The time on the 24 clock is actually the date of Father's Day this year. That's right. Gotta make a copy of that one for Grandma. Oh, and one more point of interest. The baby is a girl.
This is that guy, Jim, from The Office. I drew him before. This is a wee little pencil doodle.
