A baby with circular eyes, and more!

Sorry for the photo quality.
I always look for a chance to draw eyes as complete circles. I rarely get the chance. This was one such chance, and the parents loved it.
Free demo that the lame little kid didn't buy.

Some more stuff

Rodrigo
I was very happy with how she turned out.
I was very happy with how she turned out, and I like the water, and the cloud.

A little story

A free demo is a drawing done at no charge to the customer, but they are left with the option to buy it if they want. I was drawing one of these to loosen up on a blustery Tuesday. I did the drawing with a Prismacolor marker, rather fast and was very experimental. I wasn’t too happy with the result, but it was just a demo. While I was finishing up, a family came up and my coworker got the sketch. It seemed they were getting all their sketches done individually, so that left me open to drawing for them. The mother made a comment.
She told her son, “You can sit for him if you want. He does them for practice.”
I said, “No. I do the real ones too.” There was a pause.
“Okay. You can have a seat. I’ll do a demo.

The sketch came out okay, but it was a bit hideous and wonky. I stood up, leaving the drawing on the board and thanked the kid for his time. They ended up buying the demo, and once again, I didn’t hustle the family, though I should have. I just really didn’t feel like drawing a family that was enjoying my coworker’s horrible sketches so much. It was an arrogance thing on my part -- arrogance and a lack of inspiration. I stood, facing the passing crowd, watching the palm trees bend as I waited for the next family. Occasionally I would walk to my coworker’s eisel and watch him draw.
Then, something very unusual happened. Something that in my two years of doing this has never happened. The mother got my attention and said to me, “Sorry for the comment I made. I wasn’t trying to say that he’s a real artist and you’re a fake artist I just thought maybe you’re in training or something.” I smiled, looking at her kind of shocked. I said. “No. That’s okay” and suddenly felt like I had been moping pathetically. Too often I feel like the customers are in charge of the situation and we’re just their servants who draw for them when they wish, but actually it’s our job to take control and give them a memorable experience and a sweet drawing.
The woman said, “Well, why am I waiting for him? Will you draw me?”
“Sure.” I answered, and we walked to my eisel. That’s when I did a horrible drawing. Everything was in it’s right place, and all I had to do was come correct. I hate that feeling when I’m about one tenth into a color body drawing, and the face I’ve sketched is just worthless. Now there’s no motivation to put any finesse into the surroundings and the coloring.
On top of that, I had a real good rapor going with the woman, but I felt like I was a little kid she was comforting. Turns out what the woman does is she’s a life coach. I’m sure that has everything to do with everything. Before she spoke to me, when I was standing around, attempting to mope inwardly, she was picking up on those vibes. Our brief relationship was one of her being overly sensitive to me, believing that I’m a fragile soul and me feeling really awkard about that and in response trying to act confident and stable.
In spite of all this, I’m so grateful for her. She was one customer in a million. I can still see her sitting there, being wonderful while I, on the other side, was finishing this horrible drawing which would be her reward. And of course she’s going to act like she loves it whether she does or not. She’ll see the good in it if anyone will. We artists always have those types of regrets.
That’s my story. The moral has to be something like, don’t feel sorry for yourself or eventually someone else will and then you’ll give them a crappy drawing too. Give me a critique, Matt McBrien. dot dot dot.

Check out this Nate Sketch

http://www.jackin-faces.blogspot.com/

go here and see a sweet sketch that Nate Kapnicky did.

some okay park sketches

man with a wee black leprechaun

She didn't know what she wanted for a body...but I did.
I didn't finish drawing the hat of the guy with the red stripes, and just forgot.

I thought I'd color this one in real nice. Sorry no photo of the kid.

Three Celebrities

I think it's pretentious to not reveal the identity of one's celebrity carictures, and I'm a pretentious fellow, but I'll tell you who these guys are anyway. This is Steve Carrell
Larry David
Louis Armstrong

Many Park Skitches

coworker lady named Elizabeth
Sketch I found from Cedar Point Big Bash.
Awesome customer from Africa, who had a British accent

Make a wish girl

Her mother said she's gonna have some big rolls in some movies comin out soon. I forget her name but I remember it was all French sounding.

triple color face

A Bunch of Park Sketchin'

I like the baby's face and for some reason I like how the hair color and the hairline aren't attatched, but the mom's face is way lame and formulaic.

Geoffery Rush frequents the local Soup Plantation

I was rill happy with this one
That's my little brown hand.
Just a demo. Sorry.

Lil sketch

Post Post

This man was a kindly old Hare Krishna
Not sure they liked this too much
They loved it and I had a crowd behind me really into it.

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The bold thing about this drawing is the line I used for the bill of the hat is completely dry. I used a prismacolor marker for it.

Me Again and a Shark

Please don't look at this kid's face. I gave him way too much hair and made countless other mistakes, but that's a funny body, no question.

Political Figures

I'm tryin to get in the swing of drawing celebrities. It's a very different game, drawing from photos and video, but I think we park caricaturists have some fresh ideas to offer the world of editorial illustration. These drawings don't necessarily portray that in full, but there are hints of it. Retail caricature can potentially be a breeding ground for new approaches and ideas for cartooning, as long as artists feel they don't have to be afraid of the customer.

Soul Rebels

These were some of the coolest customers I've ever had. When I show up to work I wait around for a couple hours with no business at all. All the while, fuming inside because I want to draw and nobody wants to sit down, and some people say, "we'll come back" later, and none of those people did. If you're a park caricature artist, you know what I'm talking about. Then these people come up. I can tell they're respectful of art. Look at them. She's got dreads and big earholes. He's got on a soul rebel shirt. And they don't say any of the nonsense about don't draw this or that. A short ways into the picture, the girl was like, "Are you into graffiti or anything." Whataya know, I just started messing with it about a week ago -- putting letters together and such. They were cool, cuz they said the right things. They shut up most the time and didn't appear uncomfortable. They loved the drawing. My firend, Matt McBrien checks out my blog from time to time and told me that I should write more. Well... I just did.

This is my boss and my friend, Manny.

Pencil Sketch

This is my good buddy Manny.

Aaron Phiby Comes Correct For the Most Part

I like this one quite a bit but the eyebrows are to thick and empahsized and angry. Other than that, I really like it.
For these sketches, instead of using a Dixon Markette I used a Prismacolor Marker. The top and bottom sketch were done with a brown marker.