I made a recent purchase of all types of assorted colored paper, pencils and more and tried a very distorted cartoon attempt on my son. This is far from being finished and I plan to dabble some more with media, but my goal is to experiment, trying mixed medias and such, along with creating funny cartoons.

Wish me luck, cuz I need it!

After sending him this by email, he told me I am out of his will!

Update: My Uncle is not doing too well (Docs told him 6 mos and it is going on 7) so I put his boys together in a drawing to bring him some laughter. He’s a funny man himself, so I believe he is going to enjoy this one!

God bless you Uncle J! We love you!

I started drawing heads, but later had requests for themes, so I thought, “What the heck - go for it!” I aim to please!

One issue about themes is I do not memorize any body situation or have any plan. I’m not sure if that is a good or bad thing, for I know many artists who practice with body situations. I prefer to conjure up the idea given to me, at the time, and hit the paper.

As you can see, golf was the “popular” theme for the evening, so I did several golf themes and went to town on different, fun ways to draw this theme with each of my guests. Mind you, I had to think and draw fast, so I had very little time to think about proper body structure and balance. I believe I need to work a little more on this, as well as my distance scenes, (mountains/lakes/trees, etc).

For now, I’m content on what I can do at a fast pace when drawing caricatures live.
Also, I need to make sure the photo taken is not “blurry!”

My second week with Silver was to design a Dr J & H of your own. I chose to create a 1960 Ivy League Student that transforms into a slovenly obese ale lover!

I actually learned something new this week with Silver’s 2nd assignment and received my personal critique on my Fat Joe design from Steve. The critique that I received was exactly what I expected of my work, too.

Even though criticism is hard to take for some, doesn’t it make one try so much harder? It does me!

I am only finished with my second week with Silver at Schoolism and I highly recommend anyone willing to learn character design to take this course. It is really worth it!

Unfortunately, my son took my new camera to see a famous comedian and left me with my old HP camera. Little did I know that the batteries would run out after taken 3 photos. Bummer! Yet, I felt a little more creative once I warmed up.
Many were laughing “with” me at this event.

I am now in my second week course with the famous cartoonist, Steven Silver’s Character Design Class(again, a LOVELY gift from my husband) and I am really excited and anticipate his weekly assignments, and video classes.
I am a huge, HUGE fan of his style, technique and great character design skills.

If interested, click on the word Schoolism to the right of this blog to see more.

Above is a few rough samples of my character layout of Fat Joe from first week course.

Update: I added my final color Joe. We did not have to finish him in color, but I did.

Sigh! My husband loves his pastries that he is turning into one.
He goes nuts for donuts!
I’ve GOT to get him to the gym!

I tried a whole new set-up at this event. I spent much time mixing, creating and stewing my own colors (along with a touch of Angie’s ancient-chinese-secret ingredient) throughout last week and wanted to try them out at this event. (Thanks Jan) I succeeded and I will be using these colors from now on (much easier use than the art stix).

Also, I used a different table/easel, in which I would not bring this to every event, but possibly a few in my future, since it does not fold into my carrying case. It does, however, fit in back my car perfectly and rolls on wheels. I do prefer this table over any of my other easels, because of the perfect height and table access for my art supplies, so you just might see me rolling it into an event in my future, especially for outdoor events.:)

Awe… rollerskating! I used to be such a big skating buff, so I was itching to throw down my markers and put on some skates and take off to the floor. In my younger years, my father or mother would drop off my 3 brothers and I to skate every week, so as I continued to go to the big ring every week, I use to love trying all sorts of skating stunts, (jumps, jumps with turns, along with skating backwards). When you have 3 brothers very close in age, you either learn to be a stunt person or you will be thrown into it eventually.:)

During this event, one guy working the floor entered the party room to watch my drawing performance, and announced to everyone that he remembered me from 10+ years ago when I use to skate all the time. I was surprised to see him at same job and location, after all these years, and that he even remembered me. He informed me that many of my cousins attend with their kids today.

This was a really nice and easy going party! Thanks Cheyenne and Chey’s mom!

I created my own monkey for a small fun project.

Sorry, the one photo happen to cut off the child’s face. It sure would have been quite a chuckle, if you were to see his teeth appearing in top of photo, huh?

FYI: I like to take a few photos of my work to study where I need to improve and how much I have improved. I aim to keep growing with my art.