Caricature Entertainment at Weddings!

Weddings are the ideal occasion to have a caricaturist entertaining guests.
When it comes to entertainment, you always want something spectacular and memorable to make a lasting impression on your guests.
Standard entertainment like bands, discos and magicians are all a very good part of the mix. But what do they leave you with? Wonderful memories, of [...]

The Complex Group Caricature – The Composition

In the brief I have been given several distinct groups of people in different settings. But all of them must come together in one finished illustration.
So, first of all I drew a very rough Rough to show the client.

Next, I start sketching out all the individual scenarios

All these are sent to the [...]

The Group Caricature continued! Drawing faces – lots of faces!

Once all the photos have been correctly labelled and collated, the first thing I want from a client is agreement that the caricatures are accurate likenesses of each person in the group caricature.
Working on A4 sheets folded in half, I draw rough pencilled versions of each face in the A5 areas.

These are then scanned in [...]

How to draw a complex group caricature

I had to delay the completion of this particular blog until after the finished framed caricature was delivered to the client, which I did last Tuesday – he was, of course, delighted. Now, I am happy to reveal the stage by stage method of creating a complex group caricature:
The client contacts me and eventually sends [...]

London Caricaturist Blogged by Zakomedia!

My web designer friend Simon Jones was so delighted with a caricature of him and his partner, Jovinda, that he blogged about it on ZakoMEdia Blog.

HeadCases: Brilliant new comedy show on ITV

I hope you’re all enjoying the excellent animated caricature/comedy show Headcases.
It’s the best thing under the heading ’satire’ I’ve seen in ages. And a worthy successor
to Spitting Image.

Pictured here: Jordan and Peter Andre
You’ve got to split your sides at ‘Mohamed Al Fayed’s World of Conspiracies’ and Prince
Philip as Dick Dastardly out to ‘get Kate Middleton’.
Seems [...]

The 12th Louviers Cartoon Festival!

Well, yet another superbly well-attended public Cartoon Festival put on by the tiny medieval village of Louviers, in the splendour of France’s Normandy countryside.
The usual suspects were invited by organiser, Daniel Chabouis: Guy Carter, Terry Christien, John Landers and myself.
We started by going a day early and staying over in Paris. Three of us visited [...]

Bob Dylan sings about caricatures.org.uk!

WATCH THIS!

Oh, Mama, can this really be the end, To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again?

Well, not so much Memphis, more like High Wycombe which sounds less poetic.
Returning from a job last night I was shocked to see the petrol gauge flashing alarmingly.
After a few gut wrenching miles along the M40, I found a darkened forecourt belonging to Asda which had credit card petrol pumps.
Phew!!!
With tank happily replete I continued [...]

Lots of NEWS coming soon!

As is often the case, I am taken away for days at a time by either work or travel and then it takes ages updating the blog!
When things settle down I will be able to entertain and delight you with NEWS of the Louviers Cartoon Festival, from which I have just returned, in France. I [...]