Tis the Season for giftins & commissions!!

Here are a couple favorites from this years Christmas' gift commissions.
Quite a contrast in theme/ style but the feedback from the clients was very similar in that they each loved their piece!
1st was a cutie toon of a boy in NY who really likes T Rex.

Client feedback:

Omg! We LOVE it! Thank you again so very much! Great job, as I knew it would be.  My husband is a pretty tough sell and he thinks it's awesome.  

You rock! Have a great holiday. 

Best,

Val

2nd one was a little off-center for Christmas time, but it definitely fits perfectly with the client & his instructions! Frank is a super fun guy with a seriously warped sense of humor!
He has a line of twisted tee-shirts called "Chalked" that I designed for him per his directives.
http://www.chalkedtees.com/
Her large forehead was special request-
" O and if you can do me one favor and make her head abnormally big that would be awesome. I always make fun of her dome and she doesn't believe me so if you draw it she'll go nuts, and I win haha! but besides that, the style, and how bad you mess us up is all you. I want it to be a surprise to me to lol."

Client feedback: HAHAHA!! Its Awsome! thanks man! shes gonna dig it! I hope you have a merry Christmas.
Hey Patrick my girlfriend loved the pic. Thanks again man! Merry Christmas

DIGITAL GIFT CARICATURES

This is the 4th or 5th year I've had the pleasure of doing the grad gift caricatures for my client in Canada. The more I work in Flash the more I LOVE it! Bern comes up with some pretty funny scenarios and I just love to run with it-this time I capitalized on the MAD mag's Sergio Aragones "The Shadow Knows" theme for THE HOBO/ GUITAR PLAYER, which by the way IS MY FAVE, ...it also happens to be of my client's son! Thanks Bernd!