50TH BDAY LIVE PARTY SAMPLES!

LLLLOTSA FUN at this 50th bday bash!
They were big fans of the CRAZIER stuff-and a lot of GREAT faces for it!
I'm starting to really like doing groups more than singles-especially w/ this wide variety of shapes/ expression!
Congrats and Thanks so much for the sore gut from LAUGHING!
THanks Deb!

CARICATURES IN A FLASH!

Man, THAT is one misleading title, since some of these took a helluva lotta time!
I've been trying to teach myself FLASH and doing some caricatures in it to keep me interested in it, sometimes the only way I can learn is to make it fun...
It's a little frustrating in that a lot of features in PS and Illustrator are so intuitive to me and they are non existent in Flash. It's starting to grow on me now though and it does have some really cool features.
I approached these in a character design way-some of these I'm pretty happy with, and that made it worth all the wall-headbanging in the beginning! Any Flash gurus, feel free to enlighten me!

PROJ GRADS-POST PROMS-COLOR

THESE ARE SOME Pix from a recent 10pm-3am gig with fellow NCNers John Sprague, Angie Jordan & Emily Anthony among others. (Check them out on sidebar) This is 3-4 years doing this gig and these kids are ALWAYS cool to work with!
Here's a pic I took of kids taking pix of my work thru the window while waiting in line. A lot of these kids will head for my chair-and some of them will avoid it like the plague. I like when the sitter not only knows what they're in for, but look forward to it! Some of these are from the "laughter" vids posted previously. Thanks fo da gig, Sprigman! and thanks for all the great LAUGHS, East Brunswick grads! Congrats!

"Luck of the Draw"

I worked 7 years as a graphic artist for Toll Brothers mostly in Photoshop & Illustrator.
Graphic programs can be a lot of fun, but nothing beats good ole fashioned DRAWING!
I've done some pretty sledgehammery smashed up drawings of some coworkers, some of which I plan to post.
I've also created a couple gift caricatures and custom artwork for some departments and employees.

Toll had a "Fine Art" contest and my 3 pieces (counting as one entry) won me an award and was published in their company newsletter "Bricks & Sticks" so
I was approached to do my own column, featuring a caricature of an employee per issue.
The fun part of it was that I could do whatever style/approach I chose. I planned to vary as much as I could and experiment with new influences.

I had a couple submissions but this guy was hands down the funnest face in the bunch-plus he entered 40 seconds after the issue came out...
This is the first "winner" of the Toll's "Luck of the Draw" contest and the last since I was one of many, many who got laid off, don't know if this guy did too. If, by chance this guy visits my blog-feel free to email me & I'll send you the hi-res file. You were fun to draw!

Does anybody remember laughter?

Does anybody remember laughter?

Super Hero Gift Illustration-cont'd

Here is the finished piece for use on invitations. (Not sure how the one image got inverted?)

GRAD PARTY CARICATURES IN COLOR

The Grad girl, a beau, and the lovely Maria and hubby...

GRAD PARTY CARICATURES IN COLOR

I really hate that blogger doesn't keep the text posts in order of the pix posted!
Heres more, probably with misplaced comments too...oh well...
She looked at me like she wanted to bite my head off!...NOT THE DOG...The lady on the right!

GRAD PARTY CARICATURES IN COLOR !

This guy wanted some hair-so I gave him some-his wife's!

GRAD PARTY CARICATURES IN COLOR 2

ARMPIT AROMA

In da GYM...LOTTA fun but shooooo-WEEE!
Plenty of very nice EYE candy...not so nice NOSE candy!