...Antwan always in the cafeteria buggin kids for change.

Sketchbook 99

Jeez, has it been that long? To go along with ye olde comic strippe I had posted on myspace, which I wll not post here, here are some other drawings from the book. I intended to continue on with that blog, but didnt get to it, and thought this was a better place for them.

Caricaturist Jeff Pecina

"Gig"gity-Goo!

So here are pics from a gig last night. Recently at gigs I just havent felt like taking the extra effort of photographing sketches. I felt it was taking time away from the client. Just didnt do it...All these were taken after I was done.
But this is good...Blog was hungry...tired and lonely
ENJOY!!!

Click here to see this guys reaction

All my sketches were put up as they were done. Cool idea, I've seen it done, but I guess I never considered doing it. Usually people get drawn and then put them away, or take 'em out to the car right away. This way everybody gets to see them.

CLICKER CLATTER

Wow, it feels like an eternity since my last post, I've been offline for a while. Anyway, here is the cartoon that the "froglick" drawing was for. I did a few of the other characters as well, but most of the character design was done by Adam English.

Froglick

Drawing I did today that will be used as a still in a short cartoon. It will be seen in the background as a newscaster is talking about a group of teens tripping from licking frogs.

Done for the Season

Done for the Season

Grouping

Fitting more than just two people on a sketch is often very fun. Especially when you have a great group of friends or family who want to get drawn all funny looking. It helps exaggeration by making you want to show all the differences in each face at the same time, while you're also thinking about composition and visual weight of the drawing. I don't enjoy seeing the same old "cookie cutter" sketches all bunched in on a page, that's pretty boring.
To prevent this, sometimes I'll seat each person one at a time and only do a quick sketch of them just with one my colors real lightly, making sure I go from my gut instinct on an exaggeration. Then, I'll go ahead with the marker seating each one again, making sure I go for what I origanlly intended on the first glance. I'm sure many other artists use this type of method or something similar...I find it to be someting very difficult to perfect.

Dorney Park, PA

I'd like to thank Tim Reed for letting me stay at his "Love Palace"

*Notice the Joe Bluhm reject to the left of sketch in last picture*