Caricature theme - traditional Indian wedding

Client's brief:-
"Hi Jit,

Here are the details of the photos attached:

1. Bride: That is the photo of my fiance.
2. Indian bridal ..blah blah...blah : thats the jewellery my fiance wants in the photos
3. Dhiraj: My photo
4. DSC_0059 : Our photo
5. Indian wedding caricature: that is the caricature you had drawn for one of your clients
6. Height Difference: Just added a photo so that you could get the idea of our heights, though i dont know whether you would need those details.
7. lord ganesha: the idol of our god.
8. South indian lamp: the photo of the lamp that is used in our weddings.


Details of the caricature:
In the photo of indian wedding caricature that you have drawn before we like most of the elements there, however we might need some small changes to make it our own

Bride Details
1. Please keep the pose same ( I mean in the caricature i should be carrying her in my arms just the way you have done it for one of your clients)
2. the jewellery should be like what we have given in the photo attached. the nose ring , earnings and the jewellery on the head should be the same if you can detail at that level.
3. keep the bridal wear ( clothes) the same as in your caricature ( red with golden touches). No green.
4. the garland around the bride and groom's neck should be in red and white and not in green and yellow like in your caricature
Please keep the rest of the detailing the same as in your caricature

Groom Details :
1. please keep the same pose
2. the clothing also the same ( golden kurta and boots). The boots should be the same way as in your caricature.
3. I dont want the red spot ( tilak ) on the head.and of course do not show the one or two grey hair I have :)) in the photos

Please make sure we both have a beautiful smile in the caricature.

Background details:
1. Please have the elephant in the same way but have it on both the sides( left and right). you could try and add your touch in making it grander if you want.
2. The drapings on the side can be of red/ golden colour like in your caricature.
3. the background can be the same. dark blue with little stars. Please add a half moon in the background.the moon should be smiling as well.
4. the table on the side should have lord ganesha on it just the way you have done it for your client.you could use the picture that i have provided.
5. Please make a chocolate fountain on the side next to lord ganesha.
6. Please add the south indian lamp on the right side in front of the drapings on the right(when I am saying right it is to my right looking at the photo). Of course it should be lit as well.

Overall everything remains pretty much the same that you have done it for your earlier client. Just minute touches here and there.
These are the details.Please give us a call for anything you want to know.

Our wedding is in the first week of december and we would like to have this caricature done by Nov 15th ( three weeks) from now as we have to give it for printing as well.

Please let us know the price and how to transfer it to your account. We hope that you give us a good price. This is beautiful art and needs to appreciated and bargaining would demean the whole art and artist."

As I go on reading the brief, The more I feel stressed up.:D
Previous drawing (which this client wanted to use as the base reference) was already a tough job. This one has different additional requests. My worry is that I missed out all the minor details he requested. On top of that, referring to all these details took out a substantial amount of my drawing time. Thus, this drawing took even more time than the previous one. Sweat!


Took a snapshot of this ink artwork, as I think it looks good on its own.


Of course, the colour version looks even better! And more time needed on the textile pattern and detailing.

Client's response:-
"It's very nice!"

Caricature theme - couple @ theme park

Client's brief:-
"...a theme of me and my girl sitting on the theme park ride. It is on some sort of plane where you can control up and down during the ride. That is where we took the picture in hong kong disney land. Was wondering if you will able to put draw 2 kind of different breed dog in. One male dog that is shih tzu and the other female dog will be mini daschund. Maybe flying together with us in the ride.....

Due to the busy scheduler I had, I didn't really went to your blog to take a look at the art work you did. I just heard from my friend that I do not need to go down in person and everything could just settled in e-mail. Anyway, today I got much free time and take a look at your blog, I'm really impressed in the art work you did, was wondering if I can add some more idea in the caricature I want? If you have not start drawing.

I love the sun set you drew with markers in the art piece. So was wondering if I can add a sun set at the background too? Theme with sitting on the theme park ride will be still the same, instead, can we be sitting on a dog instead? The theme park ride always comes with many animals to sit on and you can control up and down during the ride. I think dogs are cute and my girl love dogs. Will it be possible to add hong kong disney land somewhere?....."


Of course, these 'dogs' are based on imagination. Don't think they exist in HongKong Disneyland.
I tilted the angle of teh whole drawing , to give more dynamism to the swing.
The cartoon couple at the back was added in to exaggerate the effect.:)

Client's feedback:-
"It's very good!"
He told me that he's thinking to do a family portraits in acrylic....

Caricature theme - couple on Mini Cooper convertible

Client's brief:-
"I have given some thought to what I want to see in the design. I don't want it to be a birthday themed caricature, but more something that reflects us as a couple. Though perhaps you can include a brief birthday message somewhere in the design. Perhaps a short "Happy 40th Birthday! Love, Sheri"? That sorta thing...

Meanwhile, here are some things that you can include:
1. He's British and I'm Singaporean so I'd like the design to incorporate landmarks from both countries, perhaps the Palace of Westminster (Big Ben) and the Merlion? I like the cartoon Merlion that I've seen in your previous work. Also I'd like it featured the opposite way i.e. Big Ben on my side and the Merlion on his. Also perhaps you could include the flags (Union Jack for the UK)
2. We're both Arsenal fans, so perhaps one or both of us could be wearing an Arsenal shirt and/or a scarf perhaps? Or you could feature him in an Arsenal shirt while putting me in a taekwondo uniform? I've attached a not so nice pic of myself in one, and another of one of my instructors. Note the logo on the dobok. I'm not a black belt yet, but I wouldn't mind you drawing me in one - artistic licence and all that. Lol...
3. He's a big Audi fan and I'm a MINI Cooper Convertible kinda girl, maybe you can include either or both cars in there? See pics attached - though I'd like the MINI in red please.
4. If both cars are not possible could you include a Trek bike? Perhaps the Audi R8 with the EX5? I've attached pics of both our bikes here. The EX 5 WSD is my bike while his is the EX 7.
5. We're both into Apple, photography and movies, and I work in theatre while he's a treasurer. Could you incorporate some of that in the design? Perhaps an SLR camera, an apple logo or macbooks, iphones or a film reel here and there?
6. As for the people (us!) in the design, I'd like you to feaure us in a couple-friendly position, either holdings hands, him hugging me from behind or faces close togethere, etc? You decide what's best. Oh, and please include my new Oakley glasses as attached (the solo pic) (that I recently lost) instead of the old ones featured in some of the pics. And I've got short, spiky reddish-brown hair which may not reflected in these old pics, while Stephen keeps his hair closely cropped (I shave it for him!)
Some of my favourite works of yours are the one of the British Indian couple and the Chip n Dale one. The midnight blue background looks quite interesting visually. But then I'd leave it to you to decide it it'll look good with everything else."


Long long request. This client wanted too many stuffs to be included in this drawing.
Of course, I have to selectively choose what's deemed fit.

Think Mini Cooper is the most popular car requested by my clients.

Her reaction, upon seeing this caricature:-
"Wow! It's perfect!"

SMS from the her, after she left:-
"Hi Jit, just got back & had a proper look. I think it's damn cool!"

Lady caricature in pencil

This caricature was done with Staedtler 9B, which I have not used it for a long time.
Surprisingly, it is harder than teh Faber Castell 8B pencil, which shouldn't be in the first place.

Caricature for Town Club

This client requested for hairy legs, singlet, shorts and slippers for this boss, swinging his golf club and missed the golf ball, with the Town Club logo on the ball, and 'MCIL" on the flag.

Caricature theme - wedding on Mini Cooper convertible

Browsing through this client's email for the brief, and quite surprised that she first contacted me on 27 Dec 2007 (wow, 2 years ago), stating that "...We need it either by june 08 or end of 08..."

She finally placed her order recently:-
"Hi Jit,

I decided to do a Caricature in colour marker with background and body for my actual day wedding (14 Nov 2009) as my wedding photos doesnt turn out well.

Requirements:
1. Background will be Singapore Polytechnic, this is where we know each other :)
2. Both of us sitted in an open top mini cooper (pepper white color) (see attached - Wedding car) looking back and with a 'We're Married' sign hanging wording (similar to this design: http://www.flickr.com/photos/caricature/2974049493/ )
3. Groom wearing black suit, bride hair with simple tiara & veil (preferably no perm hair)"


My impression of Singapore Polytechnic was not like this building. This was searched online.

"Hi Jit,

I’m Phoebe. Thanks for your great drawing for my wedding (14 Nov 2009 – Drawing about the Singapore Poly)!! Loves it a lot.. my husband and friends and relatives had lots of great compliment on the drawing :) Thank you!!
I will drop you another email regarding another drawing for my cousin wedding in Dec. Waiting for her email. "

Oh, thank you.:)

Pencil portraits of 3 musicians

Client's brief:-
"Hi Chong
great to have spoken to you. I am looking at doing a serious potraiture of an indian musician. a pencil sketch, a4 size. I would like the full shading rather than a simple sketch. I'm curious as to the paper u use since some of the shades seem more dynamic with textured paper. Im not sure if its the paper or just ur style, but i hope to see some deep blacks and a range of shades.

I dont have many high resolution pictures of the person just what i could find on the internet. You will have to advise if you are comfortable with this resolution. I am looking at a portrait similar to this picture
.....i'd like to do a portrait of the 3 photos i sent in my last email, on A3. Please use them as reference. I can make the 50% deposit later in the evening.

For the picture of the man with the mic (his initials are SPB), appreciate if u can draw him without the mic. For the other man (his initials are K), appreciate if u can draw him more clean shaven, think there's a bit of nose hair as well!

i am attaching more reference pics to help u. since its all stand alone pictures that i'd like drawn together, u can be creative in making them all part of one piece. For your own information, they are all legendary tamil musicians (lyricist, singer and composer) and i'd like to remember them through this portraiture."


Thinking of how to put 3 of them together aesthetically on 1 drawing.
This is my attempt.

Client's response after seeing this artwork:-
"Ah... That's very nice!"


I played around with the layout digitally, after the original artwork is being drawn.
This could be another better version.
What do you think?

Caricature theme - diver

Client's brief:-
"Riwtik ¬– The guy in the photo titled Ritwik. Sorry about the girl in it, but couldn’t find a good shot of him alone…
• Ritwik’s really into diving… could you make him wear scuba gear and a snorkeling mask without covering his face though? Maybe he could be wearing it on top of his head or something…
• He should be dreaming about mutton biryani…
• He should be seated at a drum kit…
• The background should be of him on a beach"


Response from the client for these 2 caricatures:-
"Cool! Nice! Very Nice!"

Caricature theme - Naruto

Client's brief:-
"Hi Jit,

Thanks for speaking to me just now. As discussed, I’d like to request 2 B/W ink caricatures of the guys in the photos attached, with body and background. Below is a description of each guy, hope you can work your magic with this!

Yogi
• Yogi is a HUGE Naruto fan. So the overall theme for the drawing should be Anime… Could you also make him look a little bit like Naruto (attached) with the costume and hair with headband? Not in the same fighting stance as the picture though.
• He’s got a Russian girlfriend, whose initials are “J.S”. could you make him hold a bottle of “J.S. Vodka” printed on the label in one hand…
• He is a big fan of this club at Clarke Quay called Rupee Room. He should be standing outside the club entrance in the picture...."


Got a better detail Naruto's outfit from my son's comics, as he is also a Naruto's fan.

When caricature is not done in colour, usually I will have to add in more lineworks to spice up the artwork, as in this case.

Caricature for Novartis

Client's brief:-
"...Can you draw him juggling Singapore & Malaysia ? Need it by this Saturday. Thanks ! "


This could be one of the very low resolution and extremely underexposed photos I have received from my clients.
I can't see the shape of the eyes at all, as they are under the shades.
I asked for better photos, but the next photo I got was quite bad too.
I highlighted to the client that I can only try my best (based on imagination from what I can see), given that I can't even see his features clearly. It will definitely affect the outcome of the caricature.

Caricature theme - Popeye

Client's brief:-
"...Message :Happy Birthday

Background- Ship( Front Part) and Sea and Smily Sun Want him to look like Popeye Want it colored."


Colour sheme of the ship goes with the Popeye's colour scheme.:)

Client's response:-
"Cool!"

Caricature theme - beering

Client's brief:-
"..... A little about her, she lives in Oxford, London, her favourite colors are black and red. Our favourite activity together is to hang out and chat over a bottle of beer..."

Caricature for Malt Vault Singapore

Client's brief:-
"Jit, I need a basic A3 sized ink caricature done. The sketch should be of a patron of mine (see attached photo) sitting at a card table, playing poker. Also, if you could work my bar logo (also attached) into the background that'd be great.

Underneath the sketch I need the following text in this layout:

Congratulations!
Thiru V.S.
POKER in the VAULT Champion
6 October 2009"

Finally, I need the caricature mounted on heavy card stock.


Even though it is in black and white, I still need to add in some cross-hatching shading, as the subject's face in the photo provided, is more than 50% in the shade

Caricature for TOYS"R"US

Client's brief:-
"Hi Jit,
Apologize for the rush, as spoken kindy pls see attached our requirement. Hope you could help us up as the gifts are for our CEO from Hong Kong and items have to be ready by 4th Nov a day before his visit here. ...."


The client initialy wanted to order a 3D caricature figurine together with my 2D caricature drawing.
However, his notice was too short that a fully customised 3D figurine cannot be done and shipped over in1 week's time. Thus he has to drop the first idea, and proceed with this caricature alone.
The brief was to feature him as a rugby player, with Singapore landmarks like Merlion, Singaproe Flyer and Esplanade in the background. He wanted the TOYS"R"US logo on the T-shirt, and the TOYS"R"US textsomewhere in the drawing, which I put it on the rugby ball.

His response upon seeing this artwork:-
"Looks like him!"

Caricature for Lintec Singapore Pte Ltd

Client's brief:-
"Dear Jit,

First and foremost, not enough WOWs to be said for your works, KEEP IT UP! Really much passion has been put into it, we all can see. (Stumbled into your blog last year) I am Malaysian too so proud of my fellowmen from M’sia!

Story Background:
I have a senior manager (ex-GM) who is retiring this year. He will be 65 this month. Most prob working till Dec 09.

Thus I have started to put together a scrapbook album with some old photos and company related stuff, mostly will be staff pictures and our well wishes to remind him of us as he had been in our company for past 15 years .I hereby attach some pics of my scrapbook so you can suggest based on your vast knowledge what is best for me.

I would like to use your caricature of him, as my Cover Page. I saw some Montages (3-4 colored caricatures of the same person with different hobbies in one page). I am keen on that but my album with acid free embellishments and what not already costs abt $100 so I have a budget of preferably below S$100 or max S$150.

I wonder if my montage will cost S$90 x 4 if I list 4 poses? How do you charge for montage? I prefer with colour and background…Or due to budget constrain, will you suggest I just do ONE caricature w body and background? If so, are you comfortable with drawing him as Elvis, he really loves Elvis… then I will think of other details to put in.

My ideal idea is do in landscape style (A4 paper but leave border 1.5cm as I may need to trim before I paste on cover) below are his pet loves:-
1) Tennis
2) Tiger Beer Mug or Bottle (in hand or beside him)
3) Elvis Presley (he simply loves Elvis’ songs)
4) Glutton (he is a Makan King…)

Don’t worry about lead time, he should be leaving in Dec so I have at least 1mths upon confirming my order....

As discussed prior would like to confirm my order.

Story Background:
Mr Lee, Male, senior manager, 65yrs, (ex-GM) who is retiring end of this year.

I would like to use your caricature of him, as my Cover Page for scrapbook farewell album.

To draw in landscape style (A4 paper but draw SMALLER than 29cm x 19cm, inclusive of size of lamination card. Reason being it needs to be smaller than A4 size to fit onto Cover Page as Cover Page have spiral Wire-O. I can trim myself after lamination, but pls have paper cut smaller so lamination more accurate.)

Can you draw his other favorites ~ tennis, beer and food. Match with the words as attached sample in excel but please you have free hand the cartoons used only because I added using clipart.

On top:

RETIREMENT is… When You Stop Making A Living and Start Making A Life

Retirement Mission # 1 – Rock the (Jail) House Down
(Write above Caricature of him singing, dressed as Elvis Presley)

Mission # 2 – Tennis Every (other) Day
(Draw a Tennis Racquet and Tennis Ball with W (for Wilson) maybe leaning against a tree?)

Mission # 3 – Makan Sutra Hunt
(Preferably draw any local food - a chicken wing, chilli crab or else just a hamburger/steak and a glass of TIGER Beer)

Background : Either a tennis court or a garden/lawn to fit in the other hobbies "


Tight space, especially when the client needs to put in so many stuff.
I used the fountain pen + G-pen, without the brush this round, as it will be too thick on this smaller than A4 size paper.

Caricature theme -writer with fairy

Client's brief:-
"Dear Jit,

i called you this afternoon for a request for a portrait. for a friend's surprise birthday gift. A little background on him, he is a writer of fantasy novel, about globins, fairies , You can google him at www.tessontastree.com, click under author, there is a better picture of him.

He lives in Alaska.. in a place called wainwright, it is literally at the top of the world , with temperature of -20C, where eskimo's live.

I wondered if you could do a portrait of him sitting at the top of a freezing globe, with a purple fairy sitting on the left of shoulder. THe fairy that is used in his book is not very nice..could i use the image i send you.. but could you make it light haired fairy? the fairies wings have too be purple... thanks"


Very low resolution photo given.
That's the most headache part for me.
I can only try my best, in this case.

I like the execution of facial muscle here, especially the area near his left eye and cheek. HAve the 3D feel.:)

Indian man portrait in pencil

Lots of cross-hatching in this portrait.
I am playing with variation of strokes in this case - The bolder strokes are done using 8B pencil (for the hair and clothes), while the finer strokes (for the finer parts like featires and facial muscles) are done with 4B mechanical pencil.

Client's response upon seeing this portrait:-
"This is nice!"

Caricatures for Santoku BASF Pte Ltd

Client's brief:-
"1) A2/A3 size
2) In ink
3) One person full bodied
4) 13 person head only
5) With Text: THE PEOPLE BEHIND GREAT SUCCESS!"

Caricature live sketching for Nera Telecommunications Ltd Dinner & Dance 2009

An hour event at Grand Hyatt Hotel, Grand Ballroom.
I was requested by the event organiser Bronson, to put on white shirt and black pants (with suspender provided by them) , as the theme was Shanghai 1930s.


Kicked start with this photographer (from Nera Telecom) who was really keen to get his caricature sketched. Added in the camera upon his request.


The guests surrounding me, said I have drawn her too busty.:D




Think her eccense was quite well-captured in this caricature. DO you think so?



One of the guests said I have made her too "flat".


He was trying to make his eyes bigger, by removing his glasses.
But that was the usual size.:)


This caricature created quite a commotion among the guests, when I drew in his cleverage, and flexing his muscles. This gentleman was the one who made the statement of 'busty' and 'flat'.:D Thus, I gave him this body to spice up the event.


Job done!

Caricatures for Morgan Stanley - part 6

Last piece of this job.

Client's draft.


My draft.
Her feedback:-
"- let's shrink yavar's thought bubble so the focus is on the sign, and make the sign bigger
- please show saul from chin up only (no need body), from the lower left corner. so it looks as if he is peeping out from the corner. great expression! (he looks like that ALL the time.)
- let's draw a couple more balloons so the picture is more colourful

thank you! this is shaping up wonderfully!"

Didn't really take into considerations of the resemblance for all the drafts. In fact, I told her to ignore on the resemblance in the drafts, but seemed like the expressions in the drafts were well-received by her.


Pencil sketch.


Inked version.


Finally all done!!!

Received an email from the client:-
"Jit,

Just showed our big boss Kate, the head of Investment Banking in Asia Pacific, your drawings. BIG thumbs up, she liked them very, very much (keep in mind she can be a challenging one to please). She especially liked your drawings of George, Syed and Yavar.

Thank you for meeting our deadline without compromising in the slightest on your work quality.

Grateful,
Hui Ling"

What can be more rewarding than this?!:D
By the way, Kate was the Lara Croft in the second drawing.:)

Caricature live sketching for Rheen Manufacturing Company (Singapore) Pte Ltd - Appreciation Dinner

This event organiser Slyvester, was referred to me by Jason from Vision Event Management.

An hour event at Changi Ballroom, Holiday Inn Havelock (The former Glass Hotel)


Kicked start with this gentleman.


They all thought he wrote down his name for the registration of this appreciation dinner, as he wrote down his name on my queue list as soon as he stepped out of the lift. In fact, he wanted to get his caricature sketched too.


A very shy lady.


This lady quite shy too.



He said this caricature looked so much like him. He said it twice.
I think so too.:)


His eyebrow reminded me of the 白眉鹰王 in 倚天屠龙记.
It must be his trademark.


I think this caricature looks very much like him, especially the way he raised his eyebrows.


This was a fast and easy one.
Once I captured his eccense, the rest flowed in smoothly.


Because the previous caricature was done in about 3-4 minutes, I have time to sketch one more.
The guests surrounding me felt that this could be the best caricatures done this evening. Is it?:)

Caricature theme - wedding on grand piano

This job came in before the Morgan Stanley (MS) job.
Thus, I have to finished it on time, even though the MS job was not finished yet.

Client's brief:-
"we would like the two characters to sit on top of the piano holding hands facing the front. The bride will also hold a bouquet on the other hand. Hope this can be done.

Another thing is for the wording part. I think we will do some simplication. We just want the following chinese characters 共结莲李 and date of wedding 12月6日 at the bottom and at the top of the portrait will be our names as seen from attached (our names on top of portrait):李勇辉 陈秋莲 .

For these wordings at the bottom,

共结莲李
12月6日

1) Can we have the 5 musical lines on these wordings ? If it is not nice, can we have some musical notes around the characters if it is appriopriate ?
2) These wordings need not be too big which might "destroy" the drawing, just of appropriate size.
The 共结莲李 bigger than the date, 12月6日.....

Beneath the piano is the seawaters...."


After discussing with the client, the above brief was the revised version, as his initial brief was not really workable or won't turn out nice, in this hand-drawn caricatures. It would be possible if all these were done digitally. However, he can't provide high resolution of those logo and fonts he requested for.

Caricatures for Morgan Stanley - part 5

Client's draft.


My draft.
Her feedback:-
"- please draw more bags behind faridah, and remove the chanel handbag completely (you can place both arms on her hips instead)
- please remove "moan", just "groan" is fine" - i like the squiggle you drew on top of their heads! please include the speech bubble on top of all their heads "uh... briyani??"


Forgot to snap a shot of the pencil sketch. Here's the ink version.


Coloured version. Obviously, those shopping bags were the most time-consuming ones, besides teh cartoon characters.

Caricatures for Morgan Stanley - part 4

Initial draft by the client.


Her revised draft, after her boss saw her first draft.


My draft.
Her feedback:-
"- haha this is GREAT i love shahzad's pose, the sun... everyone's posture and expression is perfectly fitting (especially syed! he looks so spaced out haha)
- please place the individuals in a diagonal (not straight) line so it looks like they are climbing up a hill.
- please add a speech bubble for wanzul: "tolong.... it's ok, keep smiling!"
- possible to add a small set of animal bones in the lower right corner? can you make the palm tree on the left side look wilted, as if it is dying? it looks a bit like a holiday if the palm tree looks so healthy!"


Pencil sketch, adjusted according to her feedback.


Inked in.


Coloured up.
Then, I received a call from the client, saying that her Caucasian boss doesn't know about Muslim culture. It is not appropriate for Wanzul to carry Faridah, but to have them standing/walking instead
We don't have time to redraw everything.
Hence, I proposed to the client to draw two of them on another new pece of paper, scanned in and do some digital editing. Since the hardcopy is not very important to them. Eventually, the softcopies are what they need to use in their presentation, and printing them into a big poster.
It saved time on both parties, and eventually lower the amount of money they need to pay for this additional work.
She agreed

The new artwork.


And now, the old version of Wanzul carrying Faridah was removed from the original softcopy, and I pasted in the new version, paint in some of the background. Looked like an animation strip.:D

Caricatures for Herbalife

Client's brief:-
"We like to have the colour sketch A2 size Framed by latest this Saturday Noon time. As we are presenting this at our Seminar on Stage in the afternoon, we will pick up the portrait from you no later than this time."


Another urgent job.
2-3 days delivery, with framing, and A2 size.
No specific theme.
Since they are husband and wife, I have him carrying her in the caricature.

Caricature for Asia Pacific Brewery (APB)

Very urgent job! It came in this afternoon, and need to collect on Thursday morning, with it frame up! If I didn't finish part of the Morgan Stanley job ahead of my schedule, I wouldn't be able to take in this job.

This is a farewell gift for this guy who cycles to work everyday.
The client requested him to cycle and holding a ABC Stout in his hand, with the APB building in the background.

Feedback from the client via email:-
"Hi Jit
Thanks for rushing the caricature, my boss love it!"

Caricatures for Morgan Stanley - part 3

This draft was split and amended from the previous draft of the client.


My draft.

Her feedback:-
"- can we enlarge the claridges sign and pillar so amit takes more of a centre stage. OK to shrink the 3 ladies a little bit if necessary.
- please draw a few more shirts, and an arrow and text pointing to the shirts reading "shirts-in-hiding"
- the women have great expressions!"


Pencil sketch with inking....


Inked and brushed in.


Done!

Caricatures for Morgan Stanley - part 2

Client's draft.


She decided to split the first draft into 2 scenes.
This was the first scene.


My draft.

Her feedback:-
"- please make "WORK..." more prominent. perhaps larger font, bolder. same placement and size for all drawings please.
- great if we can make kate and amit more prominent in the picture. please draw kate full body (her outfit here: http://www.themovieness.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/lara_croft.jpg) to take up the same space as amit, and place both kate and amit directly beside george on a pedestal (small circular platform beneath the feet, like they are models) and place sooi lin / thomas by the sides. i really like sooi lin and thomas' poses!
- please show george pointing at kate, as if he is selecting kate (not amit).
- let's give amit a thought bubble: "boy, those gym sessions sure are paying off."
- let's be sure to draw a nice chair (perhaps make it dark red so it looks like velvet) and table (dark wood with some very minor trimmings if possible) / draw a carpet under the table so the settings match the chandelier. "


Pencil sketch. I like the 'Lara Croft' posture. Didn't know I can draw such sexy and stylo posture.:D


....in ink and brush.
€

Finished off with the rendering.

Caricatures for Morgan Stanley - part 1

This was a series of 6 caricature illustrations, used for the client's presentation, and later compiled them into a big poster. (This was the job which stressed me out, as soon as they confirmed the job. I have to squeeze in this order among my current scheduled workload)
The client requested these 6 hand-drawn hardcopies to be subsequently scanned in high resolution, upload to my server, for her to download in Hong Kong. Power of internet!

This was the sketch done by the client.


Revised sketch to the caption.


My draft.
Feedback from the client:-
"- excellent!! let's make george and wanzul just large heads (like gods), not much body necessary."


Pencil sketch for the actual artwork.


Inking in.....


Colouring done. The cartoon characters took me some time to ink and colour in.
Certain level of details is needed, as I think that I can't possibly draw in the round head without features as in the draft. Just too wishy-washy job for me. Not acceptable to me at all.
Looking at it upon completion, I think it is worth the time and effort. Looked colourful and crowded, and the subjects stand out amongst the crowd.

Caricature theme - wedding @ "Miss U Cafe"

Client's brief:-
"Hi Jit

I have previously engaged ur service and I luv ur work. My brother in
law is getting married and I would like to do a caricature of the
couple in bridal gown/suit as a gift....

Overall orientation similar to the one in picture A with changes as follow;
1. The background - Car
a. Change the design of the red car to the one similar to Picture B (Rounder...Cuter).
b. Hence car will be in beige colour but orientation of the car remain same as Picture A
c. Please remove the flower design on top of car in Picture B as circled and pointed in red. Replace with a teddy bear or leave it empty

2. The background – Add a restaurant
a. Add a restrt on the bottom right corner indicated in green as shown in Picture A. This is quite similar to the restaurant in picture C.
b. The restrt plays an important role for the couple that’s why i would like to squeeze it in. You can make the car smaller if more space is required for the restrt
c. The exact restrt picture is shown in picture D for your reference, however, i leave it to your artistic skill how you wanna draw the restrt
d. Please indicate the restrt name in the picture. This is very important!!! The name is “Miss U Cafe” as shown in Picture E

3. The background – Sky
a. The couple loves sunset so can i have a sunset background similar to Picture F

4. The Couple – Tie
a. I am ok with the couple’s suit and gown as per Picture A, but please change the bow to a white/light baby blue tie

5. The Couple – Flower
a. Please change the colour of the bouquet from red to yellow..more soothing

6. The Couple – Groom’s face
a. Please draw the groom based on his face and hair in Picture G. You may also use picture H for reference

7. The Couple – Bride’s face
a. This is basically a beautiful pair of couple...handsome groom and pretty bride. You can draw the bride using her face on Picture G, H, I, J for reference

8. The Couple – Bride’s hair
a. For the fringe, please draw based on Picture H or I
b. Since the groom is carrying the bride, please have the bride’s long hair flowing down nicely. Picture I is to give you a reference of the length of the bride’s hair
c. Please add a tiny little tiara on the brides head..please also add a veil flowing down nicely similar to the bride in Picture C
d. She is really pretty so please try your best to draw out her best features!! Don’t do injustice to her :P "


Can't remember which the previous job was.

This brief is very long. I have to study every detals carefully.
I like most of the stuff drawn, except for the sunset sky.
Can never blend it nicely using colour markers.:(
Even if I can, the overlapping strokes will still be too obvious to me.
But seems like my clients like the sunset sky.