Caricatures for Mastercard

This client always opted for the VIP package, as she wanted to see every progress, and made sure that I drew according to what she required. Of course, there was a price for this.
She was willing to pay. I will have to do it, though it was a lot more tedious than my usual procedure.


The brief:-
"Tan Sri Tan's portrait (top, left)

business suit
scuba diving mask on top of head
one hand holding handphone with ear piece in one ear
banner on top "MasterCard Asia/Pacific Regional Board of Directors Meeting"
one signpost showing Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing, Tokyo
icons of Aya Sofia (Istanbul), World Cup Soccer 2002, World Cup Soccer 2006, St. Petersburg (Russia)


Mr Heuer's portrait (top, right)

small banner on top "MasterCard Asia/Pacific Regional Board of Directors Meeting"
golfing gear (kaki trousers, polo shirt)
one hand holding glass of whisky with a leash attached to a cheetah sitting next to him
the cheetah is wearing a collar that says "Cape Town 2005"
another hand holding a stack of documents (heading "Business Case")
picture of Ayers Rock (Australia) in one corner
signpost showing distance between Purchase and Uluru (Ayers Rock) - 1,000,000 miles
a big wooden crate next to him with labels "Fragile - made in India"
a thought bubble "If Jeanie would only stop spending !!!""


For these sketches, I am more concerned on the overall layout, and not focus on the face features, as everything got to redraw on the final artwork. As usual, there will be minor amendments/adjustments here and there. Can't be avoided.


More or less confirmed here, and thought I was lucky this time.
I moved on to the detail pencil sketches, with colour schemes.


Not that lucky, and back to the pencil sketch, though the colour scheme was approved, with some minor changes.


Inked in, upon the approval of the pencil sketch.


Guess what?! Redo the inking here again, as the client's boss now decided to take out the banner at this stage.
I have to charged them additional for this, as this amendment was quite drastic, and I can't simply erase away the ink outlines. Moreover, they have approved the pencil sketch earlier on, before I proceeded to the inking. They agreed.


Finally done, after weeks of work (to and fro), as seen above.


Framing done , with inscription on metal plate. Can you tell how thick was this frame, based on the A3 size caricature? It was 8cm in thickness!!


I used this photo, but the client doesn't like it. Cheetah's eyes looked too fierce to her too.


Used another photo to draw, but his feature was a lot flatter in this photo.
She said the cheetah's eyes were too big and dark.


Another sketch. Most of the stuff passed, but she's worried about his resemblance.


Told her that I will leave the shading to do the remaining work, as too many lines on the face won't look good with the colours, when they were added onto the drawing.


Banner on top of his head was gone. Same reason as mentioned above.
These 2 artworks were scanned in at high resolution, and emailed over to her.
She has them printed out on her side, and brought them along with her on her trip to Scotland, to present to them. She told me that it could be hard for her to print them out in A3 size in Scotland, as she was afraid that the hotel which she will be staying, may not have such services.


Framed up, and job was finally done.
My conclusion - not easy money, and that's why the price was quoted high.