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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Caricature live sketching for Parkway Health CNY Party 2010

An hour event at Shangri-la Hotel, at Terrace Garden.
Initial booking was 6:30pm- 7:30pm, but was pushed back to 7pm - 8pm.
Whne I reached, I was told to start earlier, at 6:50pm.
Better too, since it was outdoor, and it doesn't seem that I will have a good lighting for drawing later when it gets dark.
Caricature live sketching for Parkway Health - 1
Caricature live sketching for Parkway Health - 2
His friends said that he looks like Obama. Do you think so?:)

Caricature live sketching for Parkway Health - 3
I thought she was quite serious when she sat down. No smile. Thus, I didn't request for her smile.If I knew she can smile so sweet, I would have drawn her smiling. Wasted! The smiling caricature always looked more appealing.

Caricature live sketching for Parkway Health - 4
Getting dim. True enough, no good lighting. The bright lighting in this photo was from my cmera flash.
Quite rare to draw both guys together. Must be very good buddies.

Caricature live sketching for Parkway Health - 5
I was literally drawing in very bad lighting for this caricature. It really will affect the drawing, which the clients most of the time will neglect. They were more concern about the atmosphere of the event. Our job was to draw the guests. However, as an artist, my concern was more on the quality, than just quantity. Not just simply draw a face and job done.
Anyway, thank goodness this couple likes their caricatures.

Caricature live sketching for Parkway Health - 8
Met William Lee again in this event. This time he was doing pebble caligraphy.
The gentleman standing was Uncle Bob, the magician.
He told me that it was rare that I use Brush to draw caricature.
He has a caricaturist friend in Hong Kong also uses brush to draw caricature.
Brush gives me the thin/thickness I want to express my stroke.
It gives more life to the drawing, as compared to marker or pen, which can only draw uniform line thickness.

Caricature live sketching for Parkway Health - 7
Caricature live sketching for Parkway Health - 6
The event organiser who draws portraits. Woo... quite rare.:)

pebble caligraphy by William Lee
William wrote my name on the pebble. Thank you.:)

1 comment:

Pete Wagner said...

I appreciate your approach to caricature. I like the emphasis on LINE rather than shading, which so many young American artists rely on to cover up very weak underlying drawings. "Pearls on swine" shading is a way to make the drawing appear more impressive even though there is a very weak likeness and little or no humor. I have written about this at my blogs, which I invite you and your visitors to also take a look at. http://wag-caricatures.blogspot.com/ and http://kartoons.wordpress.com/

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