Caricature for AustCham Singapore

Client's brief:-

"Hi Jit

AustCham is looking at having a caricature for one of our Board Member.
The idea we want is for the gentleman to sit on the front tip of the A380 flying out of Singapore.

The photos of A380 is attached and I think we prefer the plane to fly the opposite direction ie towards Australia.

On the left of the picture is island of Singapore with merlion. The background should be blue sky with the sun rays without the clouds.

From the end of the plane probably some trails of smoke and then form smoked words “I still call Australia Home”


Looked rather empty without the cloud in the background.
One concern here was the subject's broader neck (more like double chins) in the photo provided by the client.
I 'squeezed' it down to make it join better to the shoulder/body.
In the end, the feedback from the client was that the subject's face looked elongated, instead of squarish.
However, if I extend the neck line down as in the photo, the neck will 'reach' the subject's elbow area in the caricature. I think this will look very wierd. The previous job for them has no such issue, as that subject's jawline was distinct.
Lesson learnt - Do not to choose such photo (no distinct jawline) for the caricature next time.
We, the artists, can visualise the awkward part, but not the layman like the clients.

Caricature for AustCham, Singaproe

Client's brief:-
"Scott standing with Singapore skyline behind in the background, but very distant ie merlion; then closer but still behind him a row of double story shophouse looking bars/pubs, ie boat quay or similar…imagine him standing across the river from boat quay on the Indochine side with boat quay behind him…have Maybank tower at the left hand corner as that is where he worked for the past five years.


The bars/pubs would then have signs hanging in the front naming the pub, not all of them, say 5 - 7, list below. The idea is a row of pubs but know that they don’t look like that in actual fact however it reflects the favourite places that scott likes to drink. I tried to attached some photos of the front of each of the pubs so that you could draw them a little more like they are?"

Caricature for AustCham

Client's brief:-
"Purpose of the caricature is a thank you present for our outgoing President.
I feel that it could have him with mouth open making a speech as he did during his time as president.
As long as it depicts him candidly making a statement this will be fine.
Dressed in a suit and red tie will be good."


Pretty straightforward job. Just that this caricature is A2 size, larger than the A3 size, which I usually worked on .

Feedback from the client:-
"Hi Jit

I imagine that Annette has already sent you a message, but I have to say that the print is excellent and everyone, including the recipient absolutely loved it!!!!

Brilliant work.

Nigel"