Fun in Dubuque

Bollywood's Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai is an Indian film actress and model famous for films of Bollywood She is a leading contemporary actress of Indian cinema and is often cited in the media as the "most beautiful woman in the world".

Collection of Sketches from Past Gift Caricatures

A collection of sketches used for recent gift caricatures with a musical theme.  Gift caricatures always make a great gift.  Select the Gift Caricature tab above and orders yours today.

Enjoying the Good Life

Latest retirement gift caricature.  These make great gifts for your family and friends.  Order one now!

Gift Caricature of the Week

My latest gift caricature evolved from the original sketch, and after receiving customer feedback, I provided the revised sketch.  This resulted with the final piece.  Don't ask me why he is wearing a grass skirt??

Revised Sketch

Original Sketch

Rich and Dave

Recent commission for two Dentists

New Blog

Last week I told you about Slices, a new graphic novel I started.  To get a peak at whats going on, I have started a new blog about Slices.  An introduction of some of the characters in the Slices universe.  See it here:  http://slicesgraphicnovel.blogspot.com

Coming Soon

I'm working on a new mini-graphic novel.  Genre is sci-fi horror.  The title is "Slices" - as in slices of time.  This is the banner for the new blog I'll be starting soon sharing all of the goodies about the graphic novel.  Hopefully, I'll get a publisher.

Newest Shoe-Ca-Ture

I have a client who asks me to create drawings for each of their employees, which is a pretty neat idea.

Here is a clip of their website and my latest shoe-ca-ture and their link:

http://www.domaintools.com/about/

And here is my latest Shoe-Ca-Ture

ATTACK OF THE ZOMBIES!

Help, I'm drawing Zombies !@?#@%!!

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Annual Cedar Rapids Chili Cookoff 2013

Hot food for cold hands!  

Copier Man

My Iphone has an app where I can take a picture (over wifi) of whatever is on my LG T.V.  This was a CBS Sunday Morning news piece on a War World II veteran working in an office who is telling his war stories to an eager younger writer.  So I took a snapshot of him and made a sketch.

Look and Feel

Photoshop offers many methods to color in inked drawings.  In most of my work, I use different layers for the line, color, highlights, and shadows.  Here I try to experiment with different methods to see how they look and feel.  In the 1st example (top left) I use 2 layers, layer 1: normal color with a 50% opaque brush, and layer 2: black line .  The 2nd example, I use 4 layers, layer 1:one tone of gray, layer 2: one tone of color (using photoshops color layer mode), layer 3: normal color with a "pencil" brush, and layer 4: black line.  Example 3:  The 1st layer is many tones of gray followed by a 2nd layer of gray highlights and shadows, layer 3: flat color with photoshops color layer mode, and layer 4: black line.  With example 4, I used the same base of grays for layer 1 and 2 used in example 3. Then followed by "pencil" brush color with photoshops color layer mode, and layer 4: black line.  The last example I used reversed colors for a "solarized" look and finally the original sketch.

Pumping out Drawings Last Week at the Mariott

An Insane Amount of Work

I'm toying with the idea of jumping into an insane amount of work - with no guarantee of making any money - a graphic novel.  Yes, I know it is a "me too" idea, but I like the idea of telling stories as opposed to just trying to make a single piece of artwork or illustration.  Im not sure if this is going to be something really good or a colossal waste of time.  Here is a snapshot of some of the panels.  Hint - yes it has zombies in it, what respectable graphic novel is without Zombies?

Live Drawing Fun

From the Reject Department

Sometimes caricature artists instincts for what is funny need to be slimmed down before a client will accept the work.  After my second try she said "Thank You So much, Chris! I am absolutely thrilled with the drawing and so excited to give it to him! I really appreciate your patience with me and can’t thank you enough!!!"

Yours Truly from the Mad Art of Caricature

Tom Richmond, of Mad Magazine fame, was offering personalized caricatures in his book, "The Mad Art of Caricature".  Here I am in all my glory!

People at the Denver International Airport

Christmas Gift Caricature

Merry Christmas Everyone

Starbuck Sketch: Sizing each other up

Man Waiting for a Plane

I like to draw people at airports, if I see something that catches my eye, I'll take a photo with my iphone and later sketch them on my Wacom.

New Gift Caricature

She plays ping pong and rolls dough all at the same time!

Starbucks Man

Sometimes I see people and I just want to draw them when I'm sitting in a Starbucks.