Isabella Adjani

My entree for the Facebook Traditional Caricature Art Contest  

Quickdraw Video

Video sample of caricature drawn digitally (sped up a little) with some cheesy Garage Band music effects!

Live Mashup

A number of my live drawings collaged into a massive mashup.  Need a caricature artist for your next event - Call Chris Berg 319-538-4023

Trade Show Caricatures

Nothing much new this week.  These are some I did last summer but never posted before.

People Sketches

Latest Caricature

Boston Bruins Anyone?

Some Black n' Whites

Two recent commissions, the top one is for a T-Shirt and the bottom are a wedding couple!

Beer Labels for a Wedding?

What a great idea.  This couple wanted a caricature for their home brew beer labels.  Each guest will receive a beer with this great personalized bottle label.

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