Man, I saw that Brian Soria had announced last year that 2022 would be the last of his Drawlloween daily drawing challenge that I have taken part in since 2015 (due, he said, to the uphill battle to get past social media algorithms that keep unpaid, unboosted content from being […]
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Our local ABC affiliate, WLOS-TV commissioned me to draw a caricature collage for departing, long-time morning anchor, Jay Siltzer as a retirement gift. The collage featured him with various on-air co-anchors, as well as his mother, with whom he appeared in many cooking segments for the show. Here is a […]
Here are the final 31 caricatures of the daily drawing challenge for the month of January, featuring actors who portrayed real life people in movies and those real life people. Thanks for following along (who am I kidding? Nobody reads these things!!) and I hope to be able to keep […]
Another seven days and another recap of the caricatures I drew: I’ll post the final three in a wrap-up post of the whole month.
For the I-don’t-even-remembereth time in a row, I will participate as a caricature artist in the month-long challenge for caricature artists called, Caricature Resolution. The first week of it has come to a close, and here are my attempts at the first seven subjects chosen by the challenge administrators (the […]
Drawlloween for 2022 has ended. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to participate in the October drawing challenge this year, due to the recent loss of my wife of nearly 37 years. Making funny drawings about death seemed rather callous at this time of grieving her loss. However, […]
Another cover story I was asked to illustrate for the local Alt-Weekly Asheville paper, The Mountain Xpress, was this one about an upcoming vote on local bonds that would be used to fund greenways and preserve open space, as well as for affordable housing. I was given some ideas they […]
MAD magazine, and Rankin Bass legendary artist Paul Coker passed away recently. MAD writer, Desmond Devlin spoke about him in an online update, better than I could, so I will repost his words here: by Desmond Devlin “PAUL COKER, JR, 1929-2022 When I started at MAD, the first four artists […]
The local alt-weekly paper, The Mountain Xpress, in Asheville has once again seen fit to commission my art for one of their cover stories. This one seeks to illustrate the concepts in the article regarding the efforts of those both outside the area and inside, mostly non-profits, trying to provide […]
For me, drawing caricatures at a birthday party is not a new thing, but this particular gig I was hired to do proved to be a new experience. I was tasked with drawing all the party guests (or at least as many as could fit) in the same caricature with […]