TURKEy day toons!

These were real fun kids-said they love the crazier stuff.
The one kid was much bigger than the other 2 so I tought it'd be funny to have his toikey a bit strained.
They also joked about nose picking & boogies so.....green finger!

more TOI-kees!

Turkey day toons!

Fun gig on Toikeyday-drawing toikey racing cute kids!

More Live Stuff!

I'm soooo far behind on posting live stuff.
Before I get to the holiday ones, thought I'd put some fave pix from some fave gigs.

RUDE DOGZ- my NEW site!

New site with my Flash animation samples!.... More to come...
Yola gives you plenty of space for FREE! I haven't used 1/4 of it yet!
It blows Go Diddly AWAY! er...ah, GoDaddy, which just plain BLOWS!....
Check it out!
http://rudedogz.yolasite.com/

New Political Cartoon for www.newchoicecanada.com

This is the latest cartoon I did for www.newchoicecanada.com
Not sure if it's posted there yet but I always dig working with Murray! He's got some great & vivid ideas and lets me go a LOT further than most other clients!
He wanted BIG smiles on all of them-I thought it would be funny and more effective to put some messages in the smiles. (see detail)
It was kinda challenging to have the shadows convey the secret identities with so many figures. Beheadings, rape, druglords and suicide bombers were all specified by client.

Though these illustrations are all created for New Choice Canada, it's funny (and SAD) how all of them can pertain just as strongly to the US.

ISCA PIX-CONT'D

More pix.
Another agent, Mike Edwards. Mike is always fun to draw-the snott bubbles with money signs are complete conjecture...(the money signs are anyway)... seems I really hit the people that pay me pretty hard this year, but they know it's all good (not-so-clean) FUN! Robert Bauer is president of ISCA...he is NOT a nazi and he gets a Christmas tree..HE'S ALSO an agent but he hasn't given me any work lately...I shudda hit HIM a lot HARDER!

ISCA PIX-CONT'D 2-Y'Always hurt from laughin...

ME, Mikey & Trudy..
Crrazzy 2 handed Mikey Shields is probably one of the funniest guys I've ever met in my life...DANGERously so! Sometimes I feeel like I ruptured myself laughing when around him-and his CARGO game is a HOWL!
He has a song called "Moose Poop"...and he lika da ganja!

ISCA PIX-CONT'D 2-Y'Always hurt da one y' LOVE..

There is a really funny story behind this pic.
About Faces' Mike Hasson and the-Nose's Tad Barney, 2 great agencies that get me great gigs.
Mike's got a head like a fire hydrant and Tad looks like an albino hairless chihuahua-Love these guys!...
but not as much as Tammi...

ISCA PIX-CONT'D

SOME of my wall...

ANOTHER CON bites the dust!

Back from the ISCA!
The International Society of Caricature Artists-A mammoth gathering of artistic giants, an avalanche of talent from around the world, an incredible experience every year, time to catch up with friends and colleagues old and new, and chance to meet some of the coolest people in the world who do some of the coolest artwork in the world. This year the guests were MAD magazine's Hermann Mejia, Sam Viviano, Mark Frederickson & Tom Richmond. Here's some of the few pix that didn't somehow get lost or deleted in the melee of file reorganizing....sorry bout the blurry ones.

Here's my studio piece-I LOVE this show...but 5 of 10 people I asked replied: "Cool...but what is "Curb your enthusiasm?" Next year I think I'll pick a better known subject-like the bass player from Flock of Seagulls or Kajagoogoo's hair dresser.

Tech-a-nick-nick-el DIFF-i-cult-ees!

Seems the iphone game I was working on will be delayed a bit and probably not ready by Halloween.
The design flaws slowed the playing down a bit and I had to do some revisions on the bgs and add a new one.
Their site is mostly under construction but there are some pretty cool things on there already-CHECK it OUT!
http://musclecrowstudios.com/concepts.html
Meantime here is the garden bg and some knocked down elder characters-probably my last post til after the ALWAYS AWESOME CARICATURE CON!
CHECK it: http://www.caricature.org/index.php?page=convention-upcoming

Character designs for iphone app

Each character had to be done in front back and side view. Funny story on the needle nurse-the rear view is supposed to be her sccrubs bbut the client thought it was her bare ass!...so I had to change the color otherwise apple could slap a 17+ rating on the game! Crazy world where a cartoon ass is monitored closer than all them porn pop-ups...

MORE SCREENSHOTS FROM IPHONE APP

MORE SCREENSHOTS FROM IPHONE APP. Characters created in Flash for animation on iphone.
"Nursing Home Defense" Video game app from Muscle Crowe Studios set to be available for download Oct 19th!

Old Fogeys, Zombies, & the iphone!

Coming to an iphone near you in time for Halloween...!
I am just finishing up the final work for an iphone ap about zombies in a nursing home.
Titled: Nursing Home Defense

This was probably one of the most enjoyable and challenging character design projects I ever had.
The characters had to be viewed from a 3/4 overhead viewpoint to gel with the bg.
I had LOTS of artistic freedom(ALLWAYS a big plus) and Brian is a great guy to work with!
All the character designs had to be done in FLASH- the bg are done in Photoshop.
I feel I learned a LOT and have a lot more to learn about it, but I'm really digging this project and hope to do more!
Now I gotta but an iphone.

Here's some of the playaz and a shot of what the game screen should look like for one of the levels:

2nd Cartoon for New Choice Canada.

This is the 2nd cartoon I was commissioned for by New Choice Canada.
It's more of a clarification of the GST character from the 1st toon.
Unlike the 1st one, I came up with all the wording/ text for this one myself.
The GST & the IRS must be identical twins.

The Winds of Change may blow around you...Cartoon for New Choice Canada

I'm so pleased to have been contacted by Murray from New Choice Canada. He loves my cartoon illustration work and approached me with this opportunity....He is starting a new political party. A new beginning. He's got a lot of great ideas and I wish him all the best.
And I will be doing some editorial illustrations for him.

This is the 1st cartoon I was commissioned for by New Choice Canada check it out:
http://www.newchoicecanada.com/?page_id=3
He was VERY specific about the details, wording etc, but he also let me go hogwild with the characters and cartooning, which I love! I used plasq's awesome Comic Life Deluxe for wording balloons and "Swine" Pish posh" lettering.
I wasn't sure what the topics would be for Canada's politics but apparently the political climate is very similar to that of the U.S. I guess their GST is our IRS.

Eagles Vick cartoon-finished!

Just finished up this piece. Feel free to share.
(Click on pic for larger view)
Pretty much sums up how this Eagle's fan feels right now...cept my lawn never looked that nice.
Anyone else feel the same?

Michael Vick

This is a little piece of a cartoon I'm working on about the Eagles and the dog killer.

FLASH toons for kids interactive books

Just finished up a REALLY FUN project.
Client gave me virtually complete artistic freedom (within reason) and LOVED my finished work!
These are all done in Flash so maybe I can anim8 later.
Looking forward to more like this.
Thanks Kris!

..or Get Off the POT!

I have sooo many drawings, sketches and toons that are just sitting there and I think they could make great tee-shirt, mousepad, coffee mug, etc. designs and I think now is the time to look into zazzle and cafe press.
I'm also going to look into self publishing my comic soon. All this takes time away from drawing but I am trying to discipline myself with a better balance of drawing AND marketing what I draw.

Bass Ale gigs Cont'd

This gig at Houlihans in Secaucus NJ was on one of the stormiest nights ever.
Strange request from a customer to draw some crazy stuff with the barmaid-he bought a Bass (and me one as well) so I happilly obliged. She never sat to get drawn so I drew her from afar and she kinda looked like she had a "surprised" look on her face ...I saw this other employee running around so I thought it COULD BE FUNNY TO THROW HIM IN HER BEER-that would work with the expression. He was a great subject w/ dreadlocks- the predator guy kinda tied the whole "strange" theme together.... I also drew the bald guy w/ glasses from across the bar, when he came over to shake my hand and thank me, I was pretty happy w/ the accuracy I got except his chin was square, not round.

Bass Ale gigs Cont'd

Looking forward to more of these...

Bass Ale gigs Cont'd

Some really cool people at this bar Jimmy Geez-and relaxed enough crowd size where I could work on the coloring a bit.

Bass Ale gigs

I have been doing a couple gigs thru the-Nose.com for Bass Ale. Lotsa fun at these gigs-some bIgger crowds than others-and some sitters younger than others-but always a fun time!

Go IGGLES!!

This top guy was laughing at me laughing at him-he said I looked like I might pee myself while I was drawing him-so I capitalized on the idea....He LOVED it!

Go IGGLES!!

These are some pix from the Eagles ticket holder party I did with fellow Toonsters Angie, Joe, and crazy lunatic Johnny Sprague .This was one of those gigs where you get geared up for a giant non-stop crowd-B&W heads only-no frills semi-speed competition drawings,..... and then you find out the crowds aren't there. This can bring a real feeling of relief, and now you have time to create more elaborate work tailored to the lucky few who are there.
It's always great when you get someone like this 1st guy who requests to be ripping off a (Dallas) Cowboys head and this sets the stage for the rest of the sitters. I worked some Phillies games before and had a good time, but Football is inherently a funner sport for caricature with the blood, mud, and dirt an integral element of the game.

I will Follow....

I just noticed the "followers" tab option. Makes so much sense, So if you want to keep track of the sporadic postings of this blog-please click on "follow" and I will try to post more regularly. Thanks!
In meantime-here's my dog Jackson skateboarding..... just because....

Bank job Caricatures cont'd

I like how the one girl's hair was tied so tight it made her head look like an overstuffed Glad bag (to me..)

Bank job Caricatures

Here's some from a gig for PNC bank employees with crazy lunatic Johnny Sprague! Lottza FUN!

MORe Live Stuff...Picnics, BBQs, etc. CONT'D

I THOUGHT IT was Funny watching the cute little kid tryna climb up her Dad's beer belly so I tried to capture the moment....

MOre Live Stuff...Picnics, BBQs, etc. CONT'D

More Live Stuff...Picnics, BBQs, etc.

Here are some faves from latest couple of gigs. Didn't get as many pix as I'd like (well... not counting the blurry ones) since these were pretty high intensity gigs with no time between sitters.
This was a fun gig with fellow Toonies Mike & Joyce Edwards and crazy lunatic Johnny Sprague.

George Carlin-REVISED

It was brought to my attention, George wears black 99% of the time-Thanks Ang!

GIFT CARICATURE- SCUBA DIVER

I 've been doing gift carics over 20 years now, and I think this is my all-time favorite! (non-digital, maybe even digital, too..l)
I LOVE No-Mercy requests, and he gots a great face.
I spent over half hr on the beard & chin alone!

George Carlin

Loved his stuff-I know I'm late w/ my tribute but here it is..

GROUP CARICATURE FOR 91st BDay

This is the 2nd time I was hired through About Faces (link on left) to do an on-site Group piece for Bill G.
When doing groups I prefer to see how the people relate to eachother in size/ shape dynamics.
I think it adds a lot to it and makes it a funnier cartoon.
It's always a fun challenge to do these in the 2 hr time slot while the people come in to get drawn one by one and there is ALWAYS someone who doesn't come in til the last minute and then you have to squeeze them in somehow...Last year there were 3 really big guys and the last guy comes in-he was twice the size of the others!
This time it was the skinny guy on the far right, he was @ 1 hr 57 minutes late-so I drew his watch broken. They kept me another hr to finish it up and gave me lunch with a Heineken to boot! It's all good!

There was a golf tournament going on, so everyone was eager to hit the greens-so I didn't get any pix of the victims.

The middle guy w/ glasses is 91 yrs old and you can't tell from this caricature, but he looks GREAT for his age.
Bill's the big guy top left.

Bill and his crew have great sense of humor and love to laugh so I pull no punches...This was alot of fun at 10 am!

3 Gift CARICATURES for obgyn doctors!

These are done in Flash-(my favorite new program!)
They're all obgyn docs so I put the different babies in there. The themes were "Happy Feet", "Yosemite Sam" and "Tony Soprano"-my favorite is baby Soprano-could be Silvio or Paulie....
These were a LOT of fun and a LOT of work-and he paid UpFront and he LOved them so it was ALLL GOOD!
LOVE to get more clients like this do more of these!
Thanks Owen & Deb!

new Brunswick HS Project -cont'd-VIDEO

New Brunswick HS Project -cont'd

Ahh..the group shots..this girl said her arm was burnt-so I put it on fire....the other said I'd probably draw her talking-cuz she never shuts up!...ok

New Brunswick HS Project -cont'd

More ...you can tell it's near 2-3 am now...

new Brunswick HS Project -cont'd-VIDEO

He LOves his caricature!

New Brunswick HS Project -cont'd

MILESTONE ALERT!
This is the largest I ever drew a zit at a live gig!............ (applause subsides....)

This guy came up to me and asked me to give him the works! He says "I don't know how you could possibly make it any more brutal than the one he did!" pointing to Wacky Lunatic Johnny Sprague, who was assaulting people's faces like he was MJ's plastic surgeon (AWW-I didn't want to go there....). I said I'll do my best... to do my worst..!
I noticed he had 2 itty bitty pinpoint zits on each side of his face (the camera didn't even pick them up..) so I EXAGGERATED them..that's what Caricaturists do...ExAG-jur-ATE! He loved it!

New BrunswiCK HS Project -cont'd

NEW BRUNSWICK HS Project Grads

June was a crazy busy time with 10pm-3am gigs... sometimes running into 12pm-3pm and later, grad parties.
This was one of my favorite gigs ever-drawing alongside Angie Jordan, Emily Anthony, and Nutcase Johnny Sprague!
Along with a couple other artists...
The NB gigs are always a BLAST-These kids always have the BEST sense of humor and pretty thick skins (even the girls ask to get nutty drawings)
Sometimes, the drawings get even crazier than normal-with the encouragement of the kids-
and that is just how I LIKE IT!-Thanks to all who made it happen!
Here's some of my faves...

more pix from vid

PIX from video

These are bettter quality pix from the video...

New Video Live Party Samples! BIG LAUGHS!

I've been trying to blog more effectively and came across theses clips.
This 1st lady is no doubt-thee NUMBER ONE BIGGEST LAUGH I have had in 20 some years doing this!
There were a lot of close-2nds, but the decibels and duration of this lady's enjoyment stand out from all the rest!
She loved her caricature! I laugh at this everytime I see it! Hope you do too!

FUNATICO

Check out this site:
The first I heard of it was on Steve Silver's blog
Steve is an awesome character designer and very cool guy.
A few days later I got an email from Ivan at Funatico.com-a cool new site with lotsa fun stuff, pix, games, etc.
He said he was impressed with my work and would like to feature it!
It's great that he is also interested in my Flash toons for future posting.
It's also awesome that he posts the pix at a pretty large size so you don't have to strain your eyes.
Thanks Ivan!

Funatico is one of the most popular entertainment sites on the web with huge collection of funny videos that will make you lol. If you want to have fun and you have some free time at home or school you can play something from Funatico flash games archive. Don't forget to check out their cool gallery of funny pictures too.

THE BLACK URBAN TIMES-FIFTY CENT

This is my 2nd editorial cartoon for The Black Urban Times.
50 cent & Rick Ross (the rapper, not the redhead painter guy on channel 12 with fluffy clouds...oh that's BOB Ross, nevermind...)
Check out www.theblackurbantimes.com!

Charles Barkley's golf swing

Funny as hell-
Check it out:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=charles%20barkley%20golf&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv#

but he's still probably better than me...

Flash toons

Heff & Hogan...
2 classic lecherers....God Bless them.
Marty Feldman's calendar & James Bonds hand.

Flash toons

More Flash toons-really digging this program now!
Just wish I could show the animated ones....

Chris Brown, Rhianna, Jay Z

Chris Brown & Rhianna.
My First editorial cartoon for theblackurbantimes.com

Lotta fun with this!

Ozzy's Dog-Bone Crazy

More Flash fun!
My first ANIMATED piece.
Hope it shows on blogger....