Zombie Caricature

on 5 x 7 inch cardstock paper

Last year, I was invited to work some kind of "Zombie Walk" festival as a caricature artist.  I practiced a lot to see how long it would take me to draw a reasonably fast, yet reasonably good, likeness of zombified customers.  It seems it would take between 5 and 10 minutes, fyi.

Due to forces beyond my control, I didn't even get to attend the event.  But I am now practiced and ready for any future possibilities!

I have been sketching people faces lately, getting in practice for just knowing how to draw faces, and human heads, I suppose.  This basically gives me an excuse to stare at pictures of people I think look interesting and then casually and quickly make drawings based on them.  This is kind of Aldous Huxley.

Baby's First Portrait

Here we witness one of my very earliest works. Created when I was around two years old, possibly even younger, we can see that I chose the Path of the Artistic at a fairly young age. Please note the human's proportions. Mostly all head and face, this seems to be a fine representation of how a small tiny child would identify people, being held all the time and whatnot. The feet and legs are very indistinct because they were always waaaay down there. Also, being held by arms apparently does not involve being AWARE of arms.

My mom always said that I drew this after visiting with my grandfather, so she assumes he was the subject of this artwork. And artwork it is, indeed! Look, I even signed it! (not my mom's handwriting in red marker, but the blue squiggle mark off to the side. That was meant to be my very own signature).

And yes. The canvas is actually a clean diaper that I had taken from the box.

1865

Not very long ago, I realized I needed to quickly create a picture for my friend's publication, so I decided to use the occasion as a sort of multi-purpose opportunity. I decided that while fulfilling my obligation to draw anything I wanted, I could also practice drawing a human being, which I don't do often enough, and ALSO I could stare at a picture of young Buffalo Bill Cody all at the same time! He is only nineteen or so here and only dreamed of some day having ridiculous facial hair and a spectacular wild west show!