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When you get to the website,
click on the word "Video" in the rectangle near the top of the page.
Then do
Control F(ind),
type in the word Caricature,
and you can see it.

He has a way of making me feel good about what I do.
While being acknowledged for the Flattering Caricatures he draws,
he mentioned Kruger's Wild Caricatures.
Mine are somewhere in the middle - between Bippy's and Kruger's.
By seeing those 2 successful extremes juxtaposed with each other,
it's clear that there isn't only one 'right way' to do this.

And here's some pictures that I drew of the Artist Bippy:

They also brought in a band from Kentucky - The Rumble Club.
I'm trying to make sense out of the picture I drew of the Rumble Club.
Rough or Clean - I can't decide which is the better picture.

First, here's the rough drawing that I drew standing in the very dark bar.
Not only were my subjects turning and bending and changing their expressions on the high stage,
but the biggest obstacle to really seeing them was
the apparatus in front of them - things like the curly part of the upright base and the microphone:

So I came home and cleaned it up a bit. Outlines and colors:

Then I went to their website. Having seen them in person,
I was able to make sense out of the pictures
they had posted there. And I made this cleaner picture
in the quiet of my well-lit studio:

But I got wrapped up in
wrapping the glasses around the head.
I guess I forgot to focus on what I was studying.

So I drew this man again:

Then I drew another man. His face was so round.
I thought that it was impossible to angular the lines for him.
But I discovered that advice need be taken with a grain of salt.
When I neeeeeded a curve, I drew a rounded line. But
there were plenty of times that I had choice. And by applying
the angular-lines-for-male principle, I happily maintained the guy's
maleness - which might have been a problem otherwise:

I like this! So I thought 'angular!' again.
Drew another man. This is good stuff.
My regular pictures with the addition of a new awareness about drawings.
I used to prefer to draw women, but now I think I grew up.

Okay. Yicchus.
And here's today's picture.
I drew it while preparing for this weekend's gigs.
Last night I drew at a 50-year-old's Party
at Chateau Briand.
And tonight it's a 1-year-old's Party in Coney Island.

To Hire this Artist for Your Event:
(516)579-4706
visualdust@gmail.com

An artist from Rochester, Bippy Boyer, recently helped me to draw a complicated hat.
He simplified it into 3 strokes. Voila! I'm happy. When you know the answers, it's no more struggle:

So tonight I tested it out. I drew the following hats that I found by surfing the web:

Success. Another skill under my belt. Thank You, Bippy.