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#219 caricatures and video

Caricature Variety
sketch dump of live drawings from the last month or so from a wide variety of events and venues

big dame

Artist spotlight: Damion Dunn

http://damion009.blogspot.com/

I don't ever do this but you gotta go check out this guys blog...his name is Damion Dunn and he is a monster...his work is crazy, crazy good. I worked with him last spring in L.a. and it doesn't look like he ever stopped drawing. wow.... crazy good stuff... be sure to look at the older posts and the archives

http://damion009.blogspot.com/

live caricature videos

in this video you can hear me mindlessly gabbing and chuckling at a typical heckler/funny guy type (these are QUITE common)...I concentrate on the drawing as much as possible and my mouth just stays pleasant and humors him until hopefully he goes away



the lighting on this vid is really crappy...it was a dimly lit event



oh and for the record I had NOTHING to do with the music selection :)

Black and white commision

this is a commission piece for some friends from St. Petersburg

On the road...
just made it back to Atlanta after 2 weeks of working on the road.....I made a loop from Atlanta to Cincinnati to St.Louis, To Centralia, Mo. to Kansas city and back to Atlanta...here are some videos and pics from my trip




the Smoky Mountains


my favorite part of driving from Atlanta to Cincy is the Smokies

Cincinnati, OH



this is Taste of Cincinnati, about 500,00 drunks descend upon downtown Cincinnati every memorial day weekend to eat food drink beers and use portajohns

(this is a picture of two-handed mikey drawing Old School Rapper Big daddy Kane, whats funny is Mr. Kane had a woman with him that said his name at the beginning and end of all of her sentences...."Big Daddy Kane, can I go get a beer , Big daddy Kane?" and so on)



St.Louis, Mo.

my buddy Logan sporting his wedding tat...he surprised his newlywed wife on their wedding day with a tattoo of a hammerhead shark eating a womans arm off......what a lucky lady


Centralia, Mo.

this is the carnival ride of the future......





these are the people of Centralia Missouri's Anchor festival.... a festival named not for boat anchors but instead named for the metal anchors that hold telephone poles in place


Kansas City, Mo.

statue of Charlie parker in the 18th and vine district





you can check out more photos from this roadtrip by going to my facebook album

Logan and Jen get married

this is a commissioned caricature painting done for some very dear friends of mine from St.Louis who are getting married this weekend.....Congratulations Logan and Jen!!!!!

Michael Vick goes home (Bad Newz for Dog lovers)

Former NFL Quarterback Michael Vick has now served his time in a federal penitentiary (19 months) for funding and participating in illegal Dog fighting . He is now serving out the rest of his sentence in the lap of luxury under house arrest in his Virginia Mansion.

Pakistan: The next big thing

On the subject of torture

I really think he probably is

Former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney has a special message for the American people

that is all.


end transmission

Manny Grows a Pair

For those of you that don't follow American Major League Baseball this is Manny Ramirez, Outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Manny recently tested positive for the Female Fertility drug Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, or hCG. For Men hCG is commonly used to help restart the body's production of Testosterone after prolonged exposure to STEROIDS.

#208: Arlen Specter is magically a Democrat

Don't tell Tom! :
A Jert + Bluhm Collaboration




*click on images to enlarge

you can also see the pages full size at joebluhm.blogspot.com

This is a four page comic that recently appeared in the latest issue of the caricaturists quarterly magazine Exaggerated Features. It is a collaboration with myself writing and providing art direction and Joe Bluhm drawing and digitally painting.

This comic started out as an idea in my sketchbook from there I developed it into a series of loosely sketched rough drafts.
below is a (very LOW quality) page from the 3rd rough draft



After I was happy with the the pacing and the dialogue I then mapped out and sketched each individual panel, .....I like to treat each panel of a comic as important as the page itself. It's during this stage that I fine tuned all the gesture and movement of the characters and I double checked the dialogue.
below are some panels from the final strip with my original direction sketches underneath the finished drawings.










after I finished mapping out each individual panel, I then mapped out the final page compositions.
I designated each panel with a number to help make communication with Joe easier.


After all this Joe and I discussed the color scheme and design of the project. I told him that funny and interesting characters were more important to me than achieving a perfect likeness' (but to my surprise and joy he was still able to pull really good likenesses) After our initial planning discussions he began Penciling the pages and submitting them to me for approval. After I signed off on the pencils he then Inked and colored the pages.
below are some "in progress" pages Joe sent to me during the inking process


I had a lot of fun doing this project with Joe and the final product is VERY ( and I mean very) close to how I envisioned it.

there are two big questions about this comic that I've gotten from the people that have seen it already. Let me try to answer them now

1. "Jeremy, Why didn't you draw this yourself?"

the answer to that question is I didn't have the time to map out , draw , and finish this comic myself by the e.f. deadline, becaaaaaaaaaaaause among other things I am currently working on writing and drawing my first comic book. I'll have to give more information about that as I get closer to printing:) I also have been looking for an excuse to work with Joe Bluhm because I am absolutely blown away with his incredible abilities.

2. "How did Tom and Ed like it?"

Ed found it flattering, I think (at least that's what he told me:))

and Tom tweeted to Joe on Twitter :

" yes. Loved your comic. Fact that Jert was an irresponsible asshole not news to me, however."

Well that sound like a ringing endorsement to me:)

I like trying new things and this was a positive experience for me....

lemme know what YOU think....leave a comment:)

#206 Exaggerated Features
I can finally reveal the cover I did for the winter 2009 Exaggerated Features Quarterly caricaturist magazine put out by the International Society of Caricature Artists.
The theme of this piece was "a day at work drawing caricatures in a theme park."

This is what I turned into the A.D.

....And below is how the cover appeared after printing, The only change the Art director (the wonderful and classy Debbo Burmeister) made was the font and punctuation in the word balloon.

For this piece I got out of my comfort zone and used a acrylic wash technique mixed with brush pens for the line work. I wanted to produce a piece that was layered, loose and lively with a watercolor feel. I was a little nervous turning this in because I know many of the members of the ISCA are big fans of the superclean tight digitally rendered look, but now that I see it in print I'm pretty happy with the final product . I just wanted to do something a little different and I hope I accomplished that.

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think:)

#205... a BEASTY day at the aquarium












Here is my early contribution to "International Beasthead Day". I had to observe the caricaturist holiday 2 days early this year due to scheduling conflicts. These are highlights from drawing live retail chair drawings at the Georgia Aquarium on Saturday the 11th. These drawings are still a little on the cute side to be considered true "beastheads", but I feel like I had a pretty good drawing day none the less. For those artists interested in participating, just go in to work on Monday April 13th, push some hard exaggerations, take some pictures and post 'em on yer blog . I'm a big fan of The San Diego Beasthead crew especially Manny, Oakes, Philby, Kapnicky and Urzua...I'm looking forward to some funny drawings come tuesday morning




...and here is a short video I took of the other beasts on display at the Aquarium.

#204 NGCSU gig
( North Georgia College State university)



5 minutes per face with a markette and black artstick

#203 UGA gig






2 drawings from a live caricature event for the University of Georgia. Each took 5 minutes. I used a Dixon Markette marker and a black prismacolor art stix color stick.

#202

#201: Jertography.... Bavaria