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"GOOD."
Marker-rendered
Caricatures
Price:
$15 first face + $9 per
each additional face.
(Price is for face only. There are additional charges
for body, background, costume, lettering, word balloons, props,
etc., color
not available using markers--see "Digital Line Drawings"
and "Digital Caricatures" to right for color option.))
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About
Marker-rendered
Caricatures.
Media: Watercolor markers on paper, scanned and emailed to you.
These are like what I do when I draw at events such
as parties, trade shows, company picnics, bar or bat mitzvahs, festivals,
fairs and so on.
They are carefully drawn but they are "one-offs" in which
I make just one single best attempt at capturing a good likeness
in a funny style. Drawing funny comes naturally to me, but often
if I do several iterations they get funnier and funnier. So this
doesn't produce the funniest version I could come up with, but it
is still a lot of fun, and for many people they actually prefer
this to the more extreme caricature.
If you look very, very closely, you can see that the line quality
is slightly "shaky," not super-slick, not a perfectly
"clean" line, but a lot of people find this endearing
because it shows the human touch. It is reminiscent of Charles Schulz
or Dr. Seuss, whose lines, if you look closely at them, have this
less-than-perfect, un-mechanical quality. (Obviously if you get
TOO shaky, it becomes just messy-looking!) Look at the samples and
judge for yourself what you like and what you wish to spend.
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"BETTER."
Digital
Line Drawings
Price:
$40 first person + $20 per additional persons.
Add
$20 for flat color, $50 for shaded color1. (Price is for face/neck/shoulders.
There are additional charges for body, background, costume, lettering,
word balloons, props, etc. depending on complexity. Please ask for
quote.)
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About
Digital
Realistic Line Drawings.
Media: Pressure-sensitive drawing tablet, digital vector and
paint programs, emailed to you as pdf files.
These
are highly finished drawings done very directly from the photos
you supply to me. They are fairly realistic but somewhat like a
comic book
drawing as opposed to a simple illustration. I perfected my techniques
for drawing with these digital tools while completing a Master of
Fine Arts degree in Multimedia Design at the University of Minnesota
several years ago. The line quality is very smooth and clean.
I can inject some degree of fun into them, but they are rather tame
compared to what I can do when doing a full-blown caricature. Still,
many people prefer these, especially when concerned about not offending
the subject being drawn. These are "mild" as opposed to
"wild."
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"BEST."
Digital
Caricatures
Price:
add $30 to price of digital line drawings.
(See column immediately to the left.)
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About
Digital
Caricatures.
Media: Pencil prelim
sketches scanned and redrawn with pressure-sensitive drawing tablet,
digital vector and paint programs, emailed to you as pdf files.
These are like what I did for 35 years in political
cartoons while working for various newspapers like Minneapolis City
Pages, the Madison (Wisconsin) Press Connection and the
Minnesota Daily, and on KMSP-TV, the local FOX television
affiliate's morning news show. They are funny but are drawn with
a degree of class and finesse, not the cheesy variety of folk or
commercial style "caricatures" drawn by the amateurs usually
recruited to draw at shopping malls, amusement parks and even state
fair concessions.
These involve several steps: first, I draw a rough sketch from the
photos supplied by you. Then I refine the sketches to arrive at
the best result. Next, I scan the final sketch. I take that into
a vector drawing program and carefully draw a digital versionfrom
it which pays close attention to line quality. The line quality
is highly refined, very clean and thoughtfully varied. This can
be done in black and white or the additional step of adding color
can be undertaken.
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