Marinated Marina Madmen (and Women) and the Caricaturist Who Loves 'Em

Here's some of the great people I drew for a Boat and Marina Equipment supply company that puts on an annual convention in Atlantic City for their clients every November. This is the 3rd year I drew for them -  awesome, generous hardworking folks who run the event, and it's ALWAYS a pleasure working with them. And what a great, fun crowd of people attending this with hilarious faces and funny accents (many are from Long Island, Maryland, and of course Jersey!)! Couldn't do it without them!

3RD year for this sweet lady's caricature!

2ND year for his...

One of my favorites.

Zoomed in for your grotesque viewing pleasure.

Wasn't he in the Beach Boys?

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT...

EMT'S. This is a photo from an EMT convention that was about to take place at the hotel I stayed at. The faces were so great in this I had to get a photo, so i could draw them later. Hasn't happened yet.

My wife Jill points at a dummy's leg stump. 

Jill and me, er, the dummy.

I LOVE me some bloody dummy stump!

scrumptious....

OKAY, ENOUGH SHENANIGANS, BACK TO THE CARICATURES!!

Drunky unhappy

Drunky get caricature

Drunky now happy. 

Wifey won't let Drunky hold caricature because he's soaked in beer.

Drunky now unhappy again.

Orange Julius.

Caricature hack massacring another face...

Hmm, should I 'fix' her tooth? What if she hates it...

Aw, that wasn't so bad now, was it?

Bruce Willis' brother! No, not really.

Meatball 1

Meatball 2. I like the sequel better.

Cute Girl and the alien from Meatballs 2

Mean or Hilarious, or both. You decide.

Hadda be from Joisey.

AND THERE YA GO!

THANKS FOR WATCHING!

Honest Markers and Sadistic Mothers/I Love College!

What else? more fun comically digging out the tragically humorous heart of humankind , in a light heartedly brutal display of permanent marker honesty and pungent fumes... These ones in particular were done at an annual Oktoberfest celebration in supposedly upwardly-mobile Upper Merion (a near battle royale between two mothers over whose kid could get more than one caricature from the two artists working, despite the quickly approaching end of the gig, nearly ensued, until I had to write up a sign proclaiming: "ONE CARICATURE PER CUSTOMER ONLY PLEASE"....which STILL did not cool the fires of illogical thinking and desires to have all 5 kids be made fun of twice...), and the second set is from a student "Mind-Reading and Past Lives" event squeezed into a little campus restaurant/hangout on the grounds of Monmouth University. After having had their cards, palms, or charts read by the fortune tellers, I was supposed to ask each student what past life they might have had if they had had one, or somesuch. Most didn't really think too hard about it, and didn't really care what they got drawn as, and neither did I. At least there were no fights over whose past life was cooler, or something. Though that might have been entertaining.

This sad looking kid kind of sadly told me he'd like to be drawn as a soldier. Is this a sad caricature?

I think I may have captured this kid at 30, not 10...

This boy wanted a crazy one, so he got it. It's no Chris Chua, but it's approaching the same dimension (demention?).

Heh. Mosquito Kid's friend wanted the crazy too.

These babies were squirmin', but generally good subjects to draw because of their expressive faces. Usually babies just sit there looking blank, with drool splashing out of their mouths and whatnot.  These babies had hilarious faces, no disgusting ones!

 Bored College Kids (NOT)

Got to draw this girl again - first drew her in May at an event here, 7th and 8th pic down...

http://caricatoonzbyjohn.blogspot.com/2009/10/fast-and-bulbous.html

This budding filmmaker let me know of a cool short he did that won two awards at the Ocean County film fest - way to go!

Check out "Joyous Breakfast" here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N8w4Y_CRqY

Some Cute Ones

For some reason I didn't take many photos of gigs in September, so this is all I have. Please don't cry. Anyway, here's some cute ones.

I thought he looked like Rodney Dangerfield, but my marker was apparently thinking "Elephant Man".

They loved/hated this drawing! Totally contradictory reactions is what I aim for.

August Flashback!

Here's a quick roundup of last August's bounty of fun faces and sweaty heads I drew at various places...minus the mosquitoes and unbearable humidity of course.

This is always a fun one - third year for a senior living facility Staff Party in Allentown, PA. Good people, good faces, good eats. 

Another summer company picnic outing, in Jersey, with two other artists. I liked the sly faced faux-hawked kid, and the gigantic eyed Miss NJ Pageant Winner girl (or something) the most, and just didn't feel like taking photos of the rest of this 5 hour gig. I must have been tired.

Another summer picnic outing, in Jersey, with the smell of Burgers, hot dogs, and fish BBQing on the grill. Man, I can't wait for summer. Wah!

Mermaid Lakes outdoor Company PARTY in the middle of January.  These gals were good sports and real troopers considering the 24 degree winter weather.

No, just kidding, this was in August.