Old Dogs can still learn.

1. After 3o years of drawing caricatures for a living,

and 47 years of earning a living in art.

2. Learning more on what the tools can do

that you have that can help you finish a job.

I was contacted by a new client from Houston

(200 miles away)

on Tuesday morning. They needed a poster to be printed,

for a conference, no later then Friday AM.

They wanted the final to be in Adobe Illustrator.

They said they looked at my website and told

me what they liked.

Now most caricatures artist out there know

usually people like the exaggeration on others,

but not themselves.

So here is how I did the faces in Illustrator.

WRONG!!!

Here is where lesson 1 kicked in.

They wanted it look more like my gig caricatures

that I do at parties only in color.

Here is where lesson 2 kicked in.

In the past when a client wanted a caricature for a

studio piece, I would draw the person on paper and

then scan it in to the computer. open up photoshop

and work up the caricature.

Because of the deadline, I drew the faces in color

using my iPad with the app Art Studio.

emailed them to myself and dropped them in the poster

to get approval.

Once approved on the faces, I did a black line outline

with a new layer in Art Studio and resent them to my computer

and made a live trace in Illustrator so they could be worked

up for printing.

Here are the final faces along with the bodies/professions they wanted

each to portray.

I was able to make the deadline and

my contact said they were happy with the final.

Lesson 1.

Not all people fear being exaggerated.

It does not hurt to listen better.

Lesson 2.

using my iPad

Art Studio

emailing capability

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Acrobat

I can get the work done quicker.