Promoting the ISCA caricature convention

This morning Erica Missey, Ryan Foerster and myself went to Kens5 TV and were one of the segments on their Great Day SA show. We went promoting the ISCA caricature convention
here in San Antonio November 11-16 at the El Tropicana Hotel. Here the link

http://www.kens5.com/great-day-sa/The-Art-of-Caricature-173325931.html

How soon do you think it will be before Hollywood calls me?

Practice drawing with a 6B and 3B graphite pencils

After the ISCA convention I visited my cousin and

her husband in Florida. Took a photo of them.

I decided to see what I could

do with a 3B and 6B graphite pencil, and

draw a caricature of them.

Drawing in a similar style of our guest speaker Drew Friedman.

and using the tools that Tom Richmond prefers.

I hope they are still willing to talk to me

2011 ISCA Golden Nosey Winner

As I wrote in an earlier blog,

at each ISCA convention, an artist

is chosen as the best for that year

and wins the Golden Nosey.

This year it was

Tomokazo Tabata from Japan.

Above is some of the work

he displayed on his wall.

He even drew me. I am the

third drawing from the bottom

on the left side.

I worked with Tomokazo when

I was invited to go to Japan back

in 2000. Even then you could see

his creativity and talent.

More Art drawn at the ISCA convention

A lot of the work is more studio type art than

the quick party type caricatures.

although there were some good

party / theme park caricatures displayed, which

I will post later.

Excellent color caricatures

There were caricatures drawn in about

any medium you could think of.

from crayon - pencil - watercolor to oils

to computer and now even

on the iPad.

Some of the artist chose

to have their display area a theme.

Being the convention was held in St. Petersburg, Florida,

This artist used his space to

create a ocean scene, where every

model was a sea creature.

Here is one display who chose to have a Batman theme.

People who know Tom Richmond of MAD magazine, know he is big

Batman fan.... so every caricature had a mask on.

and there was a very good likeness of the people drawn.

Here the artist chose to draw every Master who was

in attendance in a body situation.

Strong black and white drawings.

Some of the Masters work

At the ISCA convention they hold

competition for different categories.

The top 3 awards are the

Golden Nosey / Bronze Nosey / Silver Nosey.

The one that wins the Golden Nosey is

put into the Masters' level.

Here is some of the quality work

that the masters who attended this displayed

on their space.

This is only a few of the caricatures drawn by

the masters all in 4 days.

I will try to post some more work of the other artists

who attended the convention

WOW

Work / Vacation /

Get Away / Education

Or just plain old Intimidation.

Call it what you want.

This past week I have been away from

downloading anything on my blog until yesterday.

I attended the 20th ISCA Convention in

St. Petersburg Florida.

I had a chance also to visit my cousin Carol and her

husband Warren.

Please feel sorry for me. This is what I had to put up with.

These are the scenes just outside the hotel resort.

I will be posting some of the artwork of the different

artists who attended the convention in the week(s)

to come.