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LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN got me through college. So as all this melodrama between he, Jay Leno and NBC unfolds I just wanted to make it clear that I'm on TEAM COCO

Really not much of a thing and I'm not sure how good the likeness is. The color is there because that's how I saw a much more finished version in my head (blue dots for eyes, orange playing off of his famous pompador or the 12:05 start being "tomorrow"). Other than that I really had no plan, just doodling while I listened, popping my head up to see how he moved or get a mental image how his face looked. I find it damn near impossible to do likenesses of people from photos. I tend to do better (if you will) by just thinking of the person and by approaching things more like a cartoon than an illustration or exaggerated portrait. Maybe that comes from doing it live. One of my first art jobs was doing caricatures when I was in High School at a theme park called CAROWINDS. As jobs go it was a great gig, but I'm always a bit torn about what it actually taught me. There are a lot of habits good and bad that I picked up from that job, some I still can't shake.

It really wasn't doing caricatures in a true sense. Most times the job was just to make the person happy. I found that by reading the subject's personality I could tell if they were open to being truly ridiculed or not. Surprisingly, most times the people who would pay to be drawn were actually very thin skinned and being a kid and wanting to make money I would give them a more flattering drawing. Which is of course kind of antithetical to the whole idea. One time I even GAVE a redneck woman who had no teeth a set of pearl chompers. Artistic integrity anyone?


Every now and then someone will ask me to do a drawing of them or if I do parties... which is probably right behind "I've got an idea for a children's book" when it comes to idle lamen chatter. No thanks, I'll stick to comics if I can.

That's not to diss the practice. It's a hard job and a tremendous talent. I think the best caricature guys get to the spirit of things, and that's what I'd like to be able to do on the rare occasion I try it.
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~Dreamerwstcoast Jan 28, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Eu tu jason? nice....
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~Darngoodbacon Jan 15, 2010
Orange was a nice choice for this!
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