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The London Caricaturist
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The blog of a cartoonist in London, UK, producing cartoons and caricatures
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Fun at Parties!
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How I work at parties, Christmas or otherwise
HOW I WORK Parties I draw people within five minutes each on A4 paper in black ink plus grey marker for tone and some colour, such as red for lips. I usually include bodies and hobbies for each person, making it extra personal and keep-able. I can dr...
Really BUSY!
I’ve been really busy lately, hence the lack of posts. Here’s a photo record of my recent weeks! Blogged with the Flock Browser ...
My Ideal Job!
Over the years I have had several jobs, apart from cartooning. My first ever job was during the school holidays working in the Bally shoe shop in Hampstead as a callow 16 year old. Quite what the well-heeled celebs of NW3 thought of being served by a...
The Second Fastest Caricaturist in the World - and that’s Official!
Yes, folks, it’s the shy and retiring Steve Hearn: Caricaturist, caricaturist and former purveyor of pharmaceuticals to the gentry, Mr Hearn was kind enough to feature me in his blog recently. Although it depends on your definition of ‘ki...
The day I met Olympic Champions of TeamGB
Amazingly, it is already four years since I was hired to entertain our Olympic athletes at the coming home party after the Games in Athens in 2004. It was an exhilarating event held in the toy store, Hamleys, in London. Big names such as Tim Henman, ...
The London Caricaturist Website Updates!
The website has been receiving a lick of cyberpaint and I’ve adorned it with a few bells and whistles to make it even more attractive to visitors. You can now sign up for a monthly e-newsletter which I will be sending out to a select list and y...
Wonderful Party Last Night
The merry folks of 2tenfm a radio station in Reading, thoroughly enjoyed my company last night in the Island Bar on Caversham Island in Reading. They insisted I stay an hour longer (extra pay!) and I actually stayed half an hour longer than that suc...
Caricature Entertainment LIVE at Parties and Events - Watch this VIDEO!
Yes, here’s my latest promo video! This was filmed at a party for the Travel Trade Gazette after their week at The World Travel Market in the Excel Centre in London’s Docklands. Those lovely people from Conrad Advertising were there and ...
Photos from latest On Spot Caricaturing jobs!
IN BETWEEN studio caricatures and cartoons I have been on the road travelling the length and breadth of the country, oh alright, Middlesex, Surrey and Oxfordshire, purveying my unique brand of caricature entertainment. Here are some of my latest vict...
Sir Alan Sugar Caricatured by The London Caricaturist!
Amstrad boss and terrifying nemesis of many would-be entrepreneurs on TV show The Apprentice, Sir Alan Sugar celebrated his 40th wedding anniversary a few weeks ago. His good friend and Aviation expert, George Galanopoulos sensibly commissioned a col...
How to draw a Complex Group Caricature - Final Stages
Now is the time to piece together the individual drawings and merge them in Photoshop Once they are scanned in as a single black and white artwork, I add layer upon layer of colour until the cartoon looks ‘finished’. Sometimes it is best...
The London Caricaturist on Leicester Square TV!
Me interviewed by Jeremy Jacobs while drawing a caricature (under pressure!) for Leicester Square TV....
My WordPress Saviour
I’ve just had a lot of invaluable help from Jeff Houdyschell of WordPress Max whose mission in life is to make WordPress blogging easier for the rest of us by leaping in with expert rescue plans! He provided the custom template and helped with ...
The Complex Group Caricature - Composition
I break the picture down into its various sections and work on each one separately, pasting in reduced copies of the heads and gradually refining the surrounding details. (Click on cartoons to see larger versions.) Once these are approved...
The Group Caricature continued! Drawing faces - lots of faces!
Once all the photos have been correctly labelled and collated, the first thing I want from a client is agreement that the caricatures are accurate likenesses of each person in the group caricature. Working on A4 sheets folded in half, I draw rough pe...
How to draw a complex group caricature
I had to delay the completion of this particular blog until after the finished framed caricature was delivered to the client, which I did last Tuesday - he was, of course, delighted. Now, I am happy to reveal the stage by stage method of creating a c...
London Caricaturist Blogged by Zakomedia!
My web designer friend Simon Jones was so delighted with a caricature of him and his partner, Jovinda, that he blogged about it on ZakoMEdia Blog....
HeadCases: Brilliant new comedy show on ITV
I hope you’re all enjoying the excellent animated caricature/comedy show Headcases. It’s the best thing under the heading ’satire’ I’ve seen in ages. And a worthy successor to Spitting Image. Pictured here: Jordan and P...
Bob Dylan sings about caricatures.org.uk!
WATCH THIS!...
Lots of NEWS coming soon!
As is often the case, I am taken away for days at a time by either work or travel and then it takes ages updating the blog! When things settle down I will be able to entertain and delight you with NEWS of the Louviers Cartoon Festival, from which I h...
Caricature Entertainment in Outer Space!
For the past three months I have been undergoing an extremely exciting experience. Richard Branson’s venture into space flight is being preceded by his ‘Space Entertainment Agency’ with which he is supplying heavily sponsored artist...
The Group Caricature Continued - Drawing Faces!
Once all the photos have been correctly labelled and collated, the first thing I want from a client is agreement that the caricatures are accurate likenesses of each person in the group caricature. Working on A4 sheets folded in half, I draw rough pe...
The First Stage of Drawing a Group Caricature
The client contacts me and eventually sends me what seems to be hundreds of photos of all the people involved in the caricature. I like to streamline the process, so rather than print out each photo individually, I use Photoshop to crop them all down...
Cartoons For Presentations
I have recently been working on a series of cartoons for Marketing Mentor, Nigel Temple, to illustrate his talk about how to make customers come to you. These are fun to do as I am simply given the title of the section and allowed to to interpret it ...
Recent Commission for London Caricaturist
This was another caricature commission from the wonderful Dr George Sik whom I wrote about in an earlier post. He just sends me the photos and detailed description about what he wants and I draw the caricature and post it back to him. I don’...
Daniel Craig aka James Bond 007
Here’s a man who is really difficult to draw. This is a work in progress. It’s rubbish, in fact. But I will be back with a better version when I can!...
David Beckham Site Ready to Launch!
Amongst my many studio jobs that I have been juggling recently, some of you may remember that I have been commissioned to draw cartoons and caricatures for The Unofficial Website of David Beckham. This is a humorous website based on the spoof intervi...
Sensationally Successful Corporate Event!
Last night I drew caricatures of everyone at a Price Waterhouse Coopers client party at The Café du Marché in London. This was a 1st Choice Entertainment event and it went down very well. It’s always satisfying getting a photo of a group like...
A lovely and gorgeous moppet of moistness
These words are still inadequate to describe the almost erogenous Dr George Sik (sic). Since around 2001 he has been generously probing me with large wads of cash in order to elicit breathlessly graphic climaxes in the form of caricatures. He not on...
