Finally got around to scanning this. Back in the early part of 2008 I got the opportunity to work at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino for a caricature booth owned by Fasen Arts (warning: going to their site will expose you to a number of guys who are much better than than me). I loved my time there and had a number of breakthroughs as an artist thanks to the sink or swim nature of the job. To this day it is my belief that anyone who wants to do art in any sort of commercial sense would greatly benefit from doing caricature for a bit.
Working at a caricature booth usually meant long periods where you were left unsupervised and this meant that when you needed a break, you just got up and went. I felt that just leaving the work station empty though was bad business-wise, because any passer-by who might be interested in getting a drawing might assume the booth is closed. Since this was a commission only job, it was in my best interest to keep such people waiting around for me. So to cover myself while I would be away, I did a couple of placeholders to assure potential clients that I would be returning in a short while to resume being the least skilled caricature artist one could be while still getting paid for it. The following one is my favorite, but I will likely post the others someday in the future when I have nothing better to post (so, like, tomorrow).
Note my atrocious handwriting!
Sadly, after being there only a few months, the Excalibur made a decision to rent out one of the two spaces our company was renting to another vendor (one of those companies that puts images in crystals) and Fasen had to lay off me and my ultra-talented friend, Joseph Bergin. I really miss doing the job and my love of caricature has only grown since then. Just recently, one of Mad Magazine’s top guys, Tom Richmond, put out a book that teaches the art of caricature in just about the best way I have ever seen. The book is just chock full of the science, if you will, of doing a caricature.
If you’re at all interested in drawing caricatures for fun or profit, I highly recommend picking it up.