Caricaturing

Outside of animating I have always done caricatures on the side, usually not paid, they have mostly been for peoples birthdays and they have rarely been of people I know, usually I have caricatured famous people and these caricatures have often taken a while to produce.

The above was a live brief that was posted on the LCA Student Collaborations page on Facebook and around college. Originally I took little notice of the brief, focussing more on the animation I was producing. But I received advise from numerous peers that I would be an ideal candidate and that i should definitely go for it. Initially I was skeptical as I hadn't caricatured in a while and had rarely ever done live caricatures. I was encouraged that this would be a good thing to put on my CV so decided to go for it, they liked my work and I was hired to caricature people at the presentation. 

In preparation for the presentation I caricatured people I knew by allowing myself ten minutes to draw them with pen straight onto paper.

The live caricatures at the event went very well and I received very positive feedback that my caricatures were very successful. This experience was very rewarding as it showed me that outside of animation, caricaturing is a great thing to do on the side, furthermore this experience allowed me to gain future potential clients as they said that if I were needed again, they would contact me.

Since then I have tried to keep caricaturing people and putting these caricatures into my portfolio and having them as part of my online presence.