By simonelli, on October 2nd, 2008%
Here are a few things which have been keeping me busy recently. Click to enlarge images then use your 'back' button to return to the blog. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0;
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TV Presenter Chris Park and partner at a Wedding in Hatfield
A3 B&W Caricature with details
A3 Colour Caricature for 3M UK Plc
A4 Grey marker caricature. One of four for Cotswold Lifts
A happy customer at a wedding in Hatfield
Cartoon of overloaded in-tray for a website
A3 Colour Caricature for 3M UK Plc
A4 Colour Two Person Caricature
A4 Colour Caricature
Rosemary’s Pizza
Playing Card Caricature
Cartoon for Richard White’s Accidental Salesman website
Cartoon for Richard White’s Accidental Salesman website
Cartoon for Richard White’s Accidental Salesman website
Cartoon for Richard White’s Accidental Salesman website
Cartoon for Richard White’s Accidental Salesman website
Banner for Yo! Sweets website
A4 Colour Caricature of man and baby
By simonelli, on July 2nd, 2008%
Sorry about the lack of updates, folks, but you know what it's like. Not only have I been madly busy, but I have also been asked to develop the idea for a sitcom! Nothing will be revealed about that until it is listed in Radio Times! Below is a montage of all the things . . . → Read More: Why I have been away
By simonelli, on June 6th, 2008%
THE MERRY FOLK 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 such was the queue of eager 'victims'! I was hired . . . → Read More: Wonderful Party Last Night
By simonelli, on June 3rd, 2008%
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 we all had a marvellous time. And I didn't even . . . → Read More: Caricature Entertainment LIVE at Parties and Events – Watch this VIDEO!
By simonelli, on May 12th, 2008%
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 to conserve computer memory by colouring in each section before . . . → Read More: How to draw a Complex Group Caricature – Final Stages
By simonelli, on May 10th, 2008%
By simonelli, on May 5th, 2008%
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 set up of Ha! Humorous Arts which is . . . → Read More: My WordPress Saviour
By simonelli, on May 3rd, 2008%
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, I add . . . → Read More: The Complex Group Caricature – Composition
By simonelli, on April 27th, 2008%
In the brief I have been given several distinct groups of people in different settings. But all of them must come together in one finished illustration.
So, first of all I drew a very rough Rough to show the client.
Next, I start sketching out all the individual scenarios
. . . → Read More: The Complex Group Caricature – The Composition
By simonelli, on April 26th, 2008%
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 pencilled versions of each face in the A5 areas.
These . . . → Read More: The Group Caricature continued! Drawing faces – lots of faces!
