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Jessica Bloom

2011-10-23T13:55:00.000-07:00

Jessica Bloom is a caricaturist, body painter, model and friend! I owed her a drawing, so here it is, and the photo i was referencing!

Wired Magazine Writer Ben Austin's Report on Caricature

2011-07-19T15:26:00.000-07:00

*caricature featured in the article, created by Court Jones

I remember this guy hanging around the convention in vegas last november! I was probably told by someone that he worked for wired, but I completely forgot about it till someone posted a link to the article on their facebook Page.

A few of the artists were complaining about how Ben was a bit of a prick in his article, and true, some of his words may have seemed a little harsh, but hold the phone. We're caricature artists, we do this for a living, only with pictures instead of words.

He doesn't make personal insults or attacks, The way he describes us is Objective, descriptive, humorous and doesn't hold back. He in face embodied what it is we do, in written form, and personally I think he'd make a great caricature artist if he could draw.

Read the Article

HELP OUT ANDY!

2011-07-19T11:04:00.000-07:00

Andy Urzua! San Diego Caricaturist is trying to raise some money to go to the caricature convention in Florida this november. He just had a kid, so its tough making ends meet... and one of his heroes Dan Hay is going to be at this convention so he really NEEDS to go.
If you think is artwork is as awesome as I do, send some love his way, and commission him!

HOW TO ORDER:

Email andy_urzua@yahoo.com

payments through paypal-here are your options, click on the link to place your order, and email andy your photos/specific request.

Black and white caricatures for only $10/person (receive the art via email-perfect for facebook!)

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=LJP4ZWG7GFSVE

Full color/body caricatures For $20/person (receive the art via email-perfect for facebook!)

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=PR2FVUQZPTT6W

Beautiful full body colored painted in Gouche for $50/person

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9LLMWFGSN9L8G

You will receive the orginal in the mail as an added bonus!

Anyway, Here's the one that andy did for Yvonne and me! $20 to help a guy out and an amazing awesome drawing as a reward!

Team SG'd

2011-07-19T10:46:00.000-07:00

SG is reunited once again! Sean Gardner is staying with me for 3 weeks and we've been making some SG babies! Drawing of him by me and drawing of me by him!

Sean Also drew my special lady friend Yvonne Wiltse! She's a tattoo artist in Las Vegas, at Tatlantis

iPad caricatures

2011-04-25T11:52:00.001-07:00

I finally got myself the iPad2 and have really been enjoying it, aside from Netflix and face time and amazing games, it's a great tool for sketching, despite the fact that there is no pressure sensitivity.

I like that with the 3G iPad I can draw caricatures anywhere and email them to the customers wherever I'm at.

I've tried out a few drawing apps, and so far my favorite is Art Studio, it's got a lot of brushes and layers and is pretty intuitive, for someone doesn't have a lot of digital drawing experience.

Now another problem with drawing on the iPad is the stylus. Most are only about 3 inches long and have a baby finger sized tip. There are rumors of finer tips out there, however I'm pretty sure they 're false claims, that being said, I'd love to be proven wrong. I did find a pretty nice stylus called "the artists touch" it's bloody expensive, at about 48 euros, but it was designed by some Belgian caricaturists, so I thought I'd give it a shot. The length and weight is much better for drawing then the shorter styluses, plus it has a flashlight and laser pointer on it, which means endless hours of fun if you have cats.

So here is a caricature I've done of my buddy jeff meyer, caricaturist and tattoo artist. And an owl doodle. More to come!

- Blogged from my iPad

Sam Wants an IPAD2 fundraiser!!

2011-03-31T14:12:00.001-07:00

Hey Friends! here's your chance to get a fun profile pic, hand drawn by me for super cheap, and at the same time, help me raise a bit of cash to get an IPAD 2!

Money is super tight when you're a tattoo apprentice, so help me out!

Send me $10 to my paypal account, sam@samgorrie.com and I'll draw your pic. Its that simple.

It can be black and white or colour, head and shoulders or funny body situation!

think of the possibilities!

I want an ipad do draw caricatures on, have a slick portable portfolio, and well its an awesome fun toy!

you can affoard $10! and if i get even 10 people on board thats gonna help out a lot!

my buddy alex getchel, ipadcature!

Frank from 30-rock!

Caricature

2011-03-14T08:08:00.001-07:00

More live caricature. I forgot my Korean markers at home so had to go buy some crayolas and re-learn them. Forgot how fast they are in comparison. Was fun!

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Live sketches in 2011

2011-03-07T22:52:00.001-08:00

It's been a while!

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House Party

2010-08-04T13:10:00.000-07:00

Me and the Roomate just had a post-apocalyptic party at our house!

We spent a lot of time preparing the house to make it look like some type of fallout shelter that might exist after the apocalypse. We had a lot of material to work with, Andy has a lot of weird toys, so we dressed them up for the occasion.
Everyone had to bring food to fit the theme. Many brought canned food, but this dish takes the cake.

Some really great costumes. My friends are serious about themes.

thomas, a video game creator and his friends from work came, had amazing outfits and brought their pre mixed electric booze in mason jars, and canned food with their own made up apocalyptic labels.

you can't have a party with out a pinata!

the hosts having a good cry to cap the night.

Caricature Class

2010-07-08T13:26:00.001-07:00

I taught a small group of people the art of wedding caricature while I was in Seoul. 5 classes. we did two pieces.

This one is of my boss's parents in traditional korean wedding attire.

This one features two good friends of mine from sin city, world famous illustrator/ artist Laurenn McCubbin and her oh so charming husband Alex Getchell.

BunchFamily!

2010-06-02T00:56:00.000-07:00

Hey! Big News!
I was commissioned to draw Liisa Winkler and her family for Bunchland!
It was exciting to take on this project, illustrators they hired in the past for this same job included Kagan McLeoud and Ben Shannon!
Its been a while since I've done editorial work, having focused on caricature for the past couple years but I really enjoyed returning to it and stylistically I approached this piece like my caricature commission work. Hope you like it!

Seoul City!

2010-05-02T09:46:00.000-07:00

I'm in South Korea! Seoul! for the next 2.5 months.
so far I've worked lots, gone to korean spa's and window shopped a lot. first paycheck i'm going shoes and clothes crazy!
Im using these little korean markers over here, cause my crayolas don't work that well on this paper that we have, the thing is, they've changed the marker, so you have to be lucky enough to get one of the original ones, and replace its dried out ink sponge with the ink sponges from new ones, that don't have the right tip.

Here's a bucket full of pics for you, to read more about my travels visit my travel blog:

couples!

This is my super awesome Canadian-Korean-South American co-worker Wil. He's awesome. we drew each other.

Aggie! (baby)

This is my home girl Sae-Mee!

back on the street

2010-03-19T16:26:00.000-07:00

This one was done on a tan toned paper. I think I might switch to this paper for a while, I'm liking the way the white highlights pop, and how rich the colour comes off as.