Current Cartoon Portrait Speed

It was such a busy day yesterday at the Briliant Sky Family Fun Day, that I did not get the chance to photograph any of the 62 cartoon portraits I drew in 4 hours.  So my average speed was 15.5 ink sketches per hour.  Most popular requests were mermaids, butterfly fairies, and angels for the girls. Most boys went for the dragon ninja theme and the usual sport player request (baseball, basketball, and hockey). Several girls did request the ninja/samurai portrait as well. Thank you to all the families that stopped by my table. To any of the parents that I met yesterday, if you have the time please e-mail me a picture of your child's cartoon sketch portrait, so that I may illustrate this post. Until next time.

Family Fun day at Brilliant Sky Toys & Books of Cary

Thank you to all the guests that stopped by the cartoon portrait station earlier this afternoon at Brilliant Sky Toys & Books of Cary.  It was fun to speed sketch 55 cartoon portraits from 4:00 pm to 6:45 pm (which works out to be a rate 20 letter-size pictures an hour! - probably something of a personal record an even got the paper cuts to prove it) in a variety of fun themes: dragon warriors, ninjas, mermaids, fairies, and princesses.  The most unique requests of the day were for a "Nascar driver" grandma and a "Devil" kid.  Found it quite amusing that the mom commented that it was quite the appropriate choice for the latter one.  Also distributed some paper airplanes and dragon/ninja mini comics as examples of the materials and activities featured in upcoming "Cartoon Sketching" classes at the Cary Arts Center.  The week-long summer camp sessions consist of five 3-hour long classes where we cover character and creature design, practice some speed sketching, draw mini-comics, create pop-up cards and dioramas, fold origami airplanes and ninja stars, and draw some inspiration from ancient civilizations and Japanese pop-culture (comics and animation).  You can find full descriptions for the planned classes in the online catalogs.  I included a sheet with all my class registration codes in the catalogs that were on hand, or you could simply check the post below.