Couple of caricatures drawn with Sakura Pigma Sensei 0.6 mm and 1.0 mm pens. Gotta keep practicing the proper gear and get some more references for other sports-themed cartoon portraits.
Once the short introductory lecture and drawing demonstration have been completed and the students are engrossed in their respective drawing/coloring activity sheets in all my Art Camps this summer, I have taken to draw as many cartoon portraits as the remaining class time allows. Given my usual sketching speed, that means that most of the students and even a few class attendants have gotten at least one custom drawing to take home as a souvenir in addition to their completed projects.
Any students missing their cartoon portraits will be the first to get drawn on my last day at their summer art camp next week. We'll be working under the African theme, so we'll draw some lions and probably some other inhabitant of the savanna like zebras or giraffes.
Good thing the Sakura Pigma Sensei drawing pens feature waterproof archival ink, for some students colored their cartoon portraits with the Crayola Super Tip markers. Thus the outlines were not blurred nor smudged by the water soluble dyes. Quick Note: Since I plan to relocate to North Carolina in the next couple of months, my last remaining scheduled ARTScool art class from August 1 to 5 at The von Liebig Art Center might be the last opportunity to attend one of my Cartoon Sketching lessons and get a souvenir cartoon portrait drawn for Naples residents.
We just completed the first Cartoon Sketching course of ARTScool 2011 at The von Liebig Art Center. The gallery of student works reflects the different interests of the boys and girls that attended the class and ranged in age from 7 to 14 years old. Throughout the course every student got their own cartoon portrait drawn on the spot as a souvenir, and I did my best to speed sketch as many additional requests as we could fit between class activities (additional portraits as ninjas, surfers, and mermaids come to mind). Everybody created a cartoon character using the Color Blank figurines, some students worked on their dragon illustration skills, others explored the story-telling potential of mini comics, some students worked on their coloring skills with the pop-up card activity and custom sketches, we shared some origami models (ninja stars, penguins, and jumping frogs), and the boys in particular had a blast with seveal origami mini airplanes. 
Dragon drawn with Sakura Pigma Sensei pens and colored with Faber Castell Pitt Artist pens and glitter glue by a 12 year-old student. My sincere thanks to all the creative students and helpful interns for making the first ARTScool Cartoon Sketching class a success. 
Pop-up card skillfully colored with permanent markers by another student. Keep on sketching and exploring your artistic potential kids. Continue to dry different sketching tools and refine your personal sketching kits to suit your needs and preferences. Have a great summer and safe travels!
This is a sample of the works in progress by students in the first Cartoon Sketching week-long course of ARTScool 2011 at The von Liebig Art Center. Each student started the creation of their own cartoon character using one of the Color Blank figurines. Full photo coverage available in my Flickr photostream: photo 1 through photo 17.
There were plenty of coloring activities to exercise eye-hand coordination and encourage the creative use of color.
Students also worked on basic construction of cartoon faces.
Students had a choice of partial sketches drawn on ledger size sheets (11" x 17" card stock) that they had to complete with foreground, middle ground, and background elements using graphite pencil. Then they were also provided with Sakura Pigma Sensei archival markers and Sharpie markers to ink and color their finished illustrations.
Students already started working on the coloring of their first pop-up card project of the week.
Thanks Sandee for taking the picture shown above last Saturday, for I often tend to forget to take a picture of myself in action once I get a rhythm going at a given event. Today I spent a few more hours at the Naples Costco continuing the fund raising efforts for the Children's Miracle Network 2011 campaign.
Missed the "Pirate Crew" by a half an hour on account of rain. Thus had to set up by my lonesome to a slow start given the reduced crowds. Not surprisingly people do not seem to go out to shop much in the rain. The first few cartoon portraits were drawn from family photographs that associates had on hand.
Drew two versions of Ava: one using the smaller 0.6 mm Sakura Pigma Sensei pen that allows for depiction of finer detail. Incidentally this was the version preferred by her father.
Drawn with a Sakura Pigma Sensei 1.0 mm marker pen. The thicker line strokes seem to give this version a cleaner cartoon look that also appealed to the following guest that also requested another Princess portrait.
Not surprisingly, "Princess" and "Butterfly Fairy" portraits were particular popular with the girls.
Requests from boys: rockstar, ninja, pirate, and dragon knight. You may view most of the cartoon portraits drawn today in my Flickr photostream: photo 1 through photo 15.
The only adult guest that modeled for her cartoon portrait today was also one of the top CMN fund raiser associates. Seemed quite appropriate.
Despite the rain, we still manage to raise some funds for a worthy cause. The number of guests willing to sit for 5 minutes to get their portrait drawn picked up quite a bit towards closing time. Might be able to make it to Costco for a few hours tomorrow afternoon in case you might want to get a couple of cartoon portraits drawn while supporting the Children's Miracle Network 2011 campaign.
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