Recent Caricature Drawing for Dinner and Dance

Did caricature at Sofitel Singapore at Sentosa for a company dinner and dance last week and great to met many friends in the same industry.

Renae was doing tarot reading in the event!

Zaki was doing caricature with me in the event ;p


Another event at Sentosa last friday:  A company dinner at Royal Albatross ship, doing my roving caricature drawing.

One of the performers in the event

This is the ship for the event ;p

Foam Bookmark Caricature

Did foam bookmark at Fairmont Hotel for dinner and dance last week.

Caricature Drawing for Dinner and Dance

Did caricature at Pan pacific Hotel Singapore tonight. Great to meet many nice guests in this event.

One of my drawing, drawing within about 3 minutes.

Caricature Drawing for Event

Did caricature drawing for event at Sheraton Tower yesterday.

Some of my artworks included some other days work.

One of the parents put all my drawing on the wall in a birthday party.

My caricature drawing is my drawing style, I think as long as it look cute, the works do by my heart and not copy American style, is still can call caricature, in face, any works that do it from your heart, it count, nothing is "Certified Style" which mean "Only exaggerated drawing can be call caricature", the person said this word which do not understand what is art, or just try to insult any of us who not copy American drawing style.

Moreover, talk bad other artists to make people believe they are the best, that is very low class people.

Look! Below this caricature photo taken in KLIA airport when I went Kuala Lumpur last week. It was very nice and feel very comfortable,it is caricature to me.I would say, exaggerated drawing style, was depend on certain type of event or those studio drawing for certain purpose.

Caricature at Orchard Hotel

Did caricature last week at Orchard Hotel.

One of my drawing.

One of Singapore's famous Mcee, Cyril Lim on stage ;p

Caricature for Dinner and Dance at Pan Pacific Hotel

Just completed a caricature fringe arts at The Pan Pacific Hotel Singapore for Chanel's annual dinner. As my usual drawing style: using 2 hands to draw, my trade mark in the event industry.

I had been doing such drawing style since 1990, I am the only person who draw using both hands in Singapore so far.I am not the best artist in the industry but as long I have a chance to do the show, always try my best to ensure my quality and quantities within the booking hours.
There are always better artist appeared every second,nobody can control the world, everyone learn from scratch,anyone every heard any baby born from hospital and start to draw already? Heehee! The world is fair enough ;p
I don't teach, so anyone said he or she is my student or partner that using both hand to draw, is copycat and fake artists. There are so many caricaturists in the market now since around 3-4 years ago.
So many caricaturists doing event in the market, unfortunately, each of their standards was very big different according clients and some event companies feedback. Basically, there are too many event companies using cheapest artist so they can earn more, it had been caused a lots of problem. Anyway, seems getting cheapest artist is the current trend!

It depend what kind of guests you going to entertain for your event, your choice to go for quality artist or go for cheapest artist, "just someone show face as a caricaturist will do lah"! All depend on your budget of course ;p

Some of my work.

Shrink Art Key Chain for Great Eastern Insurance Dinner and Dance

Did another event for shrink art key chain caricature for a dinner and dance.

The artwork before and after the shrinking process.

Ivan was doing his wire craft in the event. In the photo seems he wearing a very big big gold bar chain on his wrist. Heehee!

Airbrush tattoo booth under Ivan's brand.

There was a "Wall-E" robot in the event! That was first time I seen in dinner and dance, but according Ivan, that was old story liao. Haahaa!

Dinner and Dance Event at Mandarin Hotel Orchard

Did caricature for Times Publishing Dinner and Dance.

One of the glitter tattoo artist at work.

Some of my works.

As an entertainer, I always try my best to do as many drawing as possible within the booking hour, hence, such live drawing has to be done with maximum quality in a limited time frame.

Dinner and Dance Pre-Event Activities Items

In Singapore, most of the dinner and dance which handle by event management companies, mostly having pre-events or fringe art activities before the arrived guests go in to the ballroom.


Entertainers
For dinner and dance pre-events or fringe art activities, common items presently including:
Airbrush temporary tattoo, Balloonist(while the event known having many children), Body Art (Glitter Tattoo, Henna painting, Face Painting), Caricature drawing, Caricature on Key Chain Shrink Art, Fortune Telling (Tarot Card, Poker Card Fortune Telling, Palm Reading, Numerology, Face Reading, Indian Parrot Fortune Telling, Hand Writing Character Analysis), Fun Button Making (which either draw something or write the guests' name and make it on the round badges as souvenir), Hand Phone Glitters, Instant printing of Glamour Shot, Roving Close-up magician, Silhouette Cutting, Sue's Wax Hand Making, Wire Crafts to make the guests' names, Writing the guests names on the stone (Pebble Art), Mini T-Shirt Name writing using airbrush

Based on the theme, what I came across including:
- Chinese Theme/Shanghai Theme: Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese Paper Cutting (mostly during Chinese New Year period), Rainbow Calligraphy, Chinese Calligraphy on Chinese Fans, Chinese Knotting Demo, Fortune Telling (Mostly palm reading or Face Reading), Chinese Dough Figurine Making Demo.

- Cultural Theme: Malay Ketupak making Demo, Malay Kite Making Demo, Indian's florist ring making for welcoming guests, Chinese cultural stuffs as per mentioned, Indian's Unique Fortune telling which the Fortune Card picking by Perot.

Quick Hairdo and Makeover could be one of the item especially in Retro Theme Dinner and Dance. It could be dancers or models roving around just to create some fun (all depend on client's budget allocation)

- For Casino Theme / Secret Agent Theme, there will be some game setting, either in-charge by the event staffs or by the costumed Models.

Some items rarely seen in pre-events or fringe art activities items that I ever came across including:
Stilt Walker, Fire Eater, Juggler, Snake Charmer, Roving Models or Costumed Models to serve drinks for the guests, "Rice Art" (which write the guests' name on the rise and then frame in a small container then bind to the key chain), Bean Art (using bean stick on about A5 size card or board to combine as a painting, and write some artistic words).


Musician
Sometimes we can see roving Guitarists playing music and songs, or stationary type of 3-4 Jazz Band around within the standard 1 hour dinner and dance pre-events or fringe art activities.


Varnishing Food
Pop Corn making on the spot booth is one of the items during dinner and dance pre-events or fringe art activities especially in "Movie Night" or Hollywood Night related Themes.

"Ting Ting" candy, Malt candy, Chinese Dragon Beard candy could be seen in the event as well. (Can be seen during Chinese New Year Event /Shanghai Theme/ Cultural Theme)

"Teh Tarik" and "Kacang Putih" which represent Indian culture or engaged under Movie Themes.

2-3 Minutes Caricature at Resort World Sentosa

Did caricature for a dinner and dance which held at the ballroom of Resort World Sentosa yesterday, there was a 1000 people's company dinner and dance.Galvin was doing airbrush tattoo in the event.A fun photo taking booth in the event.

Caricature at Regent Hotel Event

Did caricature in Charcoal requested by client for a dinner and dance.This is a "Fairy and Wonderland" theme eventEveryone was dressed in nice costume and taking glamorous shoot.The string quartet added up the great atmosphere of "Fairy and Wonderland" theme event, that was really nice!

Roving Caricature Drawing for Event

Did a roving caricature for an dinner and dance in Marina Bay Sand recently and great so met some entertainers that I know.
Jeremy Pei doing his stage magic in the event, both us was busy working and don't have time to say hello ;p.Some photos at the shopping mall area.There were some roving performers around.

Shrink Art Caricature

Did Shrink Art Caricature at Concord Hotel Singapore.
Met William and his wife were doing Pebble Calligraphy in the event.
Definitely cannot miss this Korean Chicken Set by the stall ‘Kim Dae Mun’

Event at Swissotel Merchant Court

Did fortune telling (Palm reading plus some face reading) for a dinner and dance’s pre-event activity.Sue was doing her wax hand art for the guests.William Lee and his wife were doing wire crafts in the event.William did this for me ;pLisa and Dean from 'The Colourful Faces' in action (Instant printing glamorous shoot).