Doing portrait or caricature from photo usually taking longer times, this is because of the limited detail and info you can get from the photos, hence many artists would charge in a higher rate to draw from photos especially client required to be done in a short while.
Hence, during then event booking like family days, dinners and dance etc, I usually do not accept any drawing from photos or mobile phones, because of we are doing live drawing and all of us charging in hour’s basis, we are hired to entertain as many guests in the event as possible within the booking hour.
If we take in any photo during the event, then we have to ignore or stop the long queue and going to spend at least 25-35minutes to do just only ONE drawing from the given photo, and you will get complaint as well as losing the purpose so call entertaining the crowd.
Drawing from photo, you need to spend lots energy and concentration to observe the photo to be done, if there are limited timing given and moreover there are people waiting or the related guests or organizer asked you to draw faster caused the unpredictable result yet you get blamed; because portrait or caricature is not just an action that ‘just take a pen and draw on the paper’, else why they unable to just draw themselves? Haahaa!
The worst was the photo given is the photo that taken few years ago, hence they will get the real person and come back later to compare his/her current look with the drawing you did just now from his/her photo and tell you “Is doesn’t looks like me at all!” in front the big crowd, this is a true thing commonly happened in Asia country.
As an event caricaturist, you have to prepare for that. Heehee!
Friday, September 4, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Just a Day
Went Chinatown bought some threads today.
There was a rainy day today but seems lots people shopping or passing by around here. 
Just ordered a set meal at 2nd floor of the food court, seems the bread was real big size!
This ‘993 Jing Wu Duck Neck’ store was having good business even tough in this rainy day. 
My new toy! Hia hia!
Saw this giant show in Plaza Singapura Shopping mall!
And this giant Magnum ice cream inside Dorby Ghaut MRT area.
There was a rainy day today but seems lots people shopping or passing by around here. 
Just ordered a set meal at 2nd floor of the food court, seems the bread was real big size!
This ‘993 Jing Wu Duck Neck’ store was having good business even tough in this rainy day. 
My new toy! Hia hia!
Saw this giant show in Plaza Singapura Shopping mall!
And this giant Magnum ice cream inside Dorby Ghaut MRT area.
Sue’s Wax Hand
One of the unique items in the event I came across was Sue’s Wax Hand.
So far this is an item that always loves by the guests in the events, because I always seeing long queue of guests waiting for their wax hand shape being made during events.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
A Dramatically Singapore
You won’t be surprise that you can see this scene in this small tropical country.
You can even having chances to see the TV drama series directors doing their shooting down the street, hence you will be having chances to see models, actors or actress and some famous people which usually we can see on the newspaper or magazine on the street down here.
You can even having chances to see the TV drama series directors doing their shooting down the street, hence you will be having chances to see models, actors or actress and some famous people which usually we can see on the newspaper or magazine on the street down here.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Roving Caricaturist
One of the important factors to work as an event artist was you needs to take note about the environment. Your working space could be very big (eg. On the football field) or it could be as small as in a restaurant or ballroom that the guests was sitting on the chairs set table by tables.
As a roving caricaturist’s demanded by the organizer, I like to work in a big space, because I like to work in a comfortable space.
Roving in a restaurant, not an easy job, event I had do experienced that since 1990, in 2009’s today, I still need to pay a lots of energy to handle such job carefully during the show time.
You must know where to start, when to pause you drawing while there are someone having a speech during the event. Other than that, you also need to know when to give way for the guests or waiter/ waitress walk pass you while you are roving to draw the sitting guests.
That is a big challenge within this 5minutes to draw a person that having the distraction of the guest being drawn was moving his or her head a lot / someone just walk pass between you and the guest being drawn and so fort….and make sure you drawing still looks alike and having a great resemblance you know…haahaa!
As a roving caricaturist’s demanded by the organizer, I like to work in a big space, because I like to work in a comfortable space.
Roving in a restaurant, not an easy job, event I had do experienced that since 1990, in 2009’s today, I still need to pay a lots of energy to handle such job carefully during the show time.
You must know where to start, when to pause you drawing while there are someone having a speech during the event. Other than that, you also need to know when to give way for the guests or waiter/ waitress walk pass you while you are roving to draw the sitting guests.
That is a big challenge within this 5minutes to draw a person that having the distraction of the guest being drawn was moving his or her head a lot / someone just walk pass between you and the guest being drawn and so fort….and make sure you drawing still looks alike and having a great resemblance you know…haahaa!
Sunday, August 23, 2009
F1 Night Race
Time flies as arrow, as per second time of night race of F1 in Singapore, you can see the F1 related promotion or advertisement was surrounding the street.
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