Caricaturing at the America's Cup in Plymouth - After

I didn't take many photos (rather a shame), and all the caricatures I did they got to keep of course, so not much to show.
At one point there was a massive group of 13~14 year old high school kids crowded around us, all wanting a caricature, so I did several two-person caricatures - crazy. I actually found it quite useful though, having another face next to the one you're drawing to help compare features when you're drawing quickly.
I'm really glad I pushed myself into doing it though. You've got to take risks. Being an artist means taking risks, feeling like an idiot, learning on your feet and blagging your way through it all while smiling and exuding a pencil-thin illusion of professionalism.

The iconic lighthouse at The Hoe

Josh's balloons

enchanted(?) participants

Caricaturing at the America's Cup in Plymouth - Before

Hey there peeps

This is a quick update to say I've been commissioned as a caricaturist at the Plymouth University's marquee at The Hoe during the America's Cup world sailing celebrations in Plymouth.
  It's a bloody terrifying thought that I'll be drawing people live in front of them, and then giving them what I've drawn. I've never done it before, but hopefully I'll learn quick.
  I've no idea about times or pricing yet, I'm being paid but I don't know by whom (I think the Uni is paying me rather than people paying me for their caricature) or how much, for how long, which days I'm supposed to be there etc. it's all a bit last-minute I think. The America's Cup is all this week though so I presume I could be working there tomorrow maybe (I mean today, it's 0:35am). 

Here's a sketch of Brad Pitt I did for practice.

...and here's a really really cheesy one of me.


I'm going for the disproportioned style. If I tried drawing people realistically under that sort of stress I think I'd probably just end up making them look ridiculous anyway. 

Wish me luck.

Happy Birthday Emily (finished!)

new blog name

I've decided I'm going to change the name of this blog - yes, again - to Nimmostration. I think it has more of a ring to it and sounds less crude then Ante Up, although some people may find the play on words a bit crass, I suppose. The url will stay the same.
  Before Ante Up it was called Alistair Nimmo Illustration, which I thought sounded boring and too literal. When I first created this blog I named it Heylister Blog. That was dumb.

it drew itself

ball point pen on cheap printer paper

Robbie the Rightious Rebel Rouser (WIP)

 

This is a Bday pic I made for my friend Robs. I'm calling it a WIP because it needs reworking (the shading on the armour is horrible, and why is it so foggy? :P ) and some colour on it before I can put it in my portfolio, which I have yet to put online. bah

The Big Draw

http://www.campaignfordrawing.org/bigdraw/

Members of our illustration class were asked if we could provide drawings of items from the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery anthropomorphised into treasure hunters from another world for their The Big Draw event. These were to be used on worksheets for children to search through the museum and find the items on their sheet.

 For the benefit of those of us who weren't in Plymouth at the time, Claire (http://itsme.boxhacker.com/) went round the museum taking photos of viable objects for us to draw. We then tagged ourselves in them on facebook so we could all easily see who was drawings what.

Big thanks to Claire and Jo (http://www.jolarsenburnett.co.uk/) for helping organise the rest of us. =)  

Below are my pustular discharges illustrious contributions to the event, done with India ink and a dip pen, except the top one which I used a small brush for (I need to buy a good quality sable brush at some point).
     

 

Happy Birthday Emily (WORK-IN-PROGRESS)

 

see the finished version here