Park Life

He hates you, and thinks you're untalented.

I'm actually a Phelps fan, but I had to illustrate the visual of him getting "kicked off" th Wheaties box.

If you haven't heard the story of this lady, google it if you can stomach it. The decline in society isn't as much the fault of crime, drugs, etc. But rather people like this who discover a wretched way to take advantage of the generosity and charity of others. Not to mention taxpayer dollars.

He won the NBA MVP award, and is considered today's Michael Jordan. His team DID lose to the Orlando Magic however......

He is currently one of the best players in the NBA, and the star player of my home team, the Orlando Magic. He also has some of the largest shoulder I've ever seen on a human being.

The leader of Venezuela, he's probably one of the most hated dictators still in power. You wouldn't believe the level of reaction this sample gets at the park.

This is hip-hop's most powerful couple, but I'll never get that "upgrade" song out of my head from the commercials....

This is a park sample. (example display).

Some people just lend themselves to caricatures.

Melanie's a new artist with us. She's really sweet, with the biggest eyeballs of most people I've seen.

Brandon is a co-worker. You can draw co-workers however you like and they pretty much can't get mad.

Pregnant women are fun to draw, and are always good for a good reaction.

This girl wanted me to draw her as a "bad girl".....but being 15 with her mom behind me...."bad" should be just "naughty".

At least until they see their caricature. This guy was fun to draw and he really liked his drawing.

This guy was all about pennnies.....He is working to be in the Guiness Book of World Records for having the largest penny collection, he has a Chevy van with every square inch covered in pennies glued to it, he even bought a new SUV and paid for it in cash in, you guessed it, pennies. To top it all off........his last name was PENNY!!!!

   He wanted me to draw him as one of the flattened pennies that you can buy in the park (which was the sole reason for coming to the park for him). Fortunately, he paid me in dollars.

They were going to fight if they both couldn't be batmen.

Babies are difficult to do awake, much more so sleeping....but I was determined to make this one work. The family was overjoyed.

Beauty and the Beast.

This kid was from Wales. He was awesome. I thought the parents were going to disapprove, but the Welsch have a great sense of humor.

These kids were all siblings. They were excited, energetic, and jolly before they saw the drawing. After the reveal, only the girl remained seated.....the boys fell on the ground laughing. Some days my job is really fun.

I feel confident in saying this is the only water ballerina drawing I will ever have to do in my entire career. If this weren't hard enough, the father of this girl had to explain his request to me knowing about 18 words of the English language. They both loved it though. Humor trandscends language barriers.

This guy was obviously heartbroken by the SuperBowl outcome. His group of buddies paid me to do this of him. The onlooking crowd grew enormous, and he kindly refused to have his picture taken.....understandingly. He did think it was funny though.

These guys were just cute and in complete synchronicity in everything they did.

This couple was great.....They didn't want to get it done, but after seeing the drawing, they thought it was hilarious and watched for another couple hours at other people's caricature experience.

It always amazes me that some people act the way they do. This was the third caricature this boy had done (the others were done in other places). In every one, they avoided making look him like he was handicapped, almost making the situation worse. I instead made it look as if his wheelchair was cool. The mother was so happy she kissed me like 3 times and the boy did a wheelie for me.