Goofy Faces Caricature Blog

This year I was offered an amazing opportunity to speak at the TTI/Vanguard: NextGens Technologies Conference in Miami, Florida at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. TTI/Vanguard is a unique forum for senior-level executives that links strategic technology planning to business success. Their conferences are about discovering technological possibilities for the 21st century. Five times annually, corporate and government leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, and academicians come together to envision the future's future technologically. In highly interactive sessions, led by a world-class Advisory Board—John Perry Barlow, Maria Bezaitis, Gordon Bell, Peter Cochrane, Deborah Estrin, Eric Haseltine, Michael Hawley, Alan Kay, Leonard Kleinrock, Douglas Lenat, Robert Lucky, Nicholas Negroponte, and David Reed—and today's most influential thought leaders, debate is stimulated, and breakthrough ideas flourish.

Being around such innovative individuals was intimidating, to say the least. Having to give a presentation on the art of caricature to a group like this was even more nerve-racking. However, the presentation went off without a hitch and many attendees complimented me on my performance. In addition to speaking and networking, I also drew at one of their events on the last evening of the conference. Guests lined up to be drawn by one of the speakers which was a unique opportunity for them as well as myself!

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Networking is so important for small businesses. It gives them an opportunity to spread the word about their services and products and exposes them to new ideas. They can also be a lot of fun. Network After Work is a group that hosts events across the country. They get a great turn out and attendees get color-coded tags to tell you what industry they are from. Robert Bauer recently attended an after work party held at Barrios Mexican Cantina in Birmingham, MI. He delighted guests with quick sketches he drew on small cards that included all his contact info for Goofy Faces. Just another great marketing idea to help people remember who you are. Photos curtesy of Fantasy on Film

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On September 30th, 2011, Oak Pointe Church held its annual Rockfest for kids and families while Goofy Faces was hired to draw the crowd. Robert & Bil kept busy drawing kids for 2 hours. Afterwhich, everyone made their way into the auditorium for live music.

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It's Autumn once again and that means it's time for the annual Art & Apples Festival in Rochester, Michigan. This marked the 8th year in a row that Goofy Faces was there to draw attendees and promote our services. For the 2nd straight year, guest artist Glenn Ferguson was there to help draw faces for 3 days. Kids and families enjoyed their caricatures. Even Hardcore Pawn star, Les Gold stopped by to see us at work.

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Check this awesome article in WIRED Magazine about facial recognition and how caricature artists have it all figured out, written by Ben Austen. You can also download it as a PDF.

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VPI, Inc. hired Goofy Faces to draw caricatures at their trade show booth at the OIAA Trade Show at Caesar's Palace in Windsor, Ontario. To go with the Roman theme of the event, 2 templates were designed to use for the guests, one for male and one for female. 

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Goofy Faces was invited to draw graduating seniors from Mt. Clemens High School. It was the first outdoor event of the season and fortunately there was no rain. Congratulations to the class of 2011!



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Goofy Faces was recently hired to draw full color caricatures at the Stars & Stripes Gymnastic Banquet held at the Fountains Golf & Banquet Center in Clarkston, MI. In order to get all 36 gymnasts finished in under 4 hours, a template was created for the first time that included color. Each body was preprinted with the color already there so only the faces needed to be drawn live and colored. It was a great success and now is another option for customers everywhere!

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Saturday, April 30th was Commencement Day for the University of Michigan. The Chemistry Department held a reception for its graduating students and Goofy Faces was there to draw students as grads. 2 artists kept busy for 2 hours drawing student after student. Go Blue!

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Small parties offer a great opportunity to have your artist draw everyone in color. This party, which took place at the Troy Historical Museum, needed 12 kids and adults drawn and colored in two hours which is exactly how long it took to finish them all.

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