Hand Painted Caricatures on Wine Glasses and Beer Mugs

The process

The design phase

I have templates in my computer for the glasses that I currently use for painting caricature cartoons on. I pull up the appropriate template and design my cartoon in Autodesk Sketchbook on my Cintiq Companion.

After I am happy with the design and/or the client has approved, I then start the process of cleaning the wine glass off with soap and water, then dry it and clean it again with rubbing alcohol.

Once the glass is clean, I measure out the area I want the drawing to be placed on and check to ensure the template that I have printed out is to the proper size.

I then, as a guide, place the template inside the wine glass. I use a cloth to push the paper up against the curvature of the glass.

The next step is, using the template as a guide and using the appropriate paints for multi surface, block in the colours required for the painting.

I find that multiple coats are required to make the colours opaque and smooth. Some colours go on easier than others but I find if I add a tiny bit of white to each colour, it makes it easier to apply. I can always add the full colour in after.

Once I am happy with the blocking in, I use my magnifying light and start to add the details.

After all the details are done, I go over the painting and scrape off any excess paint with an exacto knife. I also inspect the painting for any required touch ups.

The next step is to pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F and put the cup in for 30 minutes. After the time is done allow the glass to cool off in the oven before handling. This step cures the painting and allows glass to be washed without losing the artwork.

That's it. Here is the finished painted wineglass with the happy client... in this case my Mom lol.

Here are some other examples of wine and beer glasses.

Contact me by my email with any inquiries for this or any other service that I offer. You can also check out my website for other products and services I offer.

Happy drinking

Vancouver Fire Dept Commissioned Retirement Drawings

I've been commissioned to draw a number of retirement drawings for the Vancouver Fire department. These are fun drawings that they use for posters announcing the retirement parties but also they order the drawings and present the drawings to the fireman retiring. They either get me to print it out or frame them.

The employees come up with the best details for the drawings. I've never been one to shy away from too much details in drawings and I always try to incorporate as many details as possible because I feel that this really connects the person with the drawing I have done for them.

Here are some examples of the VFD drawings. If you are interested in commissioning me to draw for you, please do not hesitate to contact me from my website CARICATOONS and I'll be more than happy to discuss your needs.

Sketch of the Week - Dexter

Sketch of the Week

Michael C Hall (Dexter)

March 29th 2015

 

Here is my sketch of Michael C Hall. Including the reference photo and steps taken to complete the drawing. I hope you enjoy this post.



 

 

Reference Photo

Rough Sketch

Inking Stage

Rough Sketch of Body

Final Inking Stage

Colour Stage

Finished Drawing

Total Time = 45 minutes

 

For those who are interested, this was drawn on a Wacom Cintiq 21UX using Sketchbookpro 7 running on a windows platform.

 

Please feel free to comment below... cheers

 

 

 

 



Sketch of the Week - John Krasinski

John Krasinski

Feb 15th, 2015

Digital Caricature

 

I'm a week behind on my sketch of the week. I was hoping to post something on this every week but alas. I should name it something else if I can't keep up to it. Nah... I'll just try harder.

 

I'm kinda under the weather this week but sometimes when I'm not feeling 100%, my drawings actually work out better. I wonder if any other artists have that happen to them. I think when you're sick, you are not thinking as clearly as you would and everything is more by feel than by design.

 

My sketch of this week is of John Krasinski. Most know him from the series The Office. I fondly remember him in It's Complicated which also starred Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.

 

This drawing was done using Sketchbookpro on a Cintiq22HD on a Windows 8 PC.

 

 

Reference photo

 

Step one: Rough Sketch

Step two: Inking and clean up

Step three: Attach shoulders and neck

Step four: start coloring process

using layers

Step five: choose background color

Step six: finished drawing

total time: approx. 30 minutes

 

Hope you liked this sketch of the week. Till next week.. really.

 

Cheers

 

Daryl Stephenson

Caricatoons

Sketch of the Week - Game of Thrones

 

 

Sketch of the Week

January 18th,2015

Peter Dinkslage

"Tyrion Lannister"

Step by Step Digital Cartoon Drawing

 

Face Sketch

Body Sketch

Ink "clean up"

Skin and Hair tone

Axe

Clothes, Cup and Wine

Finished Sketch with background

More binge watching.. this time, Game of Thrones. This show is so violent and has so much nudity and sex scenes that all I can say is awesome. :-)

I thought I'd sketch my favourite, and I'm sure most viewers favourite character. Let me know what you think of the drawing and the show.

Cheers and have a great week.

 



Sketch of the Week - Rectify



Sketch of the Week

January 10th, 2015

Aden Young

 

 

When I'm not working in my studio or drawing live at an event, which my wife will tell you, is not often. I binge watch series on Netflix or On-Demand.

 

If any of you are like me and my wife, binge watching has become our obsession. Our taste in shows differ but there are a few series we like to watch together.

 

One of these is Rectify. Currently season one and two are on Netflix and I am fascinated with this show. The story is dark and disturbing, the acting is superb. The main character, Daniel Holden, is played by Aden Young. An amazing portrayal of a convicted killer who has spent 20 years on death row only to be let out on new DNA evidence. His innocence is still in question and... well I don't want to go to far with the story. Let me say that at the time of this posting I only have 2 episodes left of season 2 to watch and I most surely will be disappointed to realise that I will have to wait to binge watch season 3, whenever that does come to Netflix..... damn.

 

My wife likes this drawing but says it is a skinnier version of him and now that I look at it, I should have made his shoulders bigger.... damn ;-)

 

When you are done with work, turn on Netflix and watch this show. Let me know what you think about it.

Social Media and Me

Social Media and Me.

I've been online since 1994, started my first website in 1995 and for the most part (minus the hiccups of life) have been online ever since.

I only recently, in the last 4-5 years, have started to get more involved with social media. I started, as most do, on Facebook. I started my Caricatoons Facebook page a few years after joining Facebook. I have joined Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, Youtube and most recently and reluctantly, LinkedIn.

Google + and Pinterest lost my interest quickly. Mainly because I didn't have the time to devote to them. My Youtube channel sucks and unless I devote more time on it, it will remain.. sucky. I blog, but too infrequently. I spend a lot of time staring at Instagram and although I enjoy it, it really does nothing for my business. I have 1500+ followers on Twitter and I am positive that at least 100 of those are real people. My facebook business page is fun and it is nice to see all my friend and family make nice comments about my drawings, but what else does it offer me?

If I broke each social media platform down and ask myself "what do these sites offer that help to boost my business?" I can honestly say that I have no freaking idea. Except for one.

Only one platform has consistently helped boost my business with the least amount of effort and that was a surprise to me, initially. After really looking at who was on this social media platform, I was surprised that I was surprised.. lol.

Yes LINKEDIN.

A lot of my work comes from the Corporate sector. Live drawing at corporate events and trade shows, cartoons for blogs and websites, caricature drawings that are used to promote teams and projects, retirement gifts, drawing live at weddings that were booked from Wedding Event Planners and caricature videos used at award ceremonies. Where does the corporate sector reside online in social media. LinkedIn!

I find that a lot of the commissions I get for other "gift" caricatures and personal live event bookings also come from individuals seeing my work on LinkedIn. This is where I need to be and focus most of my limited social media time here.

Having said that, not all of my work comes from LinkedIn. Most of the work I get from using social media comes from LinkedIn but that does not mean most of my work comes from LinkedIn. Most of my work comes from 2 other "places" which have nothing to do with social media.

One of these is internet search engines. I code my own website, and even though it is just a basic site with nothing fancy, I am able to use meta-tags and descriptions properly so that when you search for "Caricatures Vancouver" or something along that line, I usually pop up on the first page.

The last and most important thing is something everyone needs to strive for if they want to succeed in anything. This is where I get most of my work from. It's taken a while to build this up but it is something that I am most proud of.

Most of the commissions that I draw and most of the live events that I work, come from someone talking to someone else about something that I drew for them or from the experience that they had with me at an event where I was drawing at.

I'm no social media expert. Far from it and most of my work doesn't even come from my involvement with social media. I can only comment on my own personal experiences so far. Maybe in the future I will devote more time to other platforms, but for now, I'll keep doing what works for me.

A little bit of everything...

Cheers