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Christmas in September

Published on September 29, 2024 by oddboxcomicsLeave a comment

This is a caricature portrait of my brother Joey, his wife Jennifer, and their granddaughter, Everlee. This was a Christmas gift from Everlee’s mom, Autumn, to Joe and Jennifer.

I got back to basics when drawing these caricatures. Although my drawing tablet has its advantages, using just a primitive pencil and eraser on paper is much more enjoyable. I drew the faces with pencil, scanned them into Photoshop, and then created the rest of the portrait using the drawing tablet.

Would you like to give a caricature portrait to one of your loved ones this Christmas? Let me know what you want and I’ll quote you a price, then you will say, “yes or no”, then we dicker and haggle maybe, and then you say, “yes”. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Contact Bob at oddboxcomics@att.net

Everlee and Autumn

Published on July 23, 2023 by oddboxcomics2 Comments

These are caricatures of my niece, Autumn, and her daughter (my grandniece?) Everlee.

The Botez Sisters

Published on March 23, 2023March 23, 2023 by oddboxcomics2 Comments

These are caricatures of Alexandra and Andrea Botez. They have a YouTube channel and they also stream live on Twitch. They are big in the chess community, and they are pretty funny. Alexandra is the Dean Martin to Andrea’s Jerry Lewis.

Cenk and Ana of The Young Turks

Published on March 10, 2023 by oddboxcomics1 Comment

Behold caricatures of Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks. They do political commentary on YouTube.

Owen Morgan (Telltale)

Published on March 3, 2023 by oddboxcomics2 Comments

Sometimes, when I draw a caricature of somebody, I get this slight twinge of guilt telling me that I am mocking or making fun of my subject. I have to remind myself that I am actually honoring the subject. As I am drawing, I am admiring certain physical characteristics unique to my subject that I find fascinating enough to take the time to draw.

This is a caricature of Owen Morgan. He has a YouTube program that I watch quite frequently. He exposes the hypocrisy of some televangelists, evangelists, religious figures, and, of course, politicians who pretend to be religious. Nowadays, it is very difficult to discern whether someone is a politician or an evangelist. The line between them has gotten very, very thin.

The Near Future

Published on May 8, 2022 by oddboxcomicsLeave a comment

Here is my very first speed-drawing video!

Gamer

Published on May 7, 2022 by oddboxcomics3 Comments

I drew this for Meg. It is a caricature of her friend’s recently deceased cat, Gamer. This is a gift to her friend.

I screen-recorded this entire drawing. I had to break it up into six half hours. That is three hours (for those who are keeping score at home). I am having trouble figuring out how to speed up the videos so that three hours becomes three minutes. It is kind of boring to watch it at regular speed, I am sorry to say. It looks kinda cool speeded up, though. I may post that in the near future.

Just for funsies, see if you can find my signature.