Caricature Samples

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Party & Event Caricatures (Birmingham, AL and neighboring cities)

Having a party or event? Call today to book a caricature artist!

A fun & unique idea your guests will never forget. Makes a great memento, too.

Rates

Every event is different, please call or email for a quote:
p. 205-531-6580
email: rocksgraphic@hotmail.com

Areas Served

Serving the Birmingham-Hoover metro area and regional southeast, including:

Tuscaloosa, AL
Huntsville, AL
Montgomery, AL
Tupelo, MS
Columbus, MS
Nashville, TN
Atlanta, GA
Birmingham, AL
Hoover, AL

Contact

Tim Rocks
p. 205-531-6580
email: rocksgraphic@hotmail.com

Here I am drawing at one of the first events I ever did, at the BJCC around 2008:

Commissions and Custom Art

Gift Caricatures

For Retirements, Birthdays, Graduations, Wedding Anniversaries, Father's Day or Mother's Day, etc.

Suitable for framing.

Cost depends on size, number of faces, color options --- typically from $70 for basic black & white sketches, up to $250 to $500 for color art with multiple people.

T-shirt Art

For Company events, Family Reunions, Clubs, Sports, Advertising and Promotion, etc.

Advertising Art

For business cards, store windows, logos, signage, magnets, etc.

Please call or email for a custom quote:

TimRocks
205-531-6580
rocksgraphic@hotmail.com

Pilot and Roller Derby Girl Caricature

In this bizarro concept I came up with, we have a Roller Derby Girl leaping over the wing of her boyfriend's jet-fighter. Yep.

Who knows what I'll come up with for YOUR caricature??! Right?

Or, we could just stick to plain ol' boring vanilla faces and nothing kooky.

Or, maybe you have a kooky idea of your own. The choice is yours!

Call or email today for more info and a quote!

Professors Keep Retiring, I Keep Drawing

Here's a recent gift caricature for an Auburn professor who's retiring.

His hobby is golfing so we included that, and the subject he taught was public administration --- so we stuck some appropriate tomes in Aubie's golf bag.

Of course, I can draw gift caricatures for ANY occasion... Birthdays... Anniversaries... Graduations... And more! Call or email today! (See Contact page above.)

Rates depend on size, style, color or black & white, number of people, etc. Typically from $80 to $250, depending on the details.

Some color caricatures in different styles

Some recent commissions... The first one is done using color pencils; the second two are watercolor markers (markers that can be blended with water.)

The lighter colors drop out somewhat in the scanned image, but it gives a good idea of the bright vibrant colors possible with these techniques (especially the markers.)

Commissions like this are typically $70 to $120, depending on the number of faces, details included, and other factors. Please call or email today to get started turning your friend or loved one (or yourself!) into a silly cartoon.

Cover for Mike Raita memoir

Mike Raita just wrote a memoir about his career as a sports anchor

...and I got to do the cover!

Yes that's right, he wanted something fun and light-hearted, and had the brilliant idea (I may be a little biased...) to use a caricature on the cover.

(I think ALL books should have caricatures on their covers, incidentally. Please lobby your congressman.)

He also came up with the concept to show a news satellite van with stickers from all the stations he's worked at over his career. As well as a dotted-line map showing the cities he lived in along the way.

After an initial rough sketch to make sure we were on the same page, I proceeded to the line art and watercolor. For this part, I shamelessly channeled my cartooning idol Jack Davis (not saying I succeeded --- Davis had the skills of a 9th level hierophant. Which is pretty whack, if you know anything about hierophants.)

Then, I took the art into Photoshop and added the background map, as well as the text. What a blast to see it all come together:

Here's the thumbnail rough: