The artist was hired to draw digital caricatures for a birthday party held at an appropriate venue—the Computer History Museum in Mountainview. The birthday boy pulled a neat Zelig trick, inserting himself into various historical exhibits around the museum. Great fun for everyone. You can see all 41 caricatures at the download page in the menu bar above.

ProImage Installers hired the artist to draw live digital caricatures at their booth during the Globalshop 2010 Convention at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas. This company installs retail fixtures for huge retail chains all over the country and they are great fun to work with. Our booth was a real attraction, especially with an adjacent exhibitor dispensing free wine and beer all day. Only in Vegas!

This extravaganza was held on the last night of a conference for event industry professionals. Richard Byford of Byway Events and Entertainment put on the event, and the artist’s live digital caricatures were part of  the entertainment. It was a busy night, as usual, with a nonstop lineup of eager subjects.

Televox brought the artist to HiMSS, a mammoth trade show for health care IT professionals. What do I mean by mammoth? It took 15 minutes just to get out of the convention hall at the end of the day. Interest in my caricatures grew each day at this show, so that by day three, demand was such that I was inspired to achieve a pace of 5 and 1/2 minutes per person over the course of the day.  Televox springs for badge holder/lanyards, so people can wear the caricatures all over the show as kind of advertising, which I think is pretty smart. When I arrived back at SFO at midnight, I crossed paths with a guy who turned out to be one of my 58 caricatures that day. Small world. Caricature subjects can get their jpegs at the downloads page link in the menu above.

“… fascinating to watch.” HIStalk Blog

Televox brought the artist to their booth at the Chicago Dental Society’s winter show at McCormick Place. Working on a 60″ screen, Doug drew a steady crowd of onlookers with his caricatures, helping Televox create the buzz they deserve at this convention. These caricatures averaged 7 minutes apiece, a nice pace for drawing all day!

Bloomingdales hired the artist to draw digital caricatures of shoppers at their Fashionable Fundraiser Event. It was a unique entertainment for a department store and the shoppers lined up. One can see all their caricatures at the download link on the menu bar above.

“It was fabulous, and the crowd loved it!” Bailey Locke, Public Relations Manager

This is the big one for the world farming community, a huge expo with everything from hoof clippers to monster tractors big enough to crush my Corolla. Alltech brings the artist along to draw live digital caricatures of their dairy customers’ families, which are then applied to T-shirts. Great fun for everyone. Check out the caricatures at the download page link on the menu bar above.

Ameritrade, the online brokerage, hosts a big conference annually for financial planners, and Scout Funds is a regular exhibitor. With all the conference sessions they offer, the exhibit hall is only trafficked for a few hours a day, and it is essential that attendees be aware of an exhibitor’s presence. Toward that end, Scout employs me in their booth, where my live digital caricatures are a unique draw. On the left are a fun group of happy faces, and on the right, a shot of the crowd of attendees applauding the gentleman who bid $15,000 for the chairs the keynote speakers sat on, (two retirees named Bill and W). The proceeds went to Haitian relief. See all caricatures at the download page in the menu above.

The artist was invited to an internal event for the insurance giant, Allianz, held in chilly Minneapolis. The guests had never seen live digital caricature and they were very enthusiastic. The gentleman with the spiked hair was the last subject of the evening, and I took off the gloves for him. luckily for me he rolled with the punch!

“Thanks so much for joining us!  I heard nothing but RAVE reviews. ” Brenda Schmitz, Allianz Life

Melles Griot asked the artist to provide a little levity at their Moscone hall booth for this optics and laser trade show. The reception was warm, with plenty of smiling subjects happy to stop and have their digital caricature done, and ultimately to get to know the CVI folks a little better . These two were some of my favorite faces. The woman holding her cell is demonstrating her caricature in three mediums: on screen, as a 4X6″ photo print, and on her facebook page. How cool is that!

“Thanks again for helping us make our show a success!!!” Nina Richards, Nina Richards, Marketing/ Tradeshow Coordinator

Storepoint is a conference for retailers, a regular stop for this artist, held this year in Orlando at the fabulous JW Marriott Grande Lakes Resort. These terrific photos were taken by corporate event photographer Anthea Haropolous You can see all the live digital caricatures from this event at the downloads page above.

Admob is a a hot item at the moment, in the process of being acquired by Google, and the company was in great spirits—excellent subjects for live digital caricature. The party was held at the timeless Starlight Ballroom above the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. The artist was accompanied by Rhoda Draws, who drew digitally also.  Here is one of my favorite couples of the evening. See all the caricatures at the Download page in the menu bar above.

The San Francisco Tennis Club threw a holiday bash, to which Velocity Circus provided entertainment, including live digital caricature by the artist Doug Shannon. The guests were very much into getting their pictures done, and there is nothing like a long queue to spur my efforts.  I made a personal best speed-wise, drawing 46 subjects in three hours, which comes out to four minutes each. See them all at the download page in the menu above!

The Harmans throw an excellent party every year in the hills of Woodside, where the artist spent a delightful evening drawing live digital cartoons of the kids and teens. This bunch made some wild requests, from sumo wrestler to riding a pink giraffe, so I had a lot of fun with them. Check out the whole slew of caricatures at the download page above in the menu bar.

Gregangelo Productions asked the artist to draw live digital caricatures  for guests  of Tesla at the Hiller Aviation Museum, the sort of place the ghost of of Amelia Earhart would hang out. Here is my favorite couple.

” I heard great reviews..Everyone loved it!!!”

Irena Kofman, Google

The artist was invited to entertain Google employees at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, needless to say, a big affair. There were lots of couples—glad to see that engineers can actually get dates—and the host provided these neat frames. I was too swamped to take much in the way of pictures, but fortunately I snagged these terrific couples. These photos  illustratemy basic philosophy of caricature: capture the beauty of the women and rake the guys across the coals. Besides myself, I  booked five other top Bay Area caricature artists for Google, a nice coup on the busiest date of the year! See all caricatures at the download page in the menu above.

Cityscape, a San Francisco property management firm threw an after work holiday party for their clients and staff, where I drew live digital caricatures on the biggest screen yet. Its very convenient to plug into the wall and draw, and with this congenial and easy going crowd, I had some real fun! See all the caricatures at the download page in the menu above.

This was an exclusive party held in the luxury suites at ATT park. It was great meeting all of you special guests! I’m looking forward to working with you in the future! All my subjects can download their caricatures at the download page in the menu above.

Announcing a first for this caricature artist. One of my subjects from a couple of shows back had my caricature of himself tattooed on his leg! Crazy, funny and cool, all at the same time.

It’s called Regression Nite at Holy Names University in East Bay, a break before the onslaught of finals. The artist drew live digital caricatures as part of the entertainment, along with the bouncy house, dunk tank, dj and poetry slam. Hopefully some of these cartoons will wind up on Facebook, the ultimate arena for caricatures. See all at the download page in the menu bar above.

The client, Autodesk makes design software, including Sketchbook Pro, which they asked the artist to use to draw caricatures of their clients attending their annual Autodesk University convention. Teaching new tricks to this old dog can be tough, but by the second day I was feeling pretty comfortable with it. This being live digital caricature, you can see the results at the download page in the menu bar above. And yes, that crowd is my caricature queue—one reason I like working with BIG screens!

TheSan Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau is 100 years old and they celebrated at the Palace Hotel with wine andfood and some live digital caricature. Subjects can download their cartoon portraits here. And once they are downloaded, there’s more you can do with them. The artist has unveiled a new feature, a caricature print shop, where you can order coffee mugs and Tshirts with your caricature emblazoned.

Salesforce is hosting a big conference in San Francisco this week, and to warm things up for their sales staff, they held court at Gordon Biersch Brewery for a few hours, where I drew live digital caricatures. Caricatures are a super way of drawing people together,  and this group, whose members hailed from all over the world, was no exception. The artist has posted jpegs of all his subjects at this page.

This San Francisco ad agency gets the ultimate jump on the holiday party, they have theirs in mid November. This is the artist’s second year entertaining the staff and guests with caricatures, and I have to say this may be my favorite event of the year. I set a new speed record for digital caricatures— 70 subjects in 5 hours, aided by the numerous couples that posed together. These are the first and last of the evening. See them all here.

“Thank you for entertaining and amazing us…”

Priya Hudson Ellisor
Senior Technical Communicator
Medical Present Value, Inc.

The sponsors of this Austin conference for health care workers livened things up by bringing in this artist, as well as Jeff Mandell, to draw live digital caricatures of attendees. Here are a couple of smiling faces, typical of the crowd. Subjects can download their jpegs here.

This medical conference, held at the Marriott downtown, was for families, so I drew live digital caricatures of kids, as well as their parents. After traveling all over the country this month, it was a pleasure to have a gig in my own back yard. You can see all my subjects at the download menu above.

“Thank you for making my customer event a huge hit.” Sue Pash, Gemalto Inc.

The artist got free admission to the Smithsonian, drawing digital caricatures to entertain guests of Gemalto, a tech security firm that does a lot of work for various government agencies..

Live digital caricature came to the annual Women’s Conference, held in Long Beach this year. The artist was hired by Fidelity Investments to attract traffic to their ScholarShare booth. Here are a few of the female faces, drawn from the crowd so to speak. A really fun show, and with women outnumbering men 20 to 1, a novel experience.

“Thanks again for sharing your wonderful talent with us.  We will definitely look forward to working with you again in the future.” Michelle Kaelker-Boor
Advantel Networks

This Silicon Valley tech firm was celebrating 25 years of business with an open house, and I drew digital caricatures for employees and guests all afternoon. Pictured here is the founder, as well as the artist, feigning delirium after the event.

Televox brought along this artist to Denver to draw digital caricatures for attendees at this medical management show. Although attendance was down and traffic lighter than everyone would like, we always had a party at our booth. Televox  provides lanyard “badge holders” for the prints, with the Televox name. That way, my subjects become walking advertisements for my client. I don’t think anyone could have attended this convention without knowing about Televox. My first time in Denver and I really like the vibe. See all the caricatures from this show at the Downloads page in the menu bar above. BTW one of the big speakers there, Chris Walling put out a nice tweet about me—very gratifying!

Gregangelo Productions asked the artist to help lighten up a multimedia affair at the Rohnert Park Doubletree with his digital caricatures. The event was attended by lighting designers from all over the US, a very smart and appreciative crowd. Caricature subjects can download their jpegs at the download page above.

The artist spent three days here in Honolulu drawing live digital caricatures for Televox, a company that provides state-of-the-art voicemail and related services to dentists. With 24,000 dentists in town there was no lack of willing caricature subjects. The Hawaiian themed templates were very popular. Subjects can download their jpegs at the dowload link in the menu bar above.

Scout Funds is regular client, and a favorite of the artist. The convention was for financial planners, a notoriously serious society, so bringing a little levity to the San Diego convention center was a strategically smart move for Scout. These averaged about five to six minutes apiece. Digital caricatures make great social networking avatars–I wonder how many of these will show up on facebook? BTW, the caricature of the cute redhead below may very well be my personal best. You can view all of them at the downloads link in the menu bar above.

The artist was invited to the work site of a popular startup to do live digital caricatures.  These caricatures averaged about 12 minutes apiece, done for the engineering department, and were printed out as photos and delivered in digital form for later personal use.

Firemans Fund throws a big party every summer and this artist is a regular. This year we decided to try something new–live digital caricature, and it was a big hit. There were lots of kids in attendance, many of whom sprawled out across a big rug to watch the caricatures unfold on the 50″ lcd in the lobby where I was working. I also booked two traditional media caricaturists, Zach Trenholm and Laura Gilmore to provide plenty of cartoon entertainment for the event. You can see all the caricatures at the downloads page in the menu above.

“You were a HUGE hit at the conference.” Jolene Coleman, Senior Broker Dealer Coordinator, Allianz Life

“You were the talk of the conference!” Lisa Gheen, VP of Strategic Accounts, Allianz Life

When the artist booked this conference, never having heard the name Allianz before, he didn’t realize his client is the biggest insurance company in the world. Well, we made a big impact at this convention for financial planners, which was attended by families as well. This show was a first for the artist in two ways: first caricature of a penguin, and first caricature of Jay Leno. (OK, he claims he isn’t but I noticed a couple bugs on his teeth, so I know he rode in on his motorcycle that morning.) See Jay, the penguin, and all the rest of my live digital caricature subjects from this two day, four hour sessions booking, at the downloads link on the menu bar above. Coincidentally, as it turned out, my next live digital caricature gig was Firemans Fund, an Allianz subsidiary.

This company party was a first for me—using live digital caricature that is. It was Virgin Air’s two year anniversary here in the states and by the look of things they are doing very well. There was a long line of singles, couples and families, but I kicked these caricatures out in pretty good time—about 4 and a half minutes per subject. It was great entertainment for me as well as the Virginairs. See all the caricatures here.

This is my fourth year drawing caricatures—the third drawing digital caricatures—for Forte Design at DAC, and the staff feels like family. The show is attended by microchip engineers, mostly male, who tend to be multicurtural and geeky, all in all great subjects for caricature.  I nearly set a record the first day, drawing 96 caricatures, including the show founder, pictured in the slide show above. You can see the caricatures on my download page in the menu above.

Bob Rabito  invited me to help draw traffic to the Lagniappe Studio booth at Ts2 this week in Chicago. Bob is a premier photographer who does 50 trade shows a year, and may be the only guy I know who works harder than I do at trade shows. That’s him and his lovely wife Eli in caricature form here, as well as a fun-loving red head subject from the show. See all the caricatures I drew at the the download page.

Yahoo had a big presence at this HR show, promoting their Hot Jobs service, and my live digital caricature was part of the mix. My format was deliberately square for this show, so in addition to getting a print, subjects can use their caricatures as digital avatars for social networking. (See the lovely lady holding her phone.) On Monday night Yahoo threw a party at a Bourbon St venue where I drew also, so I stayed pretty busy. You can see the work I did at my downloads page.

The caricaturist drew crowds for DME all week at McCormick Place in Chicago. This trade show is devoted to plastics and is probably the biggest convention I’ve worked. As usual, there was a constant lineup of expectant faces for me—the scene pictured here is typical—which is a nice problem to have in any trade show booth. Go to my downloads page to see all the results!

It’s always nice to get repeat business —it means you are doing something right.  Angius & Terry used my live digital caricatures last year at this regional show to drive booth traffic and boost their presence at this Santa Clara convention. So this was my second year here, and my second time around with a few of the faces. Subjects can download jpegs of their caricatures HERE.

Pro Image Installers invited the artist to draw live digital caricatures at their Moscone booth during the WBENC conference (Women in business) in San Francisco. We had a busy stream of traffic all day with lots of smiling subjects, and many hot leads for my client. Caricatures are such a great way to make personal connections with convention leads, plus create great buzz. Subjects from the show can download their jpegs here.

“I want to thank you for your work in our booth at the WIB 2009 conference last week.  You were a big hit and we had an opportunity to talk to many people who otherwise wouldn’t have given us the time of day! ” Terra Berry, Pro Image Installers

The artist was invited to Chicago to draw live digital caricatures, and traffic, at the UMB Scout Funds booth at McCormick Convention Center. Morningstar is an annual trade show for financial planners, who are having a rough time lately, and could use a laugh or two. As is the case at many trade shows this year, attendance was down, but with their great sales team, and my caricatures as a draw, the Scout Fund made the personal connections they came for and definitely got the message out.

Subjects can download their caricatures ain jpeg form HERE. can download their caricatures in jpeg form HERE.

The artist flew in to Las Vegas for the day to draw live digital caricatures for a cocktail party hosted by Buxton. This Was a retailer convention with lots of happy faces. What this means is that it is time to buy stock in Macy’s again, or….maybe not.  Maybe just go shopping.

“Everyone LOVED the caricatures!”……Judy Young, BUXTON Events

The organizers of this conference celebrated their 100th anniversary with among other things, live digital caricature entertainment. The attendees at this trade show were scientists from all over the world who work with oils and fats, and as subjects they didn’t disappoint. The artist drew throughout the day at lunch and cocktail hour, and then at the dinner gala outside in the balmy Orlando night air.

“Thanks for giving us all of your time and energy at the AAO show this week.  It was a huge hit!!”

Allison White

Director, Marketing Communications, TeleVox Software, Inc.

As you can see from these pictures, Allison wasn’t exaggerating. Live digital caricature was a popular draw at this Boston convention. This is a monster trade show for orthodontists and Televox, a provider of phone and web services for the industry, hired this artist to help bring some buzz and levity to their booth space for three days. The traffic was heavy and the line was seldom less than ten deep, so I never got much rest, but I’m not complaining. I really enjoyed the Televox sales staff and working with the big screen display they provided. These caricatures averaged about 6 minutes each, and are available for download at the Televox site.

The planners of this convention, held at Moscone West, thought my live digital caricatures would help draw traffic in a common area. and help create some community among the convention attendees. They helped that goal with a placard advertising the artist at the entrance of the show, as well as a huge board displaying blow up caricatures of the MRS “celebrities” at the show, done in advance from photos. I took a photo of my setup in the calm before the storm. The screen measures 60″ diagonal, big enough so a crowd can watch me draw, and that’s what happened. The photo showing a bunch of people in line with a gorgeous young lady sitting at my screen is what I found after returning from a 15 minute break—my only one of the day. Caricature subjects can download their jpegs at the download page found above in the menu bar.

Previsor invited  the artist to come and draw live digital caricatures for attendees of this IO Psychology Conference. I drew by day at the client’s booth on the tradeshow floor, and by night at the House of Blues  for a corporate sponsored mixer. Thursday caricature subjects can download their soft copies HERE. Friday subjects HERE. Friday night HERE.

“Let me thank you for all of your FANTASTIC work! …you drove a constant stream of traffic. “ Tamara Scannell, Marketing Events Manager, Previsor

This caricature artist loves San Diego. Hodes iQ hired me to draw some extra  traffic to their booth at this  trade show held at the San Diego Convention center.  The weather was incredible, the attendees were fun, and my hosts were super to work with. The caricatures, in addition to being printed out on the spot were available for download at the Hodes iQ website. Here is one live digital caricature subject sample.

“We are getting only great feedback from your visit! We were definitely the hit of the show thanks to you! “ Shawna Berthold VP, Sr. Director of Marketing

For  a small company, drawing booth traffic  can be a real challenge— one that this live digital caricature artist is happy to solve.  My client, Falcon Electric is a small company that left a big impression on attendees at Pittcon this year in Chicago. With our live digital caricatures we had a constant stream of traffic for two solid days. Typically, my subjects , Falcon’s potential clients would get their own personal “Got Clean Power?”pitch while this caricature artist worked them over.  They got prints on the spot of course, and they can download their soft copies for Facebook at the download page.

“Thanks so much for everything – the caricatures were a huge hit!”  Katie Sidman, Google

The organizer of this Google team- building event—the lady pictured here, along with one of her more cartoonigenic team members—chose  this live digital caricature  artist  to help everyone to have some fun and maybe bond a little. They were printed out on the spot and are also posted online for download. Look for some new caricatures on Facebook !

“Thank you again for such an amazing addition to our event last night.  I couldn’t have predicted how well guests would take to the digital caricatures…You were fantastic to work with and I look forward to working with you again.”     Marssie Versola, FIJI WaterEvents Coordinator

This live digital caricature artist was delighted to entertain at one of the premier events on the San Francisco scene. The Academy of Friends Gala is an annual Aids fundraiser where they pull out all the stops. FIJI Water, one of the sponsers of the event,  had me drawing digital caricatures of the guests. The gentleman with the red shades  was my first and favorite face of the evening.

Live digital caricature  was a big hit at this trade show for school administrators. Moscone Hall in San Francisco was a perfect venue for live digital caricature to be used as a booth attraction. Workforce Software garnered quite a lot of trade  show at this  convention. They give out lanyard cases for each caricature print so that my caricature subjects are walking advertisements for Workforce.  Convention traffic was lighter than last year overall but we weren’t at all lonely with attendees lining up for their live digital caricatures.

UMB Scout Funds invited to me to draw live digital caricatures for attendees of the Ameritrade Conference in Las Vegas this year. Here are several of my favorite subjects of the trade show. These caricatures averaged 6 minutes each.  The two gentleman in one picture are twins, fortunately not identical. In the wide shot below, you can see the sort of traffic we drew at this convention, even during relatively slow periods. As booth attractions go, live digital caricature is both a novel idea nad a compelling way to get personal with prospective clients. Bottom line is that no attendee could have gone home from this Las Vegas convention without knowing about UMB Scout Funds.

Wed & Thur Subjects Download> Friday Subjects Download> NOTE: Multiple pages

I drew live digital caricatures on the roof level, with the night skyline of San Diego as a backdrop for this event. It was held for the same group of retailers and marketers hosted by Storepoint, held at a downtown San Diego night club. One of the advantages of live digital caricature is its adaptability to different venues. A club setting is great for caricatures. The lady in closeup is holding her iphone, from which she downloaded her caricature done the night before. Pretty cool. Subjects from this Tuesday night event can download their own jpegs HERE.

This  caricature artist  was invited to San Diego where Storepoint was hosting a group of retailers at the famous Del Coronado.  Although this is a kind of tradeshow I was hired to draw live digital caricatures  as entertainment at after hours events. San Diego is balmy year round, but I didn’t expect to be drawing on the beach!   Attendees  lined up happily on the white sand for a chance to be drawn using this high tech setup. It was great fun with Beachboys classics to draw by.  Check out the size of that caricature on the screen! Subjects can download digital versions of their caricatures here.