this here is my first post in a while but should also be the first of MANY in the coming weeks. with almost as many projects as there are days in the week, PER week; i should have my hands full in the coming month and a half. however from the looks of things it will shape up to be an exciting quarter. i have a newfound love in the art world and its name is caricature! at first i was a bit daunted by the prospect of being graded on the level of likeness that we got in our drawings and pretty unsure of my skills, but the class is turning out to be very laid back and loads of fun. its not often that we get a class where we can just sit back and draw the other students around us. (you'd think it would be right?) anyway this is one half of my first caricature assignment. we had to do two drawings, one of our classmates in the style of the late great david levine or al hirshfeld and another in a more blocky art deco-y style more like robert risko. this was my attempt at the more risko-y style. i found it was much less natural to me than drawing more naturalistically but i think this one was much more fun both to do and to look at than the other one which i will post up as soon as i get it back from being graded.