CARICATURES BY ELGIN!: ONE OF NEW YORK CITY'S BEST CARICATURE ENTERTAINERS Elgin Subwaysurfer Bolling

CARICATURES BY ELGIN!: ONE OF NEW YORK CITY'S BEST CARICATURE ENTERTAINERS Elgin Subwaysurfer Bolling

ART RESUME

Corporate Gift Caricature The Food Group

This was done for a Tom an executive who was retiring after 35 years from the Polly O Division of kraft Foods. Tom was an avid Golfer who insisted on wearing his old scuffed up "lucky " golf shoes. He was also a NY Yankees fan, and was famous for saying, It is, what it is" and "you cant Reinvent the wheel" . My First choice for the caricature was to incorporate the Polly O block of Cheese as a Footrest, calling attention to the golf shoes that you otherwise wouldnt notice as much, had he been drawn standing. The company must have felt that it was too revolting an image, and rejected it, in place of a normal footrest instead. They also requested I can the position of the Kraft Logo which I was sad to do since I felt having it at face level made it appear that he was a character on a Kraft Box of Macoroni, but I did change it. In Freelancing it's really important to comply with the clients requests even though as artists we have wilder ideas! The company was totally satisfied with the changes made, and so I live to create another piece of artwork for a great company.

Corporate Caricature for Whole Foods Corp

I was told that this Exec was retiring, had massive forearms, was a Packers fan who loved golf.

BET 106 & Park Video Music Show

These are two of seven caricatures I was commissioned to do for BET's 106 & Park Music show. T Pain and Jay Z were two of my faves so I posted them here

cartoon for Exaggerated Features Magazine

Theres a fine line between drawing what the client ACTUALLY looks like vs. drawing what the client THINKS they look like.

Book cover for my Subwaysurfing Book Vo1 2

Editorial cartoon for The Wave Newspaper

Editorial cartoons for The Wave Newspaper Far Rockaway

Trader Joes Sign

One of the great things about Trader Joe's besides the friendly service and the great food that you cant find anywhere else, is the fantastic hand painted signs that they commission artists to do from time to time. > I got an opportunity to paint one for their Hewlett location when trying out for a job. My assignment was to paint a catchy sign for their Trail Mix Product> I was given the copy and got immediately to work. They loved the sign, but couldn't hire me at the moment. I'd jump at the chance for working with them again, maybe better luck next time. and by the way, that Trail Mix tastes REALLY great!!!

I painted this sign directly on blackboard using paint markers of various thick nesses and even included a caricature of the stores Captain! He really got a kick out of that.

Character Design for Designomotion.com

Character Design for Wiremonkey Films "Chipmunk Vs. Warrior" animated short

Corporate Gift Caricature For Kraft Foods Corp

Cambridge Financial Company

"FIND YOUR FLAVOR" Champaign for Absolut Vodka

Subwaysurfer Gift Caricature Section

I frequently get requests from clients to do gift caricatures for business clients, friends, and love ones. I incorporate a person's favorite hobby, sayings, or aspirations, into the caricature once I gather all the info. Above all when Im doing this type of work I steer away from the SXTREME caricature style that i love, and instead make them look ...er... "better" than they look!
Here are a few examples of that work.

Exaggerated Features Magazine Article and Pictures

This caricature was used to accompany an article I wrote for the Caricature Industry magazine, "Exaggerated Features". I included additional illustrations for the captions as well, but space did not allow to print everything. Oh, well, that's how publishing is.
This is my second article I wrote for Exaggerated Features( I wrote/illustrated one previously in 2006 on "How to Subway Surf featured here also.) and I feel honored to be in it, especially when I consider the amount of raw talent the organization has among its membership. They like me! they really like me! sniff.... sob....whimper...
This Magazine is printed by the NCN The National Caricaturists Network
Sorry, ya gotta be a member to get it!
www.caricature.org

WPSC 88.7 FM The Morning Blend Promotional Flyer

Promotional advertisinf Flyer I was commissioned for by the DJ's of The Morning Blend Radio program. Great assignment where I got a chance to caricature all of the zany hosts of the show.

Character Design For Caricature Artist Alison Gelbman and "Butchie" Da Dog Character Design

Caricature Artist, ALison Gelbman at www.caricatureexpress.com has one of those personalities that practically "beg" to be animated. I plan on doing a short feature around her character one of these days and it took me months to come up with the perfect character design for her She goes by the moniker, "the Nice caricature artist" but can be pretty nasty sometimes based on mood.
Butchie, my dog, is another character that begs to be animated, and I chose toanimate his PERSONALITy... if that makes sense_ rather than do a literal exaggeration of hi. I like this design because its nice and comfact and i can see myself doing it EASILY something I learned the HARD way working with various animation producers.

backgrounds for "Castro's Funeral" Animated film for snidetv.com