I’m honored to be one of the guest speakers at the 7th annual Eurocature International Festival of Caricature Art, coming up April 5-10th in Vienna, Austria! I’ll be doing a couple of talks and other fun stuff. Visit their website for information about the festival. READ MORE
Q: I’d love to take your workshop but I am concerned I do not have enough drawing skill. I’ve been doodling my whole life but I’m not a professional and my skills are still beginner level. Can I still take your class? A: The way I structure these workshops is what I call “style independent”, which also means “skill level independent”. What we are really concentrating on learning is how to “see” as much as how to draw. As a whole, I teach the class my approach to caricature, what I look for and how I see it. This applies to any style of caricature,… READ MORE
…is underway! Workshop illustration above. I’ve still got spots open in Atlanta, Amsterdam, and Washington DC, and I’ll be scheduling a few more in 2019. Check out my workshop page for all the details, and be sure to sign up for my email list in the upper right corner of this page. Those on the mailing list get a 24 advanced notice on new workshops before they are announced to the rest of the world. READ MORE
Here’s another warm up sketch from my Orlando workshop: stand up comedian Dave Attell! READ MORE
Here’s another warm up sketch from my Orlando workshop this past weekend… Lady Gaga in full on glamour mode. READ MORE
We always start the second day of the workshop with some warm up sketches. I have the class suggest a subject, then I find an image online to work from, project it on the screen, and we all spend 10-15 minutes or so drawing the subject. Here’s Barbra Streisand. READ MORE
The first of two back-to-back workshops here in Orlando is in the books. I had a terrific group that was heavy on professional live caricaturists this first weekend. That’s to be expected since you cannot throw a rock in any direction in Orlando and not have it land on a theme park property of some kind. Above is the class illustration. Since I’m spending the intervening week enjoying NOT being in Minnesota in January I’ll be posting some of the warm up sketches I did with the class. Look for one of those shortly, and throughout the week. READ MORE
It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since “The Sopranos” debuted on HBO. MAD did several pieces on the show, including a full parody by Arnie Kogen and Mort Drucker in MAD #389 (Jan 2000). I did the piece above in MAD #422 (Oct 2002) written by the late John Caldwell. Sopronos writer and Executive Producer Terrance Winter bought the original art of that from me, and talks about how cool it was to be in MAD in this article about the show’s 20th anniversary in Variety: Winter: When we got into Mad Magazine, that was the highlight for me. That said everything. The… READ MORE
Sign up for Tom's FREE newsletter:
