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Caricatures from Photos

What you need: good photos, good ideas, and $70 (one person) or $130 (two people in the same drawing).

How does it work?

1. Send me an email stating your idea. For example, “I want you to draw me jumping over the Grand Canyon on Apples, my Appaloosa.” Right there into the email text, copy two photos of your face, one front shot and one in either profile or a three-quarter view. Send email to: khilden@mindspring.com

2. I’ll respond right away. I’ll let you know if the pictures you sent are clear enough for me to work from. The pictures have to be very good—and current--because I’ve never seen you in real life. Needless to say, I will love your idea for this project.

3. We agree to go ahead with this project. You choose the paper size, either 8x10 or 8 1⁄2 x11 and you choose either color or black/white, same price. To confirm, you send me $35 for one person/$65 for two people. At this point, you may prefer to pay the full amount (70/130), in which case you would also send me either a stamped self-addressed bubble mailer or your FedEx number.

4. I will email you a pencil drawing of the face(s) to make sure I got the likeness. Usually I hit it right away. If you want an adjustment, I will fix whatever needs fixing and email you version #2. Once you approve the face(s), we move onto the composition of the whole drawing and work it out through emailing as we did with the face(s). This process takes about a week. It works very well. It means that you know exactly what you’re paying for, because for the final drawing I will trace the pencil version on my light table.

5. Then you mail me the balance and either a stamped self-addressed bubble mailer or your FedEx number. As soon as these arrive, the drawing will be in the mail.