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Mother’s Day is sooner than you think, so why not make your Mum smile with a lifelike and vibrant portrait hand-drawn by artist Pen Jones.
I’m late to the Valentines Day bandwagon here, but here’s a wee caricature commission from last year…
Joy’s story is one of 6 people I’ve illustrated for a recent commission detailing home carers’ struggles during the covid pandemic…
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One from the recent archive of xmas gifts here, this one a portrait of my girlfriend’s aunt and her brill family that live in Portugal.
Coolest Things I did in 2020- A Self Portrait
Presenting baby Rudy- his first year. If you or a loved one would appreciate a cartoon portrait with a story to tell, get in touch!
As I’m working on some long commissions that are taking their sweet time I thought I’d look back through the archive today. I found this
Give a good boss a good goodbye Caricature!
A caricature of a family in one of their happy places
Hi 2021, Pen Jones here, good to be back! The coffee is on and I’m just getting revved up to do my first few commissions of the year.
As tumultuous as this year has been, it has been a great chance to work on my caricature style
The Cartoonist life can be a bit unpredictable, or at least erratic. three weeks may go by with nary a pen raised in work, then the weekend rolls in and you find yourself drawing a caricature every five minutes for 6 hours straight!
Yesterday was such a day, tramping all across the west midlands in the service of the giant posca marker in the sky. Read on to find out more…
Caricaturist for Hire I be, and caricaturing at your party is my game! Check out these pics from last summer’s parties that I had neglected
Colour or Black and White, Caracatures, Caractures, Charivstures, even charcuturies. My drawings have been called many things through the years and I sometimes wonder if
Caricaturing at Weddings is back in a big way. After the dearth of work for a live caricaturist that coronavirus brought, I’ve been back caricaturing at weddings and it’s almost as though nothing happened! Follow the link to hear more…
Portraits can tell an interesting story about how the sitter feels, if you capture your subject at the right time. In this blogpost I’ll be talking about the experience of drawing caricature portraits
for Friction Arts’ project ‘How Were You’
Cartoon Commissions have becoming a big part of my artistic practice of late, what with all the inexplicable indoorsiness that this last year has brought.
With that in mind I thought I’d explain a bit about how I do what I do when I’m not dolled up and at a Wedding; Cartoon Commissions.
I’m pretty lucky, not everyone has a workplace that a cute baby charmingly toddles into! Let’s delve…
Visual Minutes is the art of creatively capturing information at events in a colourful, fun and dynamic way. In today’s blogpost I’m talking about one of my most recent visual minutes gigs and how my drawings made the recording of the event a little bit more exciting! To find out more, read on on my website…
As I’ve been doing this for more than a decade I thought it would be useful to customers for me to write a quick guide to having someone draw caricatures at your wedding. Here goes!
This week’s blog; some of the weirder anecdotes from my caricaturing life…
Come to my blog to keep reading about one particular couple who I caricatured at a Birmingham Wedding and who really liked their drawing….
Read my latest blog post on my website to find out how I ended up as a caricaturist of all things!
Happy Monday Caricature fiends! As a continuation of my ‘ICONS’ series, spanning musical icons from the past and present, I’ve done a false colour caricature portrait of Canadian rapper Drake, otherwise known as ‘Champagne Papi’, ‘6 God’ or ‘Drizzy’. Uniquely for someone so famous I know ABSOLUTELY NONE of his music, but to accompany my caricature I CAN talk about various comedy sketches and bits that have referred to him….