DOUG SHANNON caricature artist

Event Entertainment and Gift Illustration for San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond.

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Archive for September, 2008

Corporate Event / San Francisco

By dougshannon • Sep 12th, 2008 • Category: BLOGPOST, Company Event, EVENT

Loopnet threw a bash at AT&T park for 250 of their employees, a bright eyed and happy bunch, most of whom were born right about the time I started drawing caricatures. Here are a few of my favorite “quick sketches”. There were also a few videos taken at the end and I will post them [...]



Google This!

By dougshannon • Sep 10th, 2008 • Category: Corporate Events

Corporate planners are always looking for something new, so when Maratz Travel was planning how to entertain 2000 of Google’s guests and employees they hired Doug to draw live digital caricatures at their Mountainview campus. If the length of the queue was any indicator, it was a big success—the line literally stretched around the cornner and out of sight. Google staff wound up helping organize things (hard to do when you’re drawing). Check out this blogpost to see more.



Human Resource Caricature / Silicon Valley

By dougshannon • Sep 9th, 2008 • Category: BLOGPOST, CARICATURE ILLUSTRATIONS

This mammoth HR department throws several off sites a year where new hires are introduced to the company and each other. These caricatures are based on personal info gathered beforehand, so every picture tells a story of some kind, and it is that much easier for everybody to get to know each other.



Club Function / Menlo Park

By dougshannon • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: BLOGPOST, EVENT

The Menlo Country Club had me drawing caricatures this labor day afternoon. I have a feeling this caricature will wind up on his dorm wall this fall.