DOUG SHANNON caricature artist

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

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Web Caricature / Silicon Valley

By dougshannon • Dec 26th, 2008 • Category: BLOGPOST, CARICATURE ILLUSTRATIONS, Latest Post

An anonymous geek/poet from Silicon Valley hired me to illustrate a Dr. Suess parody he wrote for the web. Here’s a caricature of Yahoo’s Jerry Yang. See the whole thing at Tech Crunch.



Holiday Party / Woodside

By dougshannon • Dec 20th, 2008 • Category: BLOGPOST, Birthday Parties, EVENT, Grad Nights, LIVE DIGITAL, TRADESHOW, Uncategorized, Up Close and Personal, teen

The Harmans have me every year for their huge, amazing gathering of family and friends, to draw digital caricatures for the kids and teens mostly, with an occasional Santa. Subjects can download jpegs of their caricatures at this link.



Company HCompany Holiday Party / South San Francisco

By dougshannon • Dec 19th, 2008 • Category: BLOGPOST, Company Event, EVENT

Judging from the Prudential Realty group I drew caricatures for at Oyster Point, the real estate market is back. Lots of smiles here, mortgage rates are dropping, God bless us every one!



Trade Show / San Francisco

By dougshannon • Dec 17th, 2008 • Category: BLOGPOST, LIVE DIGITAL, TRADESHOW, Trade Shows, Uncategorized, teen

Falcon Electric had me at their Moscone booth for a day of the ASCB show to boost traffic with my live digital caricatures. As you can see by the photos in the slideshow, mission accomplished. Subjects can download soft copies of their caricatures HERE.



Holiday Party / Napa

By dougshannon • Dec 15th, 2008 • Category: BLOGPOST, Company Event, EVENT, Winery

The French Laundry throws an annual party for all its foodie friends and they invited me to draw caricatures. Here are two shy lovelies. I also drew their parents too, and they were pretty good looking themselves,



Company Holiday Party / San Francisco

By dougshannon • Dec 15th, 2008 • Category: BLOGPOST, Company Event, EVENT

Saltbranding dreams up brand identities for the products we buy—”Vista” for Microsoft for example. They took over a room at the E&O Trading Company for the evening, where I drew caricatures. This picture demonstrates why I need to be careful about drawing women in the nude—the guy often looks happier about it than she does.



Company Holiday Party / Santa Clara

By dougshannon • Dec 15th, 2008 • Category: BLOGPOST, Company Event, EVENT

Owens Corning threw a kids holiday party, so I drew caricatures here—about 65 kids in three hours.



Private Party / San Francisco

By dougshannon • Dec 15th, 2008 • Category: BLOGPOST, Company Event, EVENT

This was a combination of business acquaintances and friends holiday party in a south-of-market highrise. The caricature pictured here is a lovely lady who is holding her Tony the tiger by the tail.



Company Holiday Party / San Francisco

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

Catalyst Biosciences is probably one of a handful of biotech companies that can get funding in this economic climate, and they threw a party. This caricature was my fave of the evening. Sigh…oh, to be young  and cute and brilliant and in on the ground floor!



Commission Caricature / Baltimore

By dougshannon • Dec 12th, 2008 • Category: BLOGPOST, CARICATURE ILLUSTRATIONS, Latest Post

These two ladies have a radio show in Baltimore. They commissioned a caricature of themselves enacting a new venture that…