DOUG SHANNON Caricature Artist

Nonprofit Party / Sebastopol

dougshannon — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:15:33 +0000

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Food For Thought is a great organization that provides meals and other assistance to Aids victims. Their annual bash is a big thank you to the volunteers who make it happen. Here are a few of my favorite caricatures.

Club Function / Lafayette

dougshannon — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:12:38 +0000

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Richard at A Sound Explosion hired me and a second artist, Zach Trenholm to daw caricatures a Lafayette health club’s annual open house. It was a huge crowd and kept us both busy all night.

Company Picnic / San Francisco

dougshannon — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:49:30 +0000

Crissy Field has to be the toughest venue for a caricature artist in the city, with no shade and lots of wind. But CCI, a general contractor firm made the best of it with a great band, pictured here, and great catering, along with Franco’s Family Fun Tattoos and me. Here are a couple of my best caricatures of the afternoon.

Trade Show Event / San Jose

dougshannon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:09:13 +0000

Google hosted a couple thousand clients on their Mountainview campus and brought in Angie Jordan and myself to draw live digital caricatures. I love the 60″ screen they provided although some of the noses looked a little largish up there. This was the biggest event I can remember doing and the line stretched as far as the eye can see. I found myself leaving out a lot of details, including the theme stuff I had planned, in order to move things along. These pix average 5-6 minutes each. Wish I had more photos but I was too busy to deal with that. At one point someone shot some video, which I will post as soon as I can get it edited.

As a bonus, subjects can download soft copies of their caricatures (without the branding) at this page to be used any way they like from Facebook to coffeemugs.

BTW the gorgeous blond caricature subject below was a TV reporter from Spain with her own camera crew. It was that kind of night.

Company Party / Oakland

dougshannon — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:42:22 +0000

Sequoyah Country Club is a regular client; they have me doing caricatures every year at their employee party and funny thing, every year the lines get longer. Here are a few faves.

Private Commission

dougshannon — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:42:08 +0000

Here’s a unique caricature illustration I did for a wedding guest sign-in. It measures 24X30″ and will be framed after the reception. Note the time ribbon with milestones of the relationship. It’s been a long journey, but this state at least, finally gets it.

Since the art is digital it was easy for this client to use it elsewhere in the wedding too.

Mittzvah / San Jose

dougshannon — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:59:56 +0000

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Hannah was the star of the show at the Silver Creek Country Club in San Jose. She and her friends are crazy for sports so nearly ever caricature I did all night was soccer, basketball or lacross-themed. No complaints though, I had the privilege of drawing the charming family matriarch from South Africa without a soccer ball, and shortly afterward the sexiest pirate I ever laid a pen on.

Company Picnic / Santa Rosa

dougshannon — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:47:44 +0000

Marc Schmid and I drew caricatures for a Northbay Entertainment at a carnival sort of setup in Rohnert Park. We both drew nonstop for three hours—kids, family groups, lots of smiles here. This was my first cartoon subject, luckily I got a photo because later I would have been too busy.

Trade Show Caricature / San Jose

dougshannon — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:57:04 +0000

NewEra had me as a draw at their booth for the 2008 Share Conference. Don’t ask what it’s about, it’s crazy technical. Anyway their theme was “Integrity Agent” ala 007. I made them templates that reinforced the secret agent theme. Note the lariet holders—very nice! I was pleased to see that people wore them around at the show. As a bonus, my subjects downloaded soft copies here. You can also see the poster I did for this client here.

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Retirement Caricature

dougshannon — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:55:51 +0000

Medtronics in Santa Rosa called upon me to make two more caricature illustrations for employees who were either transferring or leaving, These were framed as gifts but also supplied in digital form for a power point portion of a sendoff meeting.