Simplistic and Cartoony Is What She Wanted... [artwork?]

[the_gneech]

I try not to mix my job with my work, but a coworker latched onto me and wouldn't let me go until I promised her I'd do a cariacature of her Chinese friend/real estate agent for $20 so she could give it to him as a Christmas present.

Unfortunately, the only picture she had of him was a tiny thumbnail in a newspaper ad. You can tell he's Asian and has a fairly wide jawline, and that's about it. So I went for "generic but hopefully not too stereotyped Chinese guy" and came up with this. NOTE: The scanner ate most of the color, particularly in the reds and yellows. He did have skin-tone and bushes behind the house, once upon a time.



Oh well, I hope she likes it.

-The Gneech

Comments

[ex-space-wo.livejournal.com]

You should have drawn him as a "South China Tiger".

kinda looks like a cross between Monty Hall and Don Ho...

[mammallamadevil.livejournal.com]

and I think she's going to love it!

MLD

Re: kinda looks like a cross between Monty Hall and Don Ho...

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

But if he's not a "ho" (wrong sex) or a "don" (no Mafia connection), then he may be nothing other than "of the Asian persuasion"...

*hehehe!!!*

[kylet.livejournal.com]

I think one thing I particularly like is I always find ethnicity hard to do without being relentlessly stereotypical, esp cartoonywise, but it's pretty easy to tell he's Asian here.

Keep us posted on what she thinks ^.^

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *^.^*

She liked it, although she did say that it "only sorta" looked like him.

Well duh!

-The Gneech

[kamau-d-lyon.livejournal.com]

When you get pressed like that you do what you can with what you're given. I've seen people (at tourist traps) pay a lot more for less. All things considered I think you did fine.