Specialties
I'm great with kids of all ages from newborns to the young at heart, I bring out the child in all of your guests, and give them a gift they will treasure and remember you by! I also do "live" event drawing for concerts, conventions, courtrooms, etc. for those occasions when you can't bring a camera into an event.
My color commissions are vibrant chalk pastels, perfect for someone who appreciates an artistic touch, they're perfect matted and framed.
History
Established in 1990.
Caricatures by Sean has been in business since 1990, doing cartoons, illustrations, and caricature commissions and events.
While mostly available on the weekends for in-person events, the Covid lockdown has forced the business to do a lot more with online options and is available almost any day of the week with enough advance notice.
We now take international commissions and events virtually, mostly through zoom, but we've done events with other teleconferencing software as well.
We are predominantly a traditional media shop, but we can do commissions straight from/to digital with enough lead time. This side of the business is still a work-in-progress.
Meet the Business Owner: Sean L.
I went to SVA to study cartooning, and in my sophomore year I took a caricature class with Mad Magazine artist, Sam Viviano and soon fell in love with that art form, meeting modern greats like Steve Brodner, and Bill Plympton and even studied with Hanoch Piven and Jonathan ("Zapiro") Shapiro!
After SVA, I illustrated and did cartoons for publications, and caricature gigs in the NYC area, including a summer-long engagement for Guinness, drawing pub customers with their favorite pint.
I got into the corporate world through desktop publishing, multi-media, and product management while doing gigs on the side.
The Covid lockdown had an interesting silver-lining for me, I couldn't draw at the Art Students League studio anymore, so while looking online I discovered a group of caricaturists who organized multiple online drawing sessions each week. They've been an amazing support group and artistic inspiration for me, and helped me set up my business - I can now accept credit cards!