Karen was a chirpy transport planner whom I met through work several years ago. I say “was”, because her colleagues engaged me to draw her as a goodbye gift! They gave me the instructions in comforting, no-room-for-ambiguity civil-servant style:
We’re aiming for a caricature of Karen (our outgoing lunch-buddy) doing a flying pose (Karen-pose.jpg) using 2 [...]

Muhammed Tork wrote me all the way from Egypt:
“i’m a computer guy working as systems administrators spending around 12 hours doing my work in front of a pc in server’s room :)”
I never for a second doubted this as he answered my emails within seconds, in spite of the time difference!!!
He sent me this [...]

Dr. Richard is a good friend of our family. Apparently, him and my dad hit it off at the gym and the rest, as they always say, was history! Since that fateful day, we have had many meals together, and the good doctor never fails to let his bubbly nature put a smile on the [...]

I’ve never been a girly girl. So when the Benefit Cosmetics people engaged me to caricature their customers in conjunction with the launch of their new face powder, it was like being teleported to another planet!
I was quite apprehensive because I find it really hard to caricature women (sensitively) in comparison to men. I think [...]

Aji means the world to his sister, Bhavna, and she wanted to get him a sweet birthday present! Suggestions she gave:
1) he loves transformers. perhaps you could draw him wearing a transformer t-shirt/boxers. (you dont have to, but boxers would be funny)
2) He’s turning 33

3) he loves all forms of alcohol but i [...]

This is from the set of drawings I did for the medical products company that wanted to reward its good-performers with caricatures. The last one I posted was Paritosh the Cowboy. This one doesn’t have a theme though, it’s just… Jeff, the Guy from Finance.

A medical products company wanted to reward its high-performing staff with individual caricatures. The caricatures had different themes, such as “struggling warrior”, “we are the champions”, etc. The theme for Paritosh was “come from behind cowboy” (!!!)

Unintended references to Brokeback Mountain aside, I really liked how Paritosh’s one turned out! In particular I like his [...]

I really like this one!
Firstly, some people’s faces are just easier (and more fun) to caricature than others.

Secondly, I really enjoy drawing muscles. My client specifically wanted me to draw his friend’s head on ahhhh-nuld’s bah-day and very helpfully provided this pic:

Okay, so this isn’t a caricature, but thought you might enjoy it… (After all I am open to general freelance illustration work as well!)

A friend of a friend who’s part of the Singapore Film Society organised the Japanese Film Festival some time back and wanted to flash a picture to the audience before every [...]

My good friends Shin Bin and Wan Lin decided to make use of all those music lessons they’d had growing up and form a clarinet-piano duo! Naturally, to be serious about it, they needed a stack of business cards, so they asked if I could draw them, draw them…

They’re called the Tan Tan Duo because [...]

Jane (top left) was leaving Burger King Singapore and her colleagues wanted a farewell gift for her. I was engaged to draw a black and white caricature of this very sweet family of six.

Since I was asked to do the drawing on the specific Burger King-cum-Singapore landmarks background, which came as a jpg, I decided [...]

“My colleague Aga will be sending you the reference pictures tonight/tomorrow.  The couple you will be drawing are Sneha and Shiv.”

Thus started this most Mission Impossible-like caricature brief.

I managed to read the following before the email self-destructed deleted:
“Overall, we wanted to picture both of them wearing Indian clothes with the topic of the drawing being [...]

Yan Han wanted to give his girlfriend Lili a caricature for her 21st birthday. (Altogether now – awwwwwwww…) Apparently, he’d seen my drawing of Ming Yi the Material Monk and thought it was cute.

I think the couple look REALLY alike! Hairstyle, eyes, lips… and her nose is like a smaller version of his (at least [...]

Manny is from Hawaii and got to know about drawmedrawme.com through our Facebook group! He wanted me to draw a colour caricature of him to put on his business card. I was really excited as this was my first overseas client, and also my first colour job.
(I also felt it was quite coincidental as my [...]

Kaye’s friend, Mari, was going to have her ROM on the 6th of August and she wanted to get an ROM gift for the happy couple. Mari’s fiance (well, husband, now) is Finn, which as you can see gave the caricature a great headline :)
These were the two main pictures I worked from:

I had a [...]

The long-suffering life partner is a huge wrestling (and WWE) fan.  I know, I don’t get it either, but I think its appeal must be like Japanese dorama or Days of Our Lives… for boys. I think.
Anyway, he’s always asking me to draw wrestlers, so I thought why not start with one half of the [...]

Well so, after the first RRFM in July, which was foreign-worker themed, I would say the second RRFM which I went for in August was spectacles and moles themed. Because out of the six people I drew, five had specs and three had moles. The girl above, Avalyn, is the only one without specs (though [...]

Lately I’ve been pretty obsessed with the singer Katy Perry. This, despite her fan base comprising almost entirely 12 and 13 year old tween girls. While she got famous (and A WHOLE LOT OF FLAK) for singing “I Kissed A Girl”, I think her other songs are much nicer, and urge you to go check [...]

Murli’s roommate, Pat, was having her birthday and Murlelle thought it’d be nice to get her a caricature with her dog, Buddy.
As you can see from the photo, Pat is not merely a jetsetter but a real adventurer, and has already visited a third of all the places any self-respecting globetrotter needs to see before [...]

My good friend Shuting’s colleague, Sourabh, had his birthday recently, and the office wanted to get him a pressie. She suggested I could draw him with his wife and incorporate an Indiana Jones theme, since he’s a huge fan! Immediately I knew this was going to be a REALLY FUN assignment.

Is it just me or [...]