Jazz@Jollylands

This weekend I will be caricaturing at the Jazz @ Jollylands festival in Kilternan. It should be a great day and the weather is promising to be beautiful. So why not come down, watch some Jazz and have your caricature drawn ! Tickets and details can be found here - Jazz@Jollylands

By attending you will also be supporting a great charity, The Sunshine home, who are doing some fantastic work. So why not come along but don't forget to buy your tickets online as they are not available on the door !

Ellen Degeneres

Apparently, Ellen Degeneres is not a big fan of caricatures so members of the ISCA have submitted there take on Ellen that will hopefully be submitted to the show. Here is my effort.

Couple of Wedding Caricatures

These are 2 recent wedding commissions. Both are wedding gifts from friends to the bride and groom.

Al Pacino Sketch

Here is an ink sketch of Al Pacino in scarface. I don't do a lot of ink sketching but really enjoy it when I do. I must do more !

Premier Group event

I had great fun caricaturing at the Premier Group's summer party this weekend. Everyone enjoyed the caricatures and I had a great time as well ! If you would like me to caricature at your corporate event just drop me a line or an email.

Gift Commission - Process

I have just finished off this 8 person commission for the website of Temple Street Childrens Hospital. This charity do some fantastic work and I urge you to visit their website and offer any support that you can. I have an event next month with Temple Street where I hope to bring so fun to their Gala fundraiser.

I have shown below the process that I go though when creating a commission.

First off is a rough Layout, then a pencil draft - this is sent to the client and if changes are required then this is the last point to do it. I then Ink everything and finally go to color.

Bacack Obama Sketch

I thought it was time to have another shot at the President of the United States. I really struggled to get this sketch the way I wanted it. Not 100% but reasonably pleased with it in the end.

Steven Speilberg and George Lucas

Watercolour studio piece of 2 of Hollywood's favourite directors. Click for a closer look.

Seth Rogen

One of my favorite comedians, Seth Rogen. Watercolour.

Cameron Diaz

Pencil sketch for today, the rather lovely Cameron Diaz. Click the image for a closer look.

New pop up banner

I just picked up my new pop up banner today and am really please with how it turned out. It's a great tool for advertising while I am at events. Thanks to the guys at Hadleigh print for the prompt turn-around !

Robert Pattinson - Acrylic

My attempt to caricature the ladies favorite... Edward, I mean Robert. It's acrylic on canvas, 16x12. C& C Welcome !

Couple of recent Commissions

I'm keeping busy with commissions at the moment, here are a couple that I finished this week. The runner is Watercolour and the Hen caricature is done with Artstix.

Gerard Depardieu - Acrylic on Board

I realise that the likeness is lacking here, but thought I would post anyway !

A little help please

This is a request for a little help from the regular visitors to my blog and to those who stumble across and enjoy what you find. As you will see from previous posts I have recently set-up my new website and I would be eternally grateful if you could please offer up a link on your website or blog to my new site. If I don't have your link in my sidebar already please let me know by leaving a comment and I will pop one in. The new site is -

www.mattrydercaricature.com

Thanks so much. More posts to follow soon.

Brian Cowen

As I live in Ireland, it's only right that I should have a caricature of Brian Cowen in the collection ! Hope you like it.

New Markettes, New Artstix =

Just a couple of warm up caricatures before my gig tonight. These are from memory of a couple of people I saw in Dublin earlier. As much a colour and line variation experiment as anything else. Plus I got a brand new box of Dixon Markettes delivered yesterday and a nice big box of prismacolor Artstix !

Leonardo Dicaprio - Acrylic on Board

Based this on the sketch below, C&C on welcome

Leonardo Dicaprio

I went to see Inception last night and was very impressed ! Here is a 30 minute sketch of Leo. I may paint this one. Post a comment and let me know what you think.

The Big Lebowski

Big News

Well, the decision has been made, and as of this Friday, Matt Ryder Caricature is a full time business. It has been a hard decision but I feel now is the time, and what better place than Ireland. I have been toying with the idea of full time for a long time, and have been doing it as a second career for way too long, So...... lets give it everything I have got, and come out smiling :-)

Wedding caricature

I am pleased to say I have had a busy couple of weeks caricaturing, and here is the latest wedding commission hot off the drawing table.

Today I spent a few hours at a kids summer camp, teaching the basics of caricaturing and cartooning, it was great fun, and the kids loved it !

New Self Caricature

I will be using this for all my new promotional stuff, hope you like it :)

Latest Wedding caricature commission

This is my most recent commission and the first image scanned on my brand new A3 scanner ! If you would like a caricature for your wedding, or a caicaturist at your wedding, anywhere in Ireland just drop me a call or email and I will give you a quote, go on, what are you waiting for !

New website

Finally, I have an official website. Check it out and let me know what you think !
http://www.mattrydercaricature.com

Tilda Swinton

Watercolour on paper

Birthday gift commission

Here is a birthday gift commission that I just finished up and delivered.
I tried to experiment a little with the colour, and was quite pleased with how the results turned out.
If you would like to commission a caricature for any occasion, be it a birthday, wedding, anniversary, confirmation or whatever else, just drop me an email or give me a call !

Harry and Fireman Sam

Here is a caricature of Harry and Fireman Sam which I gave him for his birthday. Pleased to say he liked it, and apparently it is now hanging above his bed.

This was done in watercolour.

Settled in Dublin, bring on the gigs !

It's been a long time since my last post, so apologies, but I have been a busy busy boy ! We have settled into the Dublin way of life now, and are happy in our choices so far !

So now I'm all sorted, have my bearings, all my art equipment is here from Dubai (Thankyou DSA Shipping), I have a car, and I am excited about drawing again, I am open to new gigs and commissions.

I am available for Weddings, corporate days, kids parties, anniversaries, bbq's, or whatever else you like, and anywhere in Ireland. I'm also accepting new commissions, these make a great gift for any occasion wether it be a wedding present, a birthday gift, a leaving present or anything else ! These can be done in watercolor, acrylic or block color. So, give me a bell, or drop me an email and we will work it out !

Here are a few samples of recent commissions and live work, some of these have been posted already, but I am reposting here as examples....