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Greetings
Brighton, welcome
to the home-made
website of
Mr Sketchum,
London
caricaturist
'for
hire'; my
ordinary name is Alfie Deliss, but please - call me
Mr
Sketchum!
Over
the past nineteen years I've been booked to do
caricatures at some 2500
corporate events, weddings
and private
parties, drawing
quazillions of on-the-spot
"lightning sketches", and handing them out absolutely
free.
Here I am
(above)
in France at
a wedding at
Dick Strawbridge MBE & Angel Adorée's
château
(click
here
to enlarge & for a brief explanation),
but I'm no stranger to county-to-county trekking all
across
the
UK. From
my
'London Caricatures
HQ Nerve Centre'™, I've
been zigzagging to & from events all over Dear Old Blighty since 1999.
It's impossible
to predict what events will
be like - some can be pretty surreal! I'm fortunate
to have the opportunity to
foster a good atmosphere
in some weird & wonderful places.
Mix'n'mingling,
working table-to-table over dinners and
sometimes
seated from one spot, all I need is pens,
paper and a smile (I can work with fake).
Guests
join in as the subjects, as sardonic commentators,
and as spectators of the super-likenesses taking
shape in nothing flat...and then with a few
wisecrack-assisted penstrokes are presented with
eye-popping party gifts - which they all just played
a major part in
creating, and simply by having fun!
"That's the
best cara...caraciktcha I've ever
had! Out of all the caracikitchas I've ever
ever had!"
A beaming
Jamie Redknapp,
Wentworth Golf Club
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"Not bad! You should
think about doing it for a living!!"
Johnny Ball, genial
mathematical showman & television
Legend,
Grosvenor
House
07719 262736
As well as giving their verdicts on my
cartoon
portraits (I don't mind! *he says*),
guests adore rejoicing when
they've come out well as well as ribbing
one-another over who looks hilarious,
making for spontaneous cheeky repartee that in a funny old way
can
really bring people together.
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"Everyone
loved your "works of art". We were really impressed with the
jaw-dropping likenesses, long after you'd gone they were making the rounds to howls of laughter.
Hilarious!"
Geoff & Lucy,
Brighton
"Thanks for last night
Alfie, Kim was touched to be given
such a great memento of her ten years
with the team at Hilton. Everyone had
fun & thought it was a brilliant
idea."
Alexandra Dumoulin,
Hilton Group
(about a leaving gift done for her colleagues at
their local bar)
Most of my
caricatures are of "singletons", but
naturally sometimes couples & groups want to be immortalised together. As long as I
can be sure of not getting too "tied up" with one set of guests, I'm
happy to
oblige.
If you like I can preprint graphics and/or
a message of your choice onto
each sheet of
paper I use ~ to mark the occasion, distinguish a brand, convey the
ethos of a campaign, or simply to add a stylish personal touch.
I draw on
heavy A4 laser paper, and present every
caricature inside a fancy clear splash-proof
top'n'side-opening document folder (none of that
punched plastic pocket rubbish :)
"Give
her a body like Baywatch ~ and a face like Crimewatch!!"
Anonymous
(heartily bellowed at me from the other end
of the room by a fellow at a Warburtons Bakery event)
I
aim to
please, not to punish! In actual fact with some people whatever I draw
- the real thing is always
funnier! In all sreiousness though,
the
truth is by nature I favour ladies,
capturing likenesses
that are fun but often also quite kind.
It's the gentlemen who
happily
supply me with comedy raw material, just by
being naturally amusing.
"What
is it he does again?"
Mr
Sketchum's mum
By rapidly
establishing the
relative proportions, then injecting only as much broad-brush
exaggeration as is needed for emphasis or
effect, my caricature style skips
a fine line between realism & farce.
Picking up on and highlighting those fleeting
but uniquely characteristic faces my subjects
pull, I create
likenesses
that hit the mark so well they look
more like you than you do!!
~ My
"live" caricatures suit any occasion (although
I've not worked at a séance -
yet...) ~ Here are the three types of event that I sketch at the
most: ~
Weddings
are fab, and my fave event to
attend. I get a buzz going, and provide personal
keepsakes by mix'n'mingling during
drinks,
winding my way around the wedding breakfast
tables,
and when things become more of a party
I'm in high demand since I
make guests crack up so much.
"Even superb wedding photographs
can’t capture the sides to you that Mr Sketchum's
sketches do!"
~ Me
For a little more on
wedding
caricatures,
click here
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"Hi
Alfie
~
Me
and
Al
can't
thank
you
enough!
You
are
brilliant
and
your
sketches
are
Hilare!
Every
single
guest
loved
your
work
and
thanks
too
for
squeezing
my
two
little
pest
sisters
in
at the end!
Thanks
again
so
much
~
Tanya
and
Alan
:-)"
CONTACT:
Big
parties mean I can methodically "work the room",
"pinball style" (!) by animating and bouncing
off group after group. Smaller gatherings are a
treat, as they're good-natured affairs where I'm
amongst family, friends and colleagues who'll
get on famously anyway - so with
me there
they have a
riot!
More on
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caricatures
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As
well as adding ice-breaking
laughter to your event, I supply original talking points, personalised artwork (with your branding if that's
useful), and
function as a 'human marketing tool'
(!)
by assisting you in creating events which
simultaneously entertain, generate awareness of, and reflect well on
your
organisation.
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"Could you stop flaring your
nostrils at me just for a few seconds?"
Mr Sketchum
"How
sweet! I put my face in your hands!"
Andrew Logan,
jewellery sale, his place
I
took my first booking
to sketch at a
madcap
charidee
"Bachelor
and Spinster Ball"
whilst still studying at
Chelsea College
of Art.
Thanks to the
outré mêlée
of carousing Débs
and their potted Delights
sketching
amid the chaos wasn't boring
and soon, *ahem*, my magnetic personality rose
to the fore.
Now,
with nineteen years' full-time experience
as a "live" (on-the-spot/not quite dead yet)
caricature artist for hire,
delightfully wicked sketches, and an incredibly
pleasant, modest personality, I've achieved total mastery at the fine Art
of...almost managing to get out of the way of waiters!
"Find a job you love and you'll never have to
work again."
Confucius
(551-479 BC)
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