Caricature commission

[JyonnyNovice]

Hi guys! I am taking this (unpaid) commission for my barber shop, they will put it up on their wall (presuming they don't hate it!) and maybe I can get some business out of it. I'll toss in the reference photo's too, although I have not really drilled in to capturing the likeness yet, so they still don't look exactly like themselves yet - when I get to painting with value I will put my effort into getting the likeness exact. Mainly looking for any crits about the composition, shapes, character designs or any ways I could improve the idea and make it funnier. (or anything else I didn't think of!)








I started off having the big guy turning to look at the camera, and whilst not looking shaved a massive bald stripe down the clients head, but I could get it clear enough so I changed to him holding the massive gardening shears. Right now I'm having the lady hold a blowtorch, since it looks a bit like a hairdryer, and there is a gas pipe and the cannister tucked under the desk. I'm going to try today to change her pose and have her holding the blowtorch up and squeezing the trigger to jet some flame from it buuuut, I'm not sure about the blowtorch thing altogether (she is the owner of the shop, I want it to be funny but don't want to do something too extreme with her!)


Thanks for looking!