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Hi caricature world!

I just want to say that I am super honored to be on the cover of Exaggerated Features! Thanks to everyone who thought my drawings were actually funny for the last couple conventions. I always try to tell a story and make my audience laugh with every piece so hopefully you got a little chuckle out of this one. The video shows most of my process so I'm going to take this opportunity to tell some of the backstory.

When Debbie told me they were doing an article about my friends Adam English and Eric Goodwin and their music, I was so excited. Adam trained me to draw caricatures way back in 2003 and without him my life would be completely different. Probably better but, still, I owe him. I also had the pleasure of working and living with Eric in San Diego. His work melts my brain and his coloring techniques light my eyes with technicolor flames. He's cool.

With the Pokemon Go! craze in full effect I couldn't think of anything more topical and fun to draw and I figured it was a cool opportunity to put a bunch of my friends into the mix. Adam is Lickitung and Eric is Psyduck, if you're unfamiliar with the whole Pokemon thing (I was too!). Beau Hufford, Sakiko 'Satsu' Ushioda, Nate Kap, Brian Oakes and Bob Camp (not a personal friend, but a personal hero!) make up the other Pokemon. I share most of my ideas with Beau and he always makes them better and six times funnier. It was his idea to have everyone on their phones and completely ignoring all the action going on.

Behind them is the rest of the Buffalo caricature crew as the Pokemon catcher people: Bill Gallagher, Myself, and Rob Dumo. I was so lucky to grow up in Buffalo and learn from a bunch of incredible world class caricature artists. I've worked for all of them and they will all tell you how great an employee I am; always on time.

Finally, to the left, is "team Rocket" of Stacy Pierce, Matt Zitman, and Sean Favre who, besides inspiring me, have become great friends and always make me laugh. Conventions are exactly 3.4 times more fun with them around... Except for Matt.

This is my first completely digital piece. I originally planned to redo the entire thing in watercolor after sketching it out digitally, but I've been really enjoying drawing on my iPad Pro and thought what better time to jump in head first and do something I've never done before than with the cover of Exaggerated Features! Hope you guys dig it and don't figure out that I'm usually the least funny guy in the room.

Love you guys!
Jeremy

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