Family Portrait

I've been meaning to post this for a long time now. This is an oil painting caricature I did for my parents for Christmas. It was odd painting in oils again after such a long break, but I think it eventually started coming back to me.


I was really pleased with the likenesses. I was scared that I would never be satisfied with a drawing of my parents. I've always found the better I know someone, the harder it is for me to draw a caricature of them that I'm happy with. Glad this turned out well!

NBC caricatures at the Rockefeller Plaza X-mas party

Much has happened in the last few weeks. I've moved to Brooklyn! WOOOOO!!!

And I just did a caricature job for NBC's Rockefeller x-mas tree lighting party. Here are my two favorite caricatures from the night, along with a lovely photo of the tree. It was a great event.





I also updated my website so be sure to take a look http://www.vanessaappleby.com/
I'm still making minor revisions to the site, so let me know if you have any sort of suggestions.

The lady who hired me at NBC was awesome and said she'd forward my resume to the motion graphics department. Hopefully something comes of that because I could really use the steady work! Wish me luck!

Some Silly Faces and The Continuing Epic Quest for Employment

So it's been far too long. Apologies...

I actually had a job for a while! Hooray! I was working at Flickerlab doing clean up and a little animating here and there for Hooked on Phonics. It was AWESOMMMMEEEEEE. I made friends! Woohoo! Now that's over and I'm back to the same place I was only 2 months ago. I'm trying to resume an internship at Curious, but this time as a stop-motion intern (which is something they don't normally have). Hopefully that will pan out for me, or if I could be so lucky, perhaps I can get another real paying job in animation. Either way, it's a little disappointing but I knew this would happen eventually.

I've had a few caricature commissions here and there over the last 2 months. I just finished one today for a woman in New Jersey as a thank you gift to the groomsmen for her wedding. Check it out.


Some of the colors are oversaturated since I created it with a CMYK color profile, but you get the idea here. I spent way too long on this one, but I rather like it.

Soooooo if anyone has any potential ideas for how to go about getting another job or where I should be looking at the moment, don't hesitate to share!