I don't think this guy cares about his job anymore.

[MOIDALIZE]

I challenge you not to laugh.

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/148...ction20741.jpg

[Baby Driver]

Oh gawd! (Lost the challenge).

[The Tao's Revenge]

Poor kid, that could really give her issues.

[Covered_In_Bees!]

I lost and laughed and laughed!

[Ephemera]

What do I win?

[Freudian Slit]

What DO you do when you're a caricaturist and a fat kid or person comes up to you? I imagine they generally don't (unless they have a sense of humor about it)...but...

I mean, I'd assume that most people who don't have a sense of humor about any bodily flaw would avoid the caricaturist like the plague.

[Alan Bird]

Originally Posted by Freudian Slit

What DO you do when you're a caricaturist and a fat kid or person comes up to you? I imagine they generally don't (unless they have a sense of humor about it)...but...

I mean, I'd assume that most people who don't have a sense of humor about any bodily flaw would avoid the caricaturist like the plague.

Especially when the kid looks so hopelessly miserable. I actually thought the caricature made her frown look a tad less frowny.

[cmyk]

It made that little girl look like she's 40, too.

Funny though. I'd love to see the parent's reaction.

[carnivorousplant]

Originally Posted by Aesiron

What do I win?

You gotta split it with me.

[G0sp3l]

I laughed, more at the kids face than the drawing. Still that's just wrong. I'm sure the kids parent forced the issue, but the artist should've tried to 'soften' it up a bit. I hate when adults injure kids self-esteem.

[G0sp3l]

I'm really not a pansy.

(Just wanted that on the record)

[Gatopescado]

Originally Posted by G0sp3l

I'm sure the kids parent forced the issue, but the artist should've tried to 'soften' it up a bit.

That is one turd that can't be polished.

[Hockey Monkey]

Sorry, I didn't laugh at all. The kid just looks hopelessly sad and imagining what she will feel like when she sees the picture just made me sad.

[Drunky Smurf]

Originally Posted by G0sp3l

I'm really not a pansy.

(Just wanted that on the record)

This made me laugh more than the picture of the girl.

The guy could have made the nose smaller and the eyes farther apart in the picture and that might have made the picture less "fatty". That's what I would have done in his situation.

[Freudian Slit]

Originally Posted by Alan Bird

Especially when the kid looks so hopelessly miserable. I actually thought the caricature made her frown look a tad less frowny.

I think if it didn't make her look so old it wouldn't have been so awful. And if she wasn't so unhappy looking in the actual shot.

I'd go with Hockey Monkey's assessment.

[faithfool]

No laughing here either. I just felt sorry for everyone involved.

[Snooooopy]

"Hey, kid, how about you stop GLOWERING at me?"

[PapSett]

Nope, not laughing. Add me to the camp that feels very, very sorry for that child.

Going thru life fat sucks, and to be poked fun at like that... well, it just makes it 100 times worse.

[Boyo Jim]

You know who else was a street artist, right?

HITLER!

[MoodIndigo1]

I was surprised, but I didn't laugh. Most street artists try to respect (and often) flatter the people whose pictures they're painting/drawing.

The little girl is not too happy about the procedure, otherwise she'd be rather pretty. She's still at an age where she has baby fat. It's unnecessarily cruel to treat her that way, and I hope that picture was photoshopped.

Otherwise, the OP is right in the sentiment expressed in the title of this thread.

[carnivorousplant]

Originally Posted by MoodIndigo1

I hope that picture was photoshopped.

That was my thought. He probably drew her as a Fairy Princess.

[Nzinga, Seated]

Funny. As. Hell.

[Lucky 13]

I thought the little girl looked so sad. She did have a bit of cuteness about her, which the artist could have emphasized, rather than making her look like an angry 40-year-old.

[Tapioca Dextrin]

Sad? She looked pissed. I'm pretty sure she was thinking "this is crappy street artist #7 that I've tried today. If he draws another frakkin' fairy princess, I'm gonna go postal".

[Heffalump and Roo]

Originally Posted by Tapioca Dextrin

Sad? She looked pissed. I'm pretty sure she was thinking "this is crappy street artist #7 that I've tried today. If he draws another frakkin' fairy princess, I'm gonna go postal".

OK, now that was funny.

[carnivorousplant]

Originally Posted by Tapioca Dextrin

If he draws another frakkin' fairy princess, I'm gonna go postal".

[NinetyWt]

FWIW, I didn't laugh either.

[Baby Driver]

I'm surprised by how many respondents were troubled/saddened by this pic. I'm usually a bleeding heart but this one didn't trip any wire. The kid is glowering, and I imagined the picture taker to be an amused parent rather than a cruel prankster. Maybe I read this wrong.

[MOIDALIZE]

No, no, everyone else is right. This will obviously haunt her for the rest of her days.

[carnivorousplant]

In ten years, there will be a series of serial killings of caricaturists.

[Elendil's Heir]

I can't help it, I laughed. Don't you judge me!

[Ichini Sanshigo]

I'm still laughing.

[runner pat]

Originally Posted by carnivorousplant

In ten years, there will be a series of serial killings of caricaturists.

I wonder what the police artist sketch of the suspect will look like?

[carnivorousplant]

Originally Posted by runner pat

I wonder what the police artist sketch of the suspect will look like?

Excellent.
Bait.

As one of the detectives in a Nero Wolfe novel remarks, "Then he knocks off the broad and we catch him!"

[Clothahump]

The first thing that crossed my mind was the cover of Gahan Wilson's book.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_C6K4wQCgXD...20/PAINT08.jpg

[The Great Sun Jester]

Originally Posted by Boyo Jim

You know who else was a street artist, right?

HITLER!

Why does someone always gotta bring up Hitler/Nazis?

[carnivorousplant]

Originally Posted by Inigo Montoya

Why does someone always gotta bring up Hitler/Nazis?

Don't you watch the History Channel?

[The Great Sun Jester]

Originally Posted by carnivorousplant

Don't you watch the History Channel?

Why? Is there some kind of BS rumor that Adolf was an aspiring young artist who was rejected by art school or something?

[billfish678]

I think it is funny as hell as a thought experiment. To actually do it in real life, not so much, like many things we think are funny/entertaining in fiction/tv.

[AskNott]

I think the cartoon image looked a bit cuter and more happy than the grumpy little girl did.

[PlainJain]

I'm confused. If this is real, what should he have done. She fat, he made her look better.
Is it the artists fault the parents are not doing their job or hired him?

[wunderkammer]

Originally Posted by PlainJain

She fat, he made her look better.

I don't quite understand how the caricature looks better to anyone. If anything, it's more emotionless than the girl, but otherwise it's awful--not just tactless, but a hack drawing. Many bad caricaturists have a formulaic drawing style where they start with the eyes (making them recognizable), "exaggerate" the nose (by making it bigger, never mind that the subject has a tiny nose), and outline a jawline much too big for the rest of the face that's usually filled with a huge grin.

In this case, the face + the formula = something grotesque and rather sad. A more skilled artist probably could have found some potential cuteness; I wonder if ththis guy even realized what he was doing before it was too late

[G0sp3l]

I hope the pic's just a ribbing. Otherwise the artist is an @$$. Just because the kid looked unhappy is no reason for the adult to make it a bad experience. If the parent paid for that pic I'm sure it's trash now. I have two kids off my own that piss me off often, even if I discipline them I make sure it won't touch their self-esteem.

I'm saving that for when they're teens

[Jackmannii]

My parents (mostly my mother) insisted on having drawings of the three of us kids done by a caricaturist at a fair when we were respectively 17, 14 and 9. My sister and I both came out looking unhappy (an accurate portrayal) and my brother (the oldest) ended up looked pissed (he was). My mother insisted on hanging the damn things in the house for many years.

They are now decomposing in a landfill somewhere, which is a good thing.

[runner pat]

Originally Posted by Jackmannii

My parents (mostly my mother) insisted on having drawings of the three of us kids done by a caricaturist at a fair when we were respectively 17, 14 and 9. My sister and I both came out looking unhappy (an accurate portrayal) and my brother (the oldest) ended up looked pissed (he was). My mother insisted on hanging the damn things in the house for many years.

They are now decomposing in a landfill somewhere, which is a good thing.

I sure hope you mean the drawings.

[ArizonaTeach]

Is it possible that caricature is photoshopped in?

[NinetyWt]

Originally Posted by PlainJain

I'm confused. If this is real, what should he have done.

For starters, he could have drawn a child instead of an older woman.

[MOIDALIZE]

Originally Posted by Jackmannii

My parents (mostly my mother) insisted on having drawings of the three of us kids done by a caricaturist at a fair when we were respectively 17, 14 and 9. My sister and I both came out looking unhappy (an accurate portrayal) and my brother (the oldest) ended up looked pissed (he was). My mother insisted on hanging the damn things in the house for many years.

They are now decomposing in a landfill somewhere, which is a good thing.

My sisters, my stepbrother, and I went to Sears early one morning to get group photos as a Mother's Day gift for my mom. I might have been 10 or 11 at the time. My oldest sister and my stepbrother had hangovers, my other sister had been in her running away from home stage, and I had a bunch of cuts on my face from an accident involving a broken light fixture. Everyone looked pale and unhappy in the picture, but my mother would not take that damned photo off the wall. She loved it.

[Boyo Jim]

Originally Posted by Inigo Montoya

Why does someone always gotta bring up Hitler/Nazis?

It was either Hitler or the Kennedy assassins. All 4 thousand of them, each a failed aspiring artist.

[PlainJain]

Originally Posted by NinetyWt

For starters, he could have drawn a child instead of an older woman.

I'm guessing trying to narrow out her eye area made her look older but why will that scar her? As was pointed out up thread, he's a hack artist in a hack profession. What's with all the social significance? Why is owning this piece of shit any different than buying a ballon animal dog? It's all crap.