Anyone notice those dudes drawing caricatures in Waikiki? I was back home for a few months in 2003 and noticed:
And old guy from Thailand who'd draw very realistic caricatures of ppl with a black Prismacolor pencil, very nice ol' guy with glasses, and good work.
One skinny Haole guy with a bad arm, could do a caricature or a painting, and said he's done a few murals too.
One guy from the Middle East, could do caricatures or painting, often working on a nice painting of someone.
A Korean guy who always had a huge crowd of Japanese tourists around him, working on very bright white paper, the story was he had something like 14 kids to feed.
All of these guys were in danger of being arrested by the cops, it was a delicate dance, since it's supposed to be for a donation not actually selling something.
It seemed like any of these guys could make $100 a night, I saw 'em make $50 in a couple of hours.
It also seemed like any of 'em could get around the legal issue by working with a store or something, but I think they liked to work only when they wanted to, so that was out.
There was also a caricature "stand" at the bottom floor of one of the large hotels, but the guy there never drew anything, just sat there. Weird eh?
I'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed anything interesting about this trade, I think I'd want to learn this if I moved back, that way I could make money no mattah what.
And old guy from Thailand who'd draw very realistic caricatures of ppl with a black Prismacolor pencil, very nice ol' guy with glasses, and good work.
One skinny Haole guy with a bad arm, could do a caricature or a painting, and said he's done a few murals too.
One guy from the Middle East, could do caricatures or painting, often working on a nice painting of someone.
A Korean guy who always had a huge crowd of Japanese tourists around him, working on very bright white paper, the story was he had something like 14 kids to feed.
All of these guys were in danger of being arrested by the cops, it was a delicate dance, since it's supposed to be for a donation not actually selling something.
It seemed like any of these guys could make $100 a night, I saw 'em make $50 in a couple of hours.
It also seemed like any of 'em could get around the legal issue by working with a store or something, but I think they liked to work only when they wanted to, so that was out.
There was also a caricature "stand" at the bottom floor of one of the large hotels, but the guy there never drew anything, just sat there. Weird eh?
I'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed anything interesting about this trade, I think I'd want to learn this if I moved back, that way I could make money no mattah what.
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