On-site live portrait sketching service for Chanel.

Event: Chanel Fine Jewellery Exibition.
Date of event: 10,11 & 12 March 2010.
Venue: Theatreworks, Mohd Sultan Road, Singapore.
Duration: A total of 9 hours(2 sessions per day).
Average drawing speed: 20 minutes per head.

My caricaturist friend Jit sought my service to do this rare portrait sketching job for a high-end client 'Chanel' during their jewellery show recently. I was too used to do caricatures at events that I'd forgotten to bring along my pencil for this particular job on the first day. Luckily, Jit had some spare ones for me. Both of us were required to wear all black for all sessions. Anyway, we would wear all black by default for most of our jods. That went well with us.
The client was very cautious not to allow us taking pictures of the guests together with the portrait for certain reason. Maybe they were high society people who need privacy but they didn't mind us taking those artworks that we did.
We had 2 sessions per day of which one was meant for lunch crowd & the other was for the dinner crowd. The last session on the 3rd day was the toughest one which we had to draw non-stop for 3 hours. Tired after the final session but we did get some tips from the last guest, at least enough for us to pay our parking fees, hehe...
The difficulty of this job was that the light was not to our advantage. It was dim & not properly shone on the guests face so we had a hard time trying to figure out the features from the hard shadow on their faces. I didn't enjoy drawing at all but what to do, the show must go on...

The building in which the event was held.


The staff getting ready to receive guests.


The showcase hall that displays all the jewellery. A very high class setting.


These are some of my drawings without the usual way of picture being taken with the guests.



































































































Jit(far left) & myself on the job.