Artwork © 2010 Hermann Mejia

Back a weekend or two ago I visited NYC and got a chance to sit in on a mini watercolor workshop with some pals and MAD artist Hermann Mejia. Hermann did s few demos for us and gave us pointers while we slapped the paint around. He also did a couple of quick studies himself. He gave me the little treasure above, an unfinished watercolor “sketch” of Sarah Jessica Parker. His painting seems so effortless. Amazing stuff.

This week’s sketch(es) are coming live from the International Society of Caricature Artists‘s annual convention. As I mentioned before, I am one of four guest speakers from MAD Magazine at the event being held this week in Sandusky, OH, the others being Sam Viviano, Mark Fredrickson and Hermann Mejia.

Often times the guest speakers catch “the bug” (and I’m not talking about H1N1) when at the convention and start drawing like the 220 plus other artists do all day and all night. So last night we found ourselves drawing each other in the main competition hall:

At the table clockwise from left: Sam Viviano, Mark Fredrickson, Hermann Mejia, Bob East, me.

Here are the sketches I did of my fellow MAD men:

MAD art director and longtime MAD artist Sam Viviano

MAD cover artist Mark Fredrickson

Incredible MAD artist Hermann Mejia

I’ll post some of the drawings they did of me when I steal them away for a scan.