Says Victor Pross

"I am a professional Toronto caricaturist and illustrator. On the whole, I have extensive experience in caricature art, comic art, editorials, game boards, character design, CD covers, print advertisements, etc. I have also been privately commissioned for live events and commercial events. Basically, I must have drawn over 100,000 faces at these events over the years! (or do I exaggerate?) Really, I have done hundreds upon hundreds of these types of commissions and they do all tend to blur together, but I would like to highlight some proud career experiences. Some highlights and proud moments would include:

Teaching caricature, character design and humorous illustration at Max the Mutt Animation school here in Toronto. I enjoyed my stint as a teacher. I became rather close to my students, and it was rather sad to have to say good-bye. Once, I received a round of applause from the students on the last day of a final semester, and it left me chocked up. That made me feel very proud. I Caricatured actor Fred Ward when he appeared in Toronto for some on location shooting. Actually, the studio needed to hire an artist to paint a caricature portrait of Fred Ward’s character and the painting appeared in the movie for which it was commissioned. (Was it art or a movie prop?) I was commissioned to paint Ron Howard’s caricature portrait as a gift for the famous director. I have also been commissioned to paint a head-honcho at the William Morris Agency.

I have also contributed articles on the caricature genre to magazines such as Caricature Magazine and Exaggerated Features (This last is published by the NCN—National Caricature Network). I am very proud to have been interviewed by many television shows (and print articles) which would include shows like Canada AM, Breakfast Television, News at Noon, etc—and I have been pegged by Canadian Media as being “Canada’s foremost caricature artist.” I don’t know where this started and it does ring of standard media hyperbole, but who am I to argue with the press? What am I--a trouble maker?

Finally, (without gong on and on) I am very proud to be working diligently on Icons and Idols, a book I'm writing, but it will primarily consist of my paintings. Live gallery events are always a plus!

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