Artist Court Jones Portfolio Reel - Commercial illustrator & Caricature Artist

Court Jones is a Guest Artist in New Caricature Drawing Book by Anthony Geoffroy, preview it at http://sketchoholic.com/flipbook/anthonygeoffroy 

Court Jones (courtjones.com) works as a freelance commercial illustrator and caricature entertainer in San Diego, California. He has done a lot of published illustration and concept work for film and TV projects, editorial and product illustration for clients such as Atlantic Records, Upper Deck, Rolling Stone Magazine, Wired Magazine, Barbed Wire FX, The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Uptown News and Blizzard Entertainment, among others.

He earned his BA in Studio Art from the University of California, San Diego, and continued his formal art training at the Watts Atelier of the Arts in Encinitas, California. He has taught many workshops in illustration, caricature and painting across the country and internationally in Japan, South Korea and India. But began teaching courses in caricature, illustration and painting at the Watts Atelier in 2003. He has won several awards for his work from the San Diego Portrait Society, the International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA) and National Caricaturist Network (NCN), including the top award of Caricaturist of the Year, at the annual NCN convention in 2005.

Court has created a couple instructional videos on the art of digital caricature painting which are viewable at BlipTV here and there.

Mad Magazine's Tom Richmond illustrated Court Jones on the cover of Exaggerated Features, the official quarterly newsletter of the National Caricaturists Network, shortly after Court won Caricature Artist of the Year from the National Caricaturists Network's 2005 convention.