Bubbly corporate entertainment sketching a truly great bunch ~ Staff drinks/office party at beer company AB InBev's HQ's bar (of course) in Holborn, London
Corporate trade show/fair entertainment for Bic Graphic using Bic pens - of course! - Olympia in Kensington, London
Corporate trade show/fair entertainment for Bic Graphic using Bic pens - of course! - Olympia in Kensington, London
Greetings! I'm the London caricaturist & party entertainer known as Mr Sketchum - but please call me Alfie. I supply party, wedding & corporate entertainment hire by sketching funny, fast, frequently flattering and fabulously free caricatures live at events.
I usually do what is called 'mix'n'mingling' on 'walkabout' as a 'roaming' or 'roving' entertainer, for example during drinks receptions, and 'table-hopping', where I discreetly wind my way around the tables during meals. Sometimes it's best to work 'static', or 'stall format', with guests coming to sit for me in ones, couples and groups. Any situation where I'm given the opportunity to do fun sketches and foster a good atmosphere does the trick.
Staggeringly, over the past 22 years I've supplied private party, wedding and corporate entertainment hire to literally thousands of events, many of them near me in central London, but also UK-wide & abroad. "Have pens will travel!" - I'm no stranger to county-to-county...staggering.
Greetings! I'm London caricaturist & party entertainer for hire Mr Sketchum - my name is Alfie Deliss, but you can call me Mr Sketchum! For over two decades I've been providing party, wedding & corporate entertainment live at events by sketching fast, funny, often flattering, but most importantly free caricatures.
You know that TV show "Escape to the Château"? I attended a fabulous wedding (thanks Ian & Anna) at the bijou castle of the genial Dick Strawbridge & his enchanting muse Angela Adorée in northwest France. It was the perfect opportunity and I got the okay to kit myself out in my ensemble ouvrier (french worker outfit) - see below.
Networking Drinks
Weddings & Anniversaries
Office Party Entertainment
Welcome/Farewell Parties
Awards Nights/Gala Dinners
Conferences/Seminars
Themed/Fancy Dress Parties
Birthday Party Entertainment
Christmas & NYE Parties
Summer/Winter/Student Balls
Housewarmings/Kids Parties
Expos/Trade Shows
Public Events/Summer Fairs
House/Garden/Dinner Parties
Staff & Family Fun Days
Lunches'n'Launches
B'n'B Mitzvahs
You tell me!
Upfront fees
Short notice? Great!
Avoid agency fees & snags
Walkabout/stall format
Your graphics preprinted
Up to twenty sketches p/h
Established 1999
Have Thermos™
& space suit
Will travel
Ageing gracefully
Flowers scare me
Small faces half price
No job too small
Unique masterpieces
To ridiculous from sublime
And back again
More you than you!
For a quote or if you have any questions, please fill in the form below and I’ll get back to you as fast as possible (usually very quickly), and of course you're welcome to email or telephone.
Party, wedding & corporate entertainment hire has obviously been hugely affected by the bug - but - I can still sketch!
Please check my latest Covid update here
It's an interactive process, with guests getting in on the act as plucky subjects, cheeky kibitzers, comic commentators and simply spectators of the likenesses emerging, and in no time flat they're clutching souvenirs of the event that are unique to them in that moment.
Guests have fun delivering their 'verdicts' on my sketches (I don't mind! *he says*), and close-knit groups always kindly congratulate each other when they've come out well - yet they love to affectionately rib one-another over each other's unique peculiarities - which actually brings them closer together!
Soon afterwards I was briefed to dress as a "hip bohemian Belgian east London caricature artist" - so it was back on with the Shoreditch garçon gear - for a TV ad where I was on top of a double-decker bus sketching a hyperactive Paul Gascoigne (Gazza) whilst ad-libbing predictions on World Cup football results (?!) in a 'Belgian' (/French) accent.
