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
Greetings! I'm Mr Sketchum, the London caricaturist & party entertainer for hire - my name is Alfie Deliss, but you can call me Mr Sketchum! I provide corporate, party & wedding entertainment live at events by sketching fab, fast, funny and often flattering, but most importantly free caricatures.
Staggeringly, over the past 22 years I've supplied private party, corporate and wedding entertainment to literally thousands of events, many of them near me in central London, but also UK-wide & abroad, so it's "have pens will travel!" - I'm no stranger to county-to-county...staggering.
I usually work on the move - "mix'n'mingling" - for example during drinks, and by discreetly winding my way around the tables during meals - "table-hopping", but sometimes I'm seated - "stall format" - with guests coming to sit for me in ones, couples and groups. Any situation where I have the opportunity to pull off some good sketches and foster a fun atmosphere will do the trick.
You know that TV show "Escape to the Château"? - I got the idea and subsequent okay (thanks Ian & Anna!) to kit myself out in my ensemble paysan (french peasant outfit - see below) for a wonderful wedding at the famous bijou castle in northwest France owned by the genial Dick Strawbridge MBE & his enchanting muse Angela Adorée.
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
Expo/Trade Show Stands
Public Events/Summer Fairs
House/Small Parties
Staff & Family Fun Days
Lunches'n'Launches
B'n'B Mitzvahs
You tell me!
Have Thermos™
And space suit
Will travel!
Skip agency fees
Your graphics preprinted
Short notice? No problem!
Friendly reliable service
Established 1999
Ageing gracefully
Flowers scare me
Small faces half price
Nose job too small
Roving or seated
Up to twenty sketches p/h
Unique masterpieces
To ridiculous from sublime
And back again
More you than you!
For a quote or if you have any questions, please email or use the enquiry form below - and of course you're welcome to telephone.
Party, corporate & wedding entertainment hire has obviously been hugely affected by the bug - but - I can still sketch!
See my latest Covid update here
It tends to be an interactive process, with guests getting in on the act as the 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.
Soon afterwards I was briefed to dress as a "hip bohemian Belgian east London caricature artist" - so it was on with the Shoreditch garçon gear again - for a TV ad where I was filmed being thrown around central London on top of a double-decker whilst sketching a hyperactive Paul Gascoigne (Gazza) and having to invent predictions on World Cup football fixtures - of which I knew nothing - in a 'Belgian' (French) accent. You couldn't make it up :P
Guests have fun delivering their "verdicts" on my efforts (I don't mind! *so he says*), and close-knit groups always sweetly congratulate each other when they've come out well - yet they can also take great pleasure in affectionately ribbing one-another over each other's unique peculiarities - which idiosyncratically makes them bond together more!
