Greetings! I'm Mr Sketchum, the London caricaturist & party entertainer for hire - my 'ordinary' name is Alfie Deliss, but you can call me Mr Sketchum! I supply corporate, party & wedding entertainment by sketching funny, often flattering, and most importantly free caricatures live at events.
Staggeringly, over the past twenty-two years I've supplied private party, corporate and wedding entertainment hire to literally thousands of events, many of them near me in central London, but also UK-wide & abroad - it's "have pens will travel" and I'm no stranger to county-to-county...staggering..!
I can sketch seated (I've heard it called "stall format" & "static"), with guests coming to sit for me in ones, couples and groups, or on the move ("walkabout", or "mix'n'mingling") for example during drinks, and by discreetly winding my way around the tables during the meal ("table entertainment", "table-hopping"). Whatever ideas you may have, any setting where I get the opportunity to foster a fun atmosphere is perfectly suitable.
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 near Laval in northwest France owned by the genial Dick Strawbridge MBE & his enchanting muse (that's french for missus) Angel 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!
Guests have fun delivering their "verdicts" on my caricatures (I don't mind! *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 (perhaps idiosyncratically) makes them all get on even better!
Soon afterwards I was called upon to dress as a "hip bohemian Belgian-but-east-London-dwelling artist" - so it was on with the Shoreditch garçon gear again - for a TV ad where I was to be filmed being tossed around central London on top of a double-decker whilst sketching a hyperactive Paul Gascoigne (the one-and-only Gazza!) and simultaneously ad-libbing bogus predictions on World Cup football (about which I have no idea) fixtures in a 'Belgian' (French) accent.
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!
Please see my Covid updates here
It's usually an interactive process, with guests getting in on the act as the plucky subjects, cheerfully sardonic kibbitzers, stoic philosophers and simply spectators of the likenesses emerging, and in less than no time flat they've got their masterpieces under their arms, unique to them in that moment.
