Guests get in on the act as the heroic subjects, cheeky kibbitzers, sardonic commentators, and as gleeful witnesses to the spectacle of eye-popping likenesses coming to life, and in no time flat they're handed original artwork unique to them and that moment - which everyone helped to make happen.

Some of the situations I end up in border on the surreal. Voilà Monsieur Sketchum (below) at his most-loved booking of 2018 (thanks Ian & Anna!). I dress smartly to events, but got the okay to kit myself out appropriately in my French peasant ensemble paysan for the occasion - a wedding at an enchanted castle hosted by the charming Dick Strawbridge & his beguilingly sweet muse (that's french for missus) and Queen of the Cupcakes, Angel Adorée in France - truly an Escape to the Château!

Staggeringly, over the past twenty-one years I've provided entertainment at over 2500 private & business events of all descriptions right across Old Blighty - I'm no stranger to county-to-county...staggering...

Greetings - I'm the London caricaturist Mr Sketchum. My 'ordinary' name is Alfie Deliss - but you can call me Mr Sketchum! Normally, I get hired to provide entertainment and cartoon portraits by sketching fast'n'free caricatures on the spot at parties - but these are far from normal times, and social gatherings are forbidden, so check out my new live (as in not dead yet) streaming not-on-the-spot while-u-watch online caricature and cartoon portrait service by clicking here.

Mix'n'mingling, winding my way around dining tables, as well as able to sketch seated from one spot, I adapt to virtually any setting - all I need is a a smile (I can work with fake). As long as guests are up for a little fun and I'm lucky enough to be given the opportunity to foster a convivial atmosphere, any setting will do the trick just fine.

At around the same time, I was briefed to kit myself out as a "Belgian east London hipster caricature artist" (!...so it was on with the everyday Shoreditch garçon gear again!) to be filmed for a section of an insanely madcap TV ad where I adopt a Belgian (French) accent while predicting World Cup footie fixture results (eh?!), while simultaneously sketching Paul Gascoigne - the one-and-only Gazza - on top of a moving double-decker bus!!

Guests like to deliver their "verdicts" on the sketches (I don't mind! *he says*), and congratulating themselves when they've come out well, yet groups also take great pleasure in affectionately ribbing one-another over each other's peculiarities which, perhaps idiosyncratically, allows them get on even better with each other.