About the Artist

Court Jones 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 here.
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. To read more about
that, click here.

To download a pdf of the interview, please click
HERE
Awards Court Jones has won at past NCN/ISCA conventions:
2009
- 2nd Place - Best Studio Caricature
2007
- 3rd Place - Likeness Competition
- 2nd Place Best Portfolio
- 2nd Place Best Studio Caricature
2006
- 3rd Place Best Studio Piece
2005
- 1st Place - Caricaturist of the Year (Golden
Nosey!)
- 1st Place - Best Portfolio
- 1st Place - Best
Studio Caricature
- 2nd Place - Outstanding Exaggerated Style
- 3rd Place - Outstanding Black and White Technique
- 3rd Place - Best Likeness
- 6th and 8th Place - Caricature of the Year (for two separate
pieces!)
2004
- 5th Place - Caricaturist of the Year
- 3rd Place - Best Portfolio
- 5th Place - Caricature of the Year
2003
- 4th Place - Caricaturist of the Year
- 3rd Place - Outstanding Cartoon Style
2000
- 9th Place - Caricaturist of the Year
- 3rd Place - Best Likeness
Portraiture awards
- Best of Show - San Diego Portrait Society 2011 All Member Show
- 1st Place Honorable Mention - San Diego Portrait Society 2011 All Member Show
- Honorable Mention - San Diego Portrait Society 2010 All Member Show
- Honorable Mention - San Diego Portrait Society 2009 All Member Show
- Peoples' Choice - San Diego Portrait Society 2007 All Member Show
- Honorable Mention - San Diego Portrait Society 2007 All Member Show
- Honorable Mention - San Diego Portrait Society 2007 All Member Show

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