About Me

Thanks for visiting my website. I hope you'll enjoy looking at the selection of my art on display from commission and event work to my 'Edd's Heads' celebrity renderings. Should you wish to commission a piece of artwork or hire me to draw guests at your event, then please don't hesitate to get in touch. I'll be happy to offer further information on prices, procedures, availability and answer any other questions or queries you may have. Hope to hear from you soon!

Here is some background information about the man behind the art....
I have drawn all my life and always had a keen interest in all things cartoon art related. After leaving Glasgow College of Building and Printing with an HND in illustration in 1997, my monthly slot of caricaturing student stereotypes for the college newspaper fuelled my imagination and desire to do caricatures for a living.
(Astonishingly, I was a bit inexperienced back then and was not an immediate success!) Various jobs followed and I gained invaluable experience through them, working with the public and so on, all the while keeping up with the sketches.

I co-founded 'Toxic Pie' comic with individuals from college and a local comic club. Toxic Pie was a self funded, self produced and self published small press adult humour comic. It proved to be a hit amongst students and comic fans and we sold it throughout Glasgow and Edinburgh in the nineties. Due to financial difficulties, the comic only ran to two issues. A good learning experience nonetheless!

In 2003 I began to focus my attentions on commission work, character design, celebrity caricatures and live event caricaturing. Along the way I collaborated with a small, Glasgow based studio group of caricaturists / cartoonists doing just that.

In 2006, the group had it's biggest achievement to date with an exhibition of their 'Scottish Celebrity' caricatures, which ran at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh for three months. As well as contributing artwork to the groups' collaborative exhibition; 17 of my celebrity caricatures also featured in a book to accompany the project.

I left the studio group with experience gained, the following year in 2007.
I set up business as a caricaturist / cartoonist / illustrator by my own name and launched this website that same year. Pleased to report my work has remained popular and in demand. Over the last few years I have established myself as one of Scotland's leading caricaturists.

In 2010 I debuted my first solo collection of celebrity caricatures in an exhibition entitled 'Edd's Heads Famous Faces Caricatured' in Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow, at the Auld Kirk Museum, the principal museum for East Dunbartonshire. The exhibition ran from October 9th till November 6th, and was extremely popular with visitors from the local area and some who came from far and wide across the central belt of Scotland, not to mention one or two from overseas! I was absolutely delighted with the reception my exhibition received and the whole event was all the more special as it took place in my home town!
Whilst the exhibition ran, I demonstrated the art of 'live caricature' to children and visitors at the Auld Kirk as part of the 'Big Draw - Campaign for Drawing' nationwide event in a bid to encourage and inspire people of all ages to have a go at some good old fashioned drawing. It was the second year in a row I'd been involved in the project. The response from people was fantastic and we all had a lot of fun!
 
These days I continue to move forward and continue to pursue new challenges and opportunities. I regularly travel all over the country doing live caricatures at weddings, parties and events as well as producing gift caricatures from photographs and artwork for projects within the public and private sectors. I continue to produce caricatures of famous faces in my own unique style, collectively entitled 'Edd's Heads'.
Several celebrities have contacted me to comment on my artwork. Eg: "Edd I love my caricature....especially the boobs! Lorraine Kelly, 2006.
Other highlights for me have been when my handiwork has enabled me to meet Ricky Tomlinson and Dougie Henshall at separate events and present them with a caricature each of themselves! I am amazed at the possibilities that caricature art can take me and I enjoy my work immensely!

Some previous clients who have used my services: The Big Draw (Campaign for Drawing), Clyde Valley Hog, BBC Alba, HBOS Plc, Lloyds Bank Plc, The Advance Group, The Magic Agency, The Rok Group, The Big Partnership, SAS Events, The Coast Festival Girvan, Maximillion Events, BBC Scotland, Tennant Participation Advisory Service, Mother India Restaurant, Davidsons Animal Feeds, Irwin and Mitchell Solicitors, Culture and Sport Glasgow, South Ayrshire Council, Alzheimers Scotland, Go Greener Events, Tollcross Leisure Centre, Barrhead Leisure Centre, East Dumbartonshire Council, The Sunday Mail, Strathclyde University, Homecoming Scotland, Prudential, Scottish Water Solutions and many more....

My caricatures and cartoons have appeared in the following publications:
The Sunday Post, The Sunday Times, Zit comic, Gutted comic, Toxic Pie comic, The Berkeley Beacon Student Magazine USA, The Independent, Kirkintilloch Herald, The Sun, The (Glasgow) Herald, The Paisley Chronicle, The Metro, The Evening Times, The Sunday Mail, The List and The Big Issue.

I would like to take the opportunity to personally thank my family, friends, customers and the random well wishers for all the compliments and kind messages of support I have received since launching this website. Massive thanks to those who contributed photographs and testimonials also. All much appreciated. Respect, respect, respect!

As for the future, I plan to continue to improve my skills and continue to grow and develop as an artist; have fun and to keep doing what makes others and myself very happy....Anything to avoid a 'proper job!'

 I live in Kirkintilloch near Glasgow with my wife, 2 kids and border collie dog. And loud music! Thanks for reading.

Edd Travers.

Email address: eddsheads@hotmail.co.uk

The artwork that appears within this site is copyright of Edd Travers © unless otherwise stated. No use of any images, in replication in part or in whole is permitted without the copyright holders written consent.