Corycatures

Name: Corycatures
Address: Surrey, BC, V3S8K9, CA
Telephone: +16048133729
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Cory Van Ieperen’s “Corycatures”: caricatures, cartoons, illustration, logos, animation, web graphics & music! Cory was a skilled portrait artist early on.

A fun, interactive & collaborative artist drawing caricatures & illustration for private and public for over 20+ years! Cory Van Ieperen is a fun and interactive artist drawing caricatures for a wide variety of private and public clientele for over 20 years! Everybody from the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks to McDonalds to the entire Corus Radio team has clamoured to have guests at their event get a “Cor

ycature”. Guests are asked to suggest an activity, sport, hobby or even let Cory surprise them... which always results in laughs! Once during 2nd grade, he was pulled out of the class assignment to draw his entire class! Growing up, Cory was an avid comic book collector and movie nut. He took to drawing comics of his favorite music groups the Beatles and KISS as well as other super heroic oddities. His love for the creative showed through as he spent countless hours developing comic strips, dreaming up rock bands and designing his own games. During his college years, Cory honed his familiarity with the "portrait" and became a caricaturist. He studied post-secondary level fine art for over seven years and now works as a professional party caricaturist, illustrator, mural painter, cartoonist & plays in an original rock band called Skookum!! He is always humming a tune and striving to improve on his latest drawing.

07/28/2024

Ready to go for a wedding Cruz on the Star at Westi Bayshore Cruises..... nice night for a wedding Cruz since it's fireworks night as well. Good view from the "office"

07/01/2024

HAPPY CANADA DAY!

Free CORYCatures today in Mission and north Delta!

10am - 2pm -

Mission BC Canada Day - @ Fraser River Heritage Park, 7494 Mary St, Mission, BC

4pm - 7:30pm

Delta Canada Day Celebration - @ Ecole Chalmers Elementary School field - 11315 75 Ave, Delta, BC V4C 1H4

There are BIG FESTIVITIES and attractions at both locations.

I hope you all have a great day!

05/02/2024

Had some fun doing a Lord of the Rings take off for a retirement gift. Plenty of ways we could have gone with characters etc, but fun to make dropping dreaded work life into Mt Doom forever - haha! Original handcoloured caricatures
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03/17/2024

Happy St. Paddy's to everyone! Here's a fun piece I did for my Dad's band for a St. Paddy's gig March 17, 2020.. unfortunatley that gig didn't happen, but this fun illustration did

03/16/2024

It's the start of Spring Break 2024! It's been a while since I posted but here's an idea of some of the things I've been up to. I've been painting in acrylic again! This is a commission for a private client back east in NY and we continue to work on some very fun and off the wall projects. More to come!

02/16/2024

People have been asking if I look this guy on a commercial... yes it's me ;) Super great time shooting in Mexico City almost a year ago now and started me a new journey of commercial work

Check out Cologuard's 30 second TV commercial, 'My Way: Lawn Mower, Spa, Lecture, Motorcycle' from the Medical Services industry. Keep an eye on this page to learn about the songs, characters, and celebrities appearing in this TV commercial. Share it with friends, then discover more great TV commerc...

02/01/2024

Fun promotional activation event for Telus today! Drawing residents and their pets! Woof woof!

12/24/2023

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hannukah and Kwanza and Festivus and good tidings to the Restivus!

11/23/2023

Furry-catures are back! Wrapping up some pet sketches for ... a bit overdue.. sorry gang! Results will be worth the wait!

11/01/2023

HAPPY HALLOWE'EN from Corycatures!
Wishing you all a bunch of fun dressing up and taking out the kiddies to Trick or Treat. Here's a Howl'O'Ween design I did a few years ago for a big All Hallows Bash.

10/17/2023

Drawing super CUTE Pet-icatures at (Boundary Bay Veterinary Specialty Hospital) yesterday and back Friday! The wonderful staff who do their great work for the health of people's beloved Fur-babies enjoeyed theese fun sketches :) I worked from a lot of photos and in some cases the composition of the photo itself was already so great all I had to do was recreate. ~ PS - Yes I draw pets!

10/09/2023

Pumpkin Horror-cature at a FIRST Birthday party!
This distinguished gentleman thought he could stump me with "I want to be chased by ghostface from Scream." .. I said "Challenge accepted!" ... and here we are. I love how it turned out and he was a great sport allowing me to share on my 'socials'.

10/08/2023

First Birthday! I spent the afternoon drawing 80 guests on this one poster page 😮It took exactly three hours from start to finish including extra doodles and erasing. This will be a great memory for the entire family. Maybe you have a big celebration coming up?

09/23/2023

Ok a bit rainy today but its a great day for White Rock Craft Beer Fest right near the pier.come have some local brews and ciders and I'll sketch you up for free! Thx to .realestate for having me out and

09/22/2023

Aaaaaand now for something a little different than caricatures and cartooning... I had a great time on the set of Gold Rush! Scene shot for the next seasons trailer. Do I look "Miner" enough? haha... met some great dudes in Todd, Arthur and Murf as well as Parker and the crew thx !

09/21/2023

This is a very sweet review! Thanks to the Bride & Groom for a great evening entertaining their guests :)

"Cory is an amazing caricature artist! We had him at our wedding for the cocktail hour and everyone was raving to me afterwards about how they wished he stayed longer and what a great job he did! Such personable and likeable guy, great smile, and excellent art ability! He can do drawings from photos too which was amazing as my groom and I were too busy to get ours done but he did one of us from a photo 💗 such a sweet memento and we will definitely frame it! My only regret was not hiring him for the entire night! Highly recommend Cory and we will for sure hire him again for other future family events 😁😁"

★★★★★ "Cory is an amazing caricature artist! We had him at our wedding for the cocktail hour and everyone was raving to me afterwards about how they wished he stayed longer and what a great job he did! Such personable and likeable guy, great smile, and excellent art ability! He can do draw...

09/18/2023

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09/18/2023

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09/14/2023

Hi! I did a thing! A fun project this summer making table place settings for a small wedding anniversary party. It was a fun extra little work of original art that everyone could take home with them. Thanks for the great idea Susanna Stewart Events.

07/01/2023

Happy Canada Day 'Eh!
TOMORROW !!!
Come get your Free Caricature at the Mission BC Canada Day Celebration!
(Fraser River Heritage Park)
11am - 3:00pm - Mission

Also, for your inFOAMation....
There's a Monster Foam Party for some Foamtastic fun!

You will also find the Kids Zone sponsored by RONA Fraser Valley Building Supplies which includes 3 face painters / 2 balloons artists / 1 caricaturist (Corycatures!) - plus a performance bynorden the Magician ... oh, anm that Monster Foam! So come watch a free show and enjoy the festivities!

Have a fun and happy holiday weekend!

06/17/2023

Boy did I learn a lesson today! The SSL certificate on my website expired and I didn't realize it. Wondered how my Google ranking dropped.... got it back... so y'all should check out www.corycatures.com... its a secure site again !

Anyways.... off to another Grad tonight!

06/17/2023

Cory (Corycatures) is the funny and creative man behind our logos. When he's not changing our logo to match many holidays every month, he is out on the scene, drawing caricatures.

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06/06/2023

Just got my copy of Growing Up Lillie by Terry Thorne. I had a fun collaboration designing and illustrating the cover art. Its fun and conveys the whimsical real life tales based on the life of the author's youth in the BC town. Check out: https://www.terrythorne.com/

05/24/2023

Helping out with an established great design!

04/18/2023

Hilarity ensued! Great couple at the wedding last weekend! Hand it to this gentleman for having so long a beard he can braid and provide a Rapunzel style swing for his sweetheart 😁

It was a great night with a great crowd and the bride walked over two hours in and said "wow this guy is popular!" I was happy she hired me to show her that haha!!

03/17/2023

Happy St Paddy's day from your not Irish pal Cory! May you find and be with ALL your luck charms today! 🌈🍀

03/17/2023

Happy St Paddy's day from Mexico city! May the luck of tge Irish be with ye!

03/16/2023

Another fun Corycatures toon for the amazing Go2Girl Services . Happy Lucky Leprechaun week 😄🌈

It's lucky leprechaun month 🍀⁠
We are that much closer to Spring.... (We think😂🙈🤞🏼)⁠
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Have you booked your Spring cleaning yet?⁠
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(Shout out to for his amazing tune up of our logo!)

03/16/2023

My foray into a commercial shoot as a singer! Just completed singing voice over for the shoot. I had to go from full project to movie theatre shhhh. It was a blast taking direction and getting great takes. We had it in 2, then did a bunch more to see if we could do just one better a la Neil Peart in the studio .... having an absolute BLAST !!!

02/18/2023

Come out TOMORROW NIGHT and see my other passion live in person!

TOMORROW NIGHT!!!
SKOOKUM opens the night for Mad Symphony at the Roxy, February 18th!
Be there by 7:30 to see us play Fugly all electric for the first time live!! Also more great songs from our new album! https://www.facebook.com/events/499728858950881

We hope to see you there!

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Surrey, BC
V3S8K9

Telephone

+16048133729

Website

http://www.corycatures.com/

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Thx Dallas for the fun Reel! Reeling from the fun of it all! A Corycatures toon from last Christmas! #gift #giftideas #caricature #framedart #cartoons #happycouple #gettinsketchy

"The Big Reveal"! Yesterday @summermovienightsvan @downtownvan two ladies had their inner princess revealed and here's their reaction! #summer #downtownvancouver #SMNVAN22 #partyart #caricatures #gettinsketchy Thanks to these sponsors without whom this wouldn't have happened: @bentallcentreyvr @streetworksdevelopment @futurpreneur @cadillac_fairview Taking place every Thursday from July 7 - Aug 18 at šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl'e7énḵ Square, this free outdoor movie series is sure to knock your socks off! 🍿When: Thursday’s, July 7 - Aug 18 🍿Where: šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl'e7énḵ Square (formerly known as Vancouver Art Gallery North Plaza) 🍿Activations: 4 PM - Sundown 🍿Movies: Sundown - Late

Live in person this past weekend... pet love :) 🐶🐱 #pets #petlove #doglife #love #bestfriends

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Corycatures (or Cory’s Caricatures) drawing crowds for over 25 years

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About Me - A Brief History of me

Hi! My name is Cory Van Ieperen. I was a skilled portrait artist early on. Once during 2nd grade, I was pulled out of the class assignment to draw my entire class!

Growing up, I was an avid comic book collector and movie nut; drawing comics of my favorite music groups the Beatles and KISS as well as other super heroic oddities. My love for the creative showed through as I spent countless hours developing comic strips, dreaming up rock bands and designing role playing games that went no further than in a drawer somewhere.

During my college years, I honed a stronger familiarity with the "portrait" and became a caricaturist. I studied post-secondary level fine art for over seven years, graduating from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Now I work full time as a professional party caricaturist, illustrator & cartoonist.

I also play guitar and sing vocals in an original rock band called SKOOKUM (www.skookumrock.com) ! I'm always striving to improve on my latest drawing.

NOW for something more about me told in the 3rd person!

Born in Surrey, British Columbia on January 3rd, 1973, Cory spent the better part of his childhood reading comic books and listening to music. He took up the guitar in his teen years, and went on to study Fine Arts at Kwantlen University College. Having found his true calling, Cory continued his education in art, and in the year 2000, graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.

While both his passion and talent cover a broad range of artistic disciplines ranging from painting, printmaking and drawing in a variety of mediums, to comics, cartoons, animation, and web graphics, his artistic flair comes shining through in his caricatures.

Since leaving Emily Carr, Cory continued to hone his skill and has become an accomplished caricaturist freelancing and self-employed for over 10 years. His unique ability of catching his subject's personality is evidenced by the many conventions, weddings, parties and other events he's been asked to attend, much to the pleasure of the guests.

Cory has held a position of Art Director, developing, producing, illustrating and animating online 'cartoon' video presentations for financial professionals and the investment market. He was also a large part of the team as Vice President Creative Design & Development for the Green Garden Gang; a start-up multi-level project with fruits & veggies as main characters who promote environmental awareness & healthy eating.

He continues to grow as an artist and illustrator, branching out to different styles of work and different markets where he can make himself available