Cartoonist: Working with Chaise Payan

We have been working with cartoonist Chaise Payan for a while now, he has created many colorful, creative and fun cartoons for us, many of which are featured on Blueprint Bluepers. Working with a cartoonist is interesting, especially considering he has to take our ideas and real construction document errors and turn them into art. This is one of the first so-called "professional" contracts this young artist has had, it has been a unique experience for him to migrate from creating art that he wants to do, to creating art that a client wants. But he has met the challenge and is doing a great job, we really like working with him.

Here are some thoughts from the President, Natalie Nigro, about working with Chaise.

1 – His attention to detail is amazing. Not only that, there is almost always fun stuff hiding in his cartoons, for example look more closely at “I Heart F...” in the cartoon "Dead End Exit," the text wraps around the mug out of view, we keep wondering what word the F starts?

2 – He always comes up with stuff that we would never expect or be able to think up ourselves… but his cartoon ideas are always fabulous! All we have to do is give him the gist of an idea, brainstorm with it a bit, and he runs with it. He knows us and what we like and then comes up with highly creative, wonderful pieces.

To turn the tables, when we asked Chaise what it was like to work with the Nigro Firm he said, "One thing I find interesting in creating images is how people react to them, so it's nice to work directly with a team of people that are responsive to what I'm making."

We have four new cartoons coming up, here is a sneak preview of one that we are getting ready to publish.

We haven't come up with the text yet, but we can't help but compare this cartoon beagle to real canine behavior.



Someone even created a porcelain replica of a beagle enjoying a doggie "water fountain."

Well, come back soon and visit Blueprint Bluepers to see our great cartoons created by Chaise.

How to Use our Construction Cartoons

We love to share our construction cartoons....but not necessarily our bandwidth.

So, if you would like to post our Blueprint Bluepers cartoons to your website, forum or blog please link to our Photobucket album. Currently, we have 10 full-color original construction cartoons in this album.

Including our first, The Circulating Pimp.


All we ask is that you please include the entire cartoon with attributions/credits. And please do not sell them or alter them in any way.

Of course you are also welcome to print them out, we offer large printable versions from our website Blueprint Bluepers, see the cartoon section.

If you would like to learn more about our featured artist, Chaise Payan, click here.

If you have construction related cartoons or humorous stories that you would like to share, see our contribution guidelines.

Blueprint Bluepers Construction Cartoons: New cartoon, the home team advantage

As many of you know, the Nigro Firm publishes a construction humor site called Blueprint Bluepers. We have posted two new original cartoons recently - The Home Team Advantage and The Dead End Exit.

These two cartoons were created by artist Chaise Payan and were inspired from errors actually found on construction drawings. We love the creative process and often publish preliminary sketches that our artist roughs out before he creates the final version, check out the sketch for The Home Team Advantage.

Please visit Blueprint Blueper's construction cartoon page and share our cartoons with your friends.

Author: Pamela S. Stevens