Welcome to Ken Fallin’s website.

Nothing focuses the mind better than a perfect line. That is what makes Ken Fallin’s portraits such a pleasure to look at, whether for the first time or the hundred-and-first. I draw portraits, too, but in prose, often for the Leisure & Arts page of the Wall Street Journal. And never do I feel luckier than when the paper dresses my piece with a caricature of Ken’s to capture the harried executive’s eye. Some of our subjects have been stars of stage and screen, whose careers are all about charisma. Some have been business tycoons, whose gift for existential drama expresses itself in places the casual observer will never see. Either way, Ken takes a sharp look, brandishes his steel quill, and traces in ink the essence of a living soul. The technique is antique, but applied with a zest that will never date. When someone calls to thank me for a great interview, the real purpose is usually to ask, “How do I buy the original illustration?”