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Now let's see if we can caricature this woman.
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Let's draw her again. |
Get your lap desk out and put a sheet or two of paper on it and get comfortable in front of your computer. Sharpen your 5B pencil and have your eraser handy. If you'd like to print out the
photo we'll be working with go ahead. We're going to draw our
friend here again but this time we'll try and caricature her
using your new "caricature style" of drawing.
Look
at her face. What do you see is the first thing that jumps out
about her? It's natural to look at the eyes first when you
look at a photo, but is it her eyes that jump out at you? To
me, it's her chin and her smile. The roundness of her cheeks
make her chin seem smaller than it should be. Her smile jumps
out at me because of the "classic" look of it. When
I think of a smile, this is the kind of smile I would see. So,
my caricature of her would have a minimized chin and a smile
that would turn up slightly at the corners more than it
actually does. This isn't going to be a really wacky
caricature, I'm not going "mess her up", I'm just
going to draw her as if she were a cartoon. Fred and Daphne of
Scooby-Doo fame don't look "messed up", they just
look "cartoony". That's what's going to happen here.
We'll mess people up later. I'll have to do more to the face to
achieve the effect I'm looking for. I already know that if I
minimize the chin and turn the smile up, it will make her nose
look longer than it should be. And in relation to her own
face, she doesn't have a long nose. So, I'm going to have to
shorten her nose to make it look right. I know you may be
wondering how I know that I'll have to do all this without
drawing it. It's experience. I've drawn A LOT of caricatures. 
What you may want to do instead of drawing ten thousand
caricatures to get the experience, is draw little sketches of
possible ways to caricature her. Make several little drawings
of different exaggerated facial features and then pick the one
you think may look the most like her. Remember, It's not going
to be a very good caricature if it doesn't look like
her.
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