Caricature Express

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I saw Elgin Bolling today - another Artist. One of the things I did was to draw this picture based on his photo of T. Pain:

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This man sat next to me in a diner. I drew him with no predraw.. Snapped a photo afterwards to show it here.. Because it’s such a good Caricature.. My associate was with me, and she laughed and laughed.. (I guess she’s not as used to it as I am.)

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Can you understand ?? This picture is okay, not the greatest, but I’m all excited with it. It’s a very important piece. It marks a turning point in my development as a Caricaturist, as a real Artist who doesn’t just copy the world.

It’s a picture of Klaas OpDeBeek, an Artist from Belgium. The first photo shows him holding the picture that I drew. It’s okay:

Then the picture was hanging around on my floor before mailing it to him. And one day, not trying, no effort, an Idea (Eureka!) came to me. Those narrow cheeks with that big noticeable mouth – I COULD TUCK THE CHEEKS INTO A BOWL OF THE MOUTH ! I was thinking outside of the box. Hadn’t seen that done anywhere else (That’s the picture that I posted here on 11/15/08):

Picture 2 (above) was the big turning point. But here’s another rendition where I tried a different way to portray my idea. Now I’m just fiddling around with it:

Eureka! Now I’m a Real Artist, a CREATOR !

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