Caricature Express

Running around. But I felt like making new Fashion Sketch Samples.
This is what I came up with - using the limited supplies that I always
have with me.

It’s a good idea to keep paper and markers with you.
I keep the ones that aren’t ‘juicy’ enough for my gigs anymore.
They’re in my pocketbook, in my car, in every room of my house,
at my friend’s house….. Everywhere.

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Some stuff from my sketchbook ~ Posted here to remind me to exaggerate maturely ~ Easiest done in a 3/4 view ~

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I’ll frequently have people ask me - “Sooo, what you do is….
to take one feature and make it real big……”

“Yes, yes”, I mindlessly say ~ because I’m busy drawing and I can’t really interrupt my experience to start teaching and explaining ~ or else I wouldn’t be doing it anymore. I would be talking instead.

When I’m really in my game, when I’m really ‘in the zone’, I’m imitating the expression that I’m seeing with my own face. I’m feeling it. So I know what the different ‘parts’ are doing. I might be ‘dancing with the long curly hair’. Or scrunching up my nose. Or or puppy-dogging my eyes. Or nervously looking around (I don’t like when my subject does that ~ It doesn’t feel good for me to have to imitate it) ~ that sort of thing. And this is imposed upon the shapes that initially Wow me as the person approaches. My first impression of what the person looks like.

Here are some simple pictures that I drew at a child’s party. I’ll try to remember my main impression of what I saw:

It was the narrow triangle on the bottom of the face
which repeated the shape of the smiling mouth ~
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Oooh ~ I felt scared to do this one ~
The girl’s mother told me how they’re both professional models
because she’s so pretty and all…….
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Smooth sleek hair ~
‘Tut-tut-now’ lips
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Aaaah ! that debonair glance ~ Those luscious lips …………..
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I wish I could touch that haircut
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wide-eyes, led around as a little girl ~
reminded me of myself when I was little and
didn’t have a clue as to what was going on
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those teeeth.
not aware of that suggestive look in his young eyes.
Boys.
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Oh boy ~ I really gotta get into Digital Caricatures. Here’s a picture, originally drawn at a Party, which I scanned into PhotoShop and played with the Liquify button.
I can imagine spending hours (weeks? years?) just liquifying everything if I was a kid. This is fun.

I recently put the Art Studio app onto my iphone. At least that’s a step towards drawing digitally at Parties. If I like it, ummmm, perhaps I’ll get an ipad. And then. And then..

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Art is for Fun. Party Whoop-de-doo
Fun.

Caricatures are not like looking into a mirror. Not like tracing a photograph and modeling the forms based on highlight/shadow the way we do for a Portrait. Not the same pretty face for everyone with different hair. A Real Caricature Artist will be making a statement on what she sees. And it has to be quick. First impression, no editing. Because we draw one person after the next. “How many faces can you draw per hour?” is frequently asked by my clients. (BTW, I recommend estimating ten faces per hour.)

A Real Caricature is an Exaggeration. Here are some Samples from a 12-year-old girl’s Party:

So get drawn. Have fun. Laugh.
See yourself as a Cartoon.

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