Caricature Express

I’m at it again.
Before going to Yoga, I revisited the picture from 08/06/08.
After Yoga, I drew it yet again:

Now I’m trying to relax more while drawing.
Beautiful approach for beautiful drawings.
Relax - now, that doesn’t mean to sleep!

I’m fluctuating between two approaches.
I guess I’ll work on both of them,
and use whichever one is appropriate at the time when I’m drawing.

The first approach - 3-d shapes. Like wedge, egg, pyramid, book,
dish-detergent-bottle. That sort of stuff. Definite decisions in the predraw instead of
wild scribbling. Here are 2 pictures (just the line-art) using that approach.
I was able to sit back and relax.
I like the results. Even before putting in any shading, it looks real solid:

Until I do maaaaannyyy of those though, I think the second approach will work better at parties.
It’s much faster. NO predraw at all this time. Just basic knowledge and simple shapes
- drawing from the inside out. As you can see in the following sample, though, this approach
usually grows too big for the page.

But when I try things like limited predraw of outsides before doing insides with marker
it gets stiff and boring to me. So now I’m thinking
of trying athird approach - no predraw - outside-in.
Stay tuned - I hope to post those studies soon.

Meanwhile, here’s the picture drawn from the inside out - with no predraw:

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Studying continues.

Today I decided to simplify. To make my job EEEEasy.
At first, I thought this was perfect. Here’s a simple picture drawn with basic answers:

‘This will make my job easy’, I thought. So I drew another man. Ick - what a crummy picture. I had to draw him again. The 2nd one came out easily, but I can’t very well draw everybody 2ce at a party:

Maybe that was just a difficult Caricature. I tried the simple approach with another photo. Counfounded again. I was only satisfied with the 2nd picture:

Sooooo, it might look easy, it might be fun, but I still have to focus and work at it when I’m creating Artwork. There’s no easy way out of working. Keeping it real.

So there I was. Just watching tv, paper beside me. What to draw?

First I drew a picture loosely based on some innocuous character I saw on the screen.

Then I wondered if I could turn him into a 3/4 view just based on what I drew in the front view.

Then I wanted to pump-up the 3-dimensionality, but the supplies I had there were limited. Still, it passed the time pleasantly:

BTW, if You (Dear Reader) know who said that quote that popped into my mind when I saw this picture’s eyes, “If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants”, please let me know. I couldn’t think of it just now, and I’d want to give credit to the originator.

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In my previous post, I planned it all out. Markers in the Hot Sun.
Colorsticks in other situations. Or so I thought.

Maybe we never really change! Could that be? Nah. More likely,
it happens so subtley, that we don’t see the growth at each point.
It’s just an overall thing - like when you’re 20 years old, you’re
different thanwhen you were 5 years old. And when you’re 50 years
old, you’re different than when you were 16 years old.

Anyway, I’m real interested in seeing how my Marker studies
affected this weekend’s work. But there are so many photos
here that I can’t separate them out.

This weekend I worked indoor Parties. One woman turning 47, and another turning 30.
Both indoors. Very comfortable. I used mostly color sticks, as usual.
But I also used the colored Markers a bit more than usual.

So here’s a whole bunch of photos from several other parties. Hmmm, I recognize
at lease some of them from an After-Prom sort of thing that I did in NJ.

Some were from an Office Party that I did in NYC - in their office in the daytime.

Some were from an Office Party that was held after-hours in a dark ‘bar?’ - I don’t
know how to refer to that type of venue - It’s one of those low-lit heavy-wooded places
that have private parties in the basement and walk-in yuppies upstairs - this basement had
a pool table, sometimes I notice karaoke…..

And some of these pictures were created at a Pool-Party in a backyard.

And some were done at a Graduation Party at a magnificent house - it was
originally decorated out back with tents, but it
was moved into the library when it started raining.

AND I see at least one from an unusual Block Party that was all done in one family’s backyard.

Oh! And there’s some here from a Corporate Party in which my client bussed in his
employees to his magnificent house during the daytime.

Lol - the last 2 pictures were from even 2 other parties.
One done in a small cement backyard in the Bronx - they also erected a canopy
because it did start raining too. So then the Father drove me back to my car
which was a long way off and I found out all about his huge Snakes!

And the other was done in the living room of a quiet suburban house -
1-Year-Old’s Party.

So these pictures come from at least Nine Parties!
Life is a party. It’s a whirlwind.

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