Caricature Express

I brought my car in for routine maintenance this morning.
They treat me like a Cadillac here. Let me use the
Copy machine for some coloring pages I made last night for a Clown.
And I used the water Cooler while they let me use the Computer while waiting.

Perusing this blog, I was inspired by my post of 5/28/08.
So I drew a 3/4 view picture from a front-view photo:

But I wondered if I would have easily had more intensity if I just drew what I saw:

Then I was looking through my sketches, and I found this one from when
I was working on my lineS quality at a recent Cooper Union Graduation:

So I tried a more careful picture of my front view.
What a difference the quality of the pen would have made:

Barely finished my last stroke
when the mechanic walked in.
Is my car finished? Yes!

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You’re probably not going to think much of these 3 pictures that I want to post today - so I can remember them. But they are pivotal.

I had grabbed some scrap paper and quickly drew against some bumpy furniture (hence the horrible line-quality) just so I could remember what I had just thought of. It’s The Answer to quicksketch 3/4-view Caricatures. It just bcame So Clear to me for that moment:

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Why am I up? It’s almost 2 am, and here I am twisting balloons (I can do a 6-petal flower now!) and practicing my 3/4-view Caricatures. Blinking blinking because I put my hands near my eyes after using Peppermint Oyil. dot.

This stuff is addicting.

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Why am I spending my morning
just drawing pictures of people
who post their photos on the web?
I don’t know?

Well, it started like this.
First, I wanted to practice my 3/4 views -
so I looked for faces.
But on the page that showed an angular man in a
3/4 view, there was a more interesting photo
of a front-view man who was bubbled out with strong glasses, and…..

Okay. So now I’m going to get to sending out
literature, taxes, laundry, yoga…..

It’s all good.

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Artist Frank Zeigler recently told me that he did his curves as angular lines for a man. Gotta remember that, I thought. And I drew:

But I got wrapped up in wrapping the glasses around the head. I guess I forgot to focus on what I was studying.

So I drew this man again:

Then I drew another man. His face was so round. I thought that it was impossible to angular the lines for him. But I discovered that advice need be taken with a grain of salt. When I neeeeeded a curve, I drew a rounded line. But there were plenty of times that I had choice. And by applying the angular-lines-for-male principle, I happily maintained the guy’s maleness - which might have been a problem otherwise:

I like this! So I thought ‘angular!’ again. Drew another man. This is good stuff. My regular pictures with the addition of a new awareness about drawings. I used to prefer to draw women, but now I think I grew up.