Caricature Express

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.

Art - a struggle? Why? It can be fun.

An artist from Rochester, Bippy Boyer, recently helped me to draw a complicated hat.
He simplified it into 3 strokes. Voila! I’m happy. When you know the answers, it’s no more struggle:

So tonight I tested it out. I drew the following hats that I found by surfing the web:

Success. Another skill under my belt. Thank You, Bippy.

Yesterday I was driving through Canarsie on my way to Park Slope. Took a break next to a vacant lot that had this wall around it. I was inspired by the real graffiti there:

I tried to make sense out of it - Just what did this kid do? I decided that he squashed the drunken-styled letters together, and added ‘graffiti-stuff’. I wish I had some photos of the big graffiti productions here to show you. I tried to turn this graffiti study into a production-type image:

Good - especially the Wesley one. But it was too tedious to help me represent this attitude (when appropriate) at Caricature Parties. So I went back to the original reference, copied it, and tried to apply That:

Maybe I’m just making up stories, but I wonder if Grafitti might be ‘ghetto’-art. Crowded conditions, not enough supplies so they had to squash their letters together on the paper….

It worked! Yesterday’s studying worked!

Here are some photos from last night. I applied yesterday’s studying - the couples were done with the amorphic shape principle. I also like the dark outline that I used to bring the two people together as ‘one’ shape:

We can compare them with some other pictures that I created recently - just about a week ago. I like these pictures too, but I prefer the new stuff that I did with amorphic shapes for couples. Here are last the pictures that I made before yesterday’s studying:

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