Caricature Express

I was just studying the asymmetry of faces - Pictures look so much more interesting when we are aware of the graceful changes from one side of the face to the other. Because they’re connected - like a vine.

To increase my awareness of that, I just took photos of two random people, put them into PhotoShop, and cut each picture in half. then I flipped the remaining half over - to see just what each side of the face is doing. I have so many gigs this week, but I hope I get back to this to draw them properly - Connecting the changes gracefully.

Here’s a photo of a woman. I duplicated one side. Then I duplicated the other side. Her differences are mostly in the mouth and eyebrows. Notice how much more approachable people look when we see the two differing sides in one face:

And here’s a photo of a boy. I duplicated one side. Then I duplicated the other side. His differences are mostly in the nose and eyebrows:

I could have done this with anybody. All people are uneven, unique. I want to train myself to be able to notice the differences right away.

Oh dear. I looked at the pictures I just posted, and I figured that I’d better warm up on hands. so I made these:

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I drew these on my time off.
Always thinking, imagining
stuff for these drawings that I do:

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If you make the slightest difference in a picture, it comes out looking completely different.

Here I was drawing to see what would happen if I pulled the same long ‘moustache-area’ down or forward. Vertically or horizontally. And it ended up looking like a completely different person:

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Oh - this is funny. I made up a face last night, thinking about
that sides of faces thing again (see post of September 15, 2009).
It’s just a regular picture in which I was strongly aware of the side
of the face. I worked on the idea some more again this morning, and
I came here to post about it. So I looked for the original message.
It’s so funny - the face I made up is so similar to the face
I had made up that day too:

then, this morning, I drew ‘the same’ face that I drew last
night - but I pulled the side out longer. This is what I came
up with. Yikes - that looks too weird:

and I drew it yet a 3rd time. This time, making the side of the face
narrower. Here’s what I came up with:

Not quite sure where this will take me - Maybe, just maybe I might
want to draw a very thin person with a narrow face some day.
But I don’t think, unless perhaps I see a very skinny someone with
very weird big hair? Oh, what’s really wrong is the neck. It’s not
supporting that head at all. So I went back in with my mouse
and added to the neck (I want a Cintiq!):

I have to come back to this idea another time.
I’m still not satisfied that I studied it enough.

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