Caricature Express

I’ll be drawing at a 50th Birthday Party tonight. At a local pub. Client requested Black/White Caricatures.

So I’m thinking - Perhaps I’d like to make them simple. Direct. Clean. To keep the Party moving - which is probably why they specified Black/White Caricatures.

Here are a few practices. This is fun. The pictures just roll right out of the marker. Not as wild as my usually Exaggerated Color Caricatures, but so much easier to make.
And
I think they look great in a little frame
by the door. in the den. in the kitchen……

BTW, I timed myself drawing these simple Caricatures.
Each one was done in 2 - 3 minutes. That’s about 25 pictures per hour -
much more than the 10 per hour that I usually recommend planning for.
I’m sure it would take longer at an event than from photos - guests are
human beings - but I’d still be confident of making more pictures this way.

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Aw, Sweetie - This is obviously not You.
Even my interest has gotten so far from the original girl
as I draw alone in my studio in the middle of the night.
I was just inspired to draw another picture because of
my previous Picture - not because of the person who
was the original subject.

I looked at my post here from January 3, 2010, and
I was intrigued to see what I could do if I curved that nose
all the way up - to match the nose-tip with the eyes. Just for Fun.

I like the Picture.

It’s just for Fun. I hope people understand that they are not
their picture. Actually, people look pretty much the same as
each other - eyes in the middle of the head - deviating ever so slightly
from Basic Proportions that are taught in any Portrait Class.
Caricature Artists are playing with Pictures - drawing Shapes,
not drawing Noses.

The girl that was the original inspiration for this picture
was as beautiful (or as funny-looking, depending on your point of view)
as any other human being. Remember - If you’re going to laugh at anyone else,
remember that You’re one of us too. I hope that my Caricatures will help people
to loosen up - help them not to take themselves so seriously - help them to relax
about what they look like. It’s Okay, people. It’s not possible to have a face
that doesn’t have two holes in the middle of it (a nose) - and that’s a funny design.
(Don’t get me started on Ears!)

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I can’t explain it. Why this makes me so happy.
It’s like, it’s like it’s the answer to my dreams.
Here I am once again, making up faces.
I guess it’s going to be my Thing this year.
Making up faces and keeping my backbone straight.
I feel Great!

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I actually do like to do my work. Today, for instance, even though I certainly didn’t Have to, I just felt like playing around with one of the pictures that I posted yesterday. I wanted to do more with it, but I wouldn’t have had time to give This much attention to any One picture during the party. This is something that I would do on unclocked time.

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This is just Fun. I usually say that I can’t draw without a reference - how would I
know what to draw? But last night I decided to just make up faces. Just because
I felt like having my pen moving
even though I was taking a break,
just watching a light easy movie (Baby Mama - It was pleasant).
I drew these five faces - Decided that I liked doing it so much that I was going to make lots of them this year:

Then, while I was scanning them just now, I made this one:

Now, That one was Really fun. Just put a mark on the paper - without thinking - and then just keep responding to the marks that I put down. The face just grew - just developed on it’s own.

Yes - I hope I do lots of that this year.