Caricature Express

It’s a good thing that I ‘learn my lines’ before I’m ‘On’.

Now I tried the brown marker on a tshirt that I had drawn
at home several years ago. It works! I’m constantly developing
my abilities.

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And now, just a little bit of gray shades, and look at how much
more dramatic it looks:

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Line Quality makes such a difference.
I just drew two pictures - basically the same face -
the main difference is Line Quality.

See how differently the pictures look:

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I just watched the movie, Corky Romano. Tempted to draw while watching, as usual. I chose this actor, Richard Roundtree - because of some parties that I have coming up. I’ve been getting a lot of Parties to do Caricatures on the white t-shirts that are supplied by my clients. I usually don’t color the whole face when I’m working on the t-shirts, but I didn’t feel Confident on the times that I did want to color the whole face. Since I would have wanted to color Roundtree’s face, I decided to draw him.

And instead of using PhotoShop or Color-sticks as I usually would, I used a heavy brown Chartpack marker. First trying to leave out Highlight, trying to shape with Contours….ick. Then I finally found a technique that worked! A quick, simple technique to color an entire face, add in a few shadows, and Yes! I’m thrilled with it!

I’m just in such a good mood. I learned 3-D Face-Painting today and applied it to the best skull I ever face-painted yet. Will the growth never cease? I’ll post a photo of that Face-Painting if/when I ever find it in the thousands of photos that I have here…..

To be continued……

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Watching movies again. This time it was Charlie’s Angels.
I drew the Angels quickly - almost as though I was at a party.

That’s okay. People like to look ‘normal’. Um. But. I’m
a Caricature Artist! We exaggerate. We want to really see what’s
unique about each face.

So I gave a litl more time to each face. Just a little. With a predraw.
I did a 2nd one of Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore. But I was stumped
Cameron Diaz. Slept on it. Still could not figure out what to do for
Cameron. Finished a bit of housework, and decided to get back to
the pictures. And, Eureka! I knew just what to do for Cameron!
Drew it out easily.

But then I was no longer satisfied with Drew Barrymore’s exaggerated
Caricature. She’s So unique. Got to get it. Got to get it.
I scribbled. I changed things. I tried to remember my vision.
And, Yes! Her 3rd Caricature is It!

So that’s it. That’s what makes one picture
a very nice picture. And what makes another one
Magnificent ArtWork.

It’s hard enough to make it happen in the short time I take with
each picture at a Party. It’s almost impossible with guests who
tell me not to draw their unique feature. It’s almost impossible
with guests who try to hide what they look like (like a person
with a huge set of teeth who clamps her mouth Shut so I won’t
be able to draw it. Or a person who carefully pulls her hair over
her pointy ears. etc.) But for those times when it can flow
right out, That’s Fun! To see what I can make!

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