Caricature Express

Laugh at yourself ~

Admit it - The Human Form is Funny!
We tell ourselves that we have Beauty.
Or that we’re okay.
Or or that ‘nobody will notice’…..
But for what?

We’re all funny-looking. And we’re all beautiful.

We’re all funny-looking. And we’re all beautiful. And mostly, we are all skin stretched over skeletons – skeletons with those mandibles hopefully fully of rooted teeth – skeletons with those hard foreheads and occipital ridges.

Any face. With 2 holes smack in the middle.
And hard foreheads. And those choppers behind the lips.
And don’t get me started on
Ears….
Ever imagine the skull underneath? We are as much our skulls as
a painting of a tablecloth shows the form of the table beneath it.

I love you all.

Not a job. But just for practice, I decided to draw Bill O’Reilly Hula-Dancing.
Because I saw him on tv, and I was real impressed with his graceful hands.
And I could imagine him hula’ing ’still waters’ for ‘take it easy, now….’

I worked in Colored Pencil on Toned Paper.
Also changed the background to White in PhotoShop.
It’s most interesting, how I did not change any of the Colors on the 2 copies - It’s most interesting that the shirt looks so much duller on the white background:

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Constant learning. This is why it’s better to hire an
EXPERIENCED Caricaturist.

I’ll frequently Review my performance after an event.
The photos help me do that.

In this case, even if I had had more time to prepare for my last-minute job,
I wouldn’t have known that I would have preferred making the Uniforms
more uniform. I didn’t know that until after I experienced the event.
Well, now I’m ready for the next one. Almost. I still hope to tweak the uniforms,
but I don’t want to stay up ALL night just reviewing what I’ve done already.

It was Fun - to redraw some of those Boy Scouts from the photos that
I just posted. Even though I was trying to come up with a Uniform uniform,
I still had to redraw the Caricatures.

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Yeow. Client just came to the Studio.
Brought me a deposit for
TONIGHT.

So much to prepare.
And she wants me to draw Outline-Only -
because she wants to get as many pictures
as possible in the given time.

I don’t usually do Outline-Only -
It feels more like
cranking them out
than doing Artwork.
But it is an Option I offer.

So now - get ready to draw a lot of Boy Scouts.
First I wanted to see what would happen if I choose a Yellow Outline -
If Golden-Boy sits in front of me:

Good thing I practice first. I can see that
that isn’t a good idea. I had to increase the time on that picture
by going back in with the black marker. The Yellow didn’t show up.

Okay. I hope I stick to Black Outlines. Or Blue. Or Orange…..

But what if someone sits down who has dark skin -
Here I’ll try one in which I add just a little bit of Shading.
Sometimes, you just can’t stop with Just the outline:

And……………
We’re Off!

I am absolutely smitten. Can’t stop.

Finally relaxing after a long day or just doing my Artwork,
I started watching the movie ‘Analyze That’.
Had to stop to draw a character from the movie.
(Played by the actor Joe Viterelli)
Then, I drew it again. Had to exaggerate it some more:

I’m really in the mood to have a lot of
Studio Caricature commissions.

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