Caricature Express

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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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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