Caricature Express

Now I’m trying to relax more while drawing.
Beautiful approach for beautiful drawings.
Relax - now, that doesn’t mean to sleep!

I’m fluctuating between two approaches.
I guess I’ll work on both of them,
and use whichever one is appropriate at the time when I’m drawing.

The first approach - 3-d shapes. Like wedge, egg, pyramid, book,
dish-detergent-bottle. That sort of stuff. Definite decisions in the predraw instead of
wild scribbling. Here are 2 pictures (just the line-art) using that approach.
I was able to sit back and relax.
I like the results. Even before putting in any shading, it looks real solid:

Until I do maaaaannyyy of those though, I think the second approach will work better at parties.
It’s much faster. NO predraw at all this time. Just basic knowledge and simple shapes
- drawing from the inside out. As you can see in the following sample, though, this approach
usually grows too big for the page.

But when I try things like limited predraw of outsides before doing insides with marker
it gets stiff and boring to me. So now I’m thinking
of trying athird approach - no predraw - outside-in.
Stay tuned - I hope to post those studies soon.

Meanwhile, here’s the picture drawn from the inside out - with no predraw:

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Studying continues.

Today I decided to simplify. To make my job EEEEasy.
At first, I thought this was perfect. Here’s a simple picture drawn with basic answers:

‘This will make my job easy’, I thought. So I drew another man. Ick - what a crummy picture. I had to draw him again. The 2nd one came out easily, but I can’t very well draw everybody 2ce at a party:

Maybe that was just a difficult Caricature. I tried the simple approach with another photo. Counfounded again. I was only satisfied with the 2nd picture:

Sooooo, it might look easy, it might be fun, but I still have to focus and work at it when I’m creating Artwork. There’s no easy way out of working. Keeping it real.

Custom-Made - That’s the word!

I was recently asked to describe
my Studio-Work. I do so many
different things there. So whatever
it is, it’s Custom-Made. People
have so many different ideas - and
I design something tangible from their
esoteric Words.

Perhaps I should Title this blog “Cast of Thousands” (like the old movies). There’s so many people in the world - so many people I’m going to draw.

I’m even thinking of not taking photos for a while. Like in the olden days before my cellphone could take photos. Actually, I was even doing this work before we had cellphones. Anyway, here’s another batch. These were taken at an Office Party in NYC!

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Exaggerrrrrr Ashun.

I’m at it again. Just blabbing on the phone and these pictures came out. The first picture of each person was just a quick, simple picture. But then I drew it again, and……

At least this time I liked them all - even the first simple ones. There’s something good about both ways.

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