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Capturing the Beauty of Monochrome Oil Portraits
A caricature is an amusing drawing that can make a boring portrait into an appealing cartoon-like representation. One thing that makes caricatures amazing is the way they are distorted or drawn with exaggeration but not losing their identity.
No matter how the nose of a person is being drawn too big for his face, you can still recognize the person being depicted on the caricature. This, indeed, makes caricatures a lot more appealing than the usual portraits. It also makes drawing more fun.
If you are interested in learning how to draw a caricature, one thing that you need to learn is to learn how draw people’s faces in correct proportion. You can do this by starting out with a photo and drawing it as it is.
Learn how to look for the identifying features of a photo. Indeed, if you want to learn how to draw a caricature, you have to learn how to look at a face and what features of the face that you can exaggerate. If your subject has a big nose, or a double chin, or rounded eyes, and these are the first features of the face that ‘jump at you’ when you first look at it, then you got the part that you can exaggerate.
Some faces may have difficult features for exaggeration, but with constant practice, you can actually learn how to distinguish them easily. There are also distinct ways on how to draw the different features of the face to make it look like a cartoon. You may learn how to draw the eyes, the nose, the chin, the hair etc., like the way it is on cartoons. Solid black lines are often used in this process as well as simple lines. There may be a little shading but just a little.
If you are interested to learn the different elements on how to draw cartoons, it is important to get a detailed guide that will help you step-by-step on the process. A video tutorial can also be good however.
Now, if you have drawn your photo by pencil or by bold black lines, you can then start drawing several caricatures that exaggerates different features of the face. You can draw one that has an exaggerated nose, and one with an exaggerated eyes or chin – then you can choice from among the caricatures which resembles most to the photo you have, or that which the person can still be identified even with the distortion or the exaggeration.
Indeed, it is important to keep in mind that the most important elements of a caricature is its likelihood to the subject or the person you are drawing. Without likelihood, it cannot be a caricature. Another important element is the exaggeration of the drawing. Of course, caricatures must have exaggerations or else, they are not caricatures. Aside from these, caricatures also convey a message about the character being drawn.
Carolyn Anderson loves to draw, sketch and paint. If your interest is on how to draw a caricature, check out Fun With Caricatures. Also check out Draw Cartoons With Chad, a tutorial to help you learn how to draw cartoons fast and easy.
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