Line drawing

Back at the line drawings again. (Er, line drawing, at any rate.)


Prophet? Really?

I can't speak to that, but he is a very entertaining mind reader!

references: How to Draw Caricatures

Tom Richmond has begun publishing tutorials on creating a caricatures!

• Part One: How to Draw Caricatures: The 5 Shapes
• Part Two: Relating the Features

[I'll be editing this post adding the links to the rest of the tutorials as they come down the pipe.]

I hope to make some time to work on Tom's lessons as well as getting back to John's. I've previously posted a line drawing or three of mine which are clearly not caricatures.

Here are some older more humourous line drawings, which I'll call "cartoon-ish," because I don't feel they are quite at the caricature level.

(Please do not reproduce these images without my permission!)




And one a little more serious, based on a photograph:

I'll get there one day! Thanks Tom, for posting such wonderful resources!

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PS: Can anyone out there identify the subjects of the above cartoons? [Bonus points if you can do it without Googling "David Acer."]

What makes a face, a face?

I love the work of Al Hirschfeld. I've never quite figured out how to do caricatures, but I want to learn. I'm starting with the baby-step of line drawings.

It's easy to make a face -- two eyes a nose and a mouth. But how do you make a face, THAT face, with just a few lines?

I'm experimenting by 'tracing' (via Photoshop) photos* to see what to add and subtract to make the face become the person.

[Edited to add a big "mahalo" to skeet for being supportive of my practice and providing the inspiration for the first two images below!]








If I get some free time, I'll post some line drawings of days gone by, for entertainment!

*If you think I'm using a photo of you and you're offended by the likeness (or lack thereof), let me know and I'll take the image down.

Line drawing

I hesitate to call this style a caricature. Mostly because it doesn't really take any artistic liberties with the subject matter. So I'll refer to it as a line drawing. I'm working on this one for a client of mine. (This is being displayed with his permission.)

Later I'll post some that I did a few years back so you can see how the style has changed over time.