9/09/2017

Caricature Artist Houston - Tips For Drawing Attractive Caricatures

By Melissa Schmidt


Caricatures are portraits of exaggerated features of a person or a thing. To draw a person's caricature, you will need to understand the components of a face, and what makes one face noticeably different from another. While it takes knowledge and practice to identify particular features that makes a person unique, a program that emulates a caricature artist houston called a caricature generator can do just that.

There have been many times I have drawn someone, and when they look at the drawing I did of them, they get a flash of self-discovery that may very possibly change their lives forever. How wonderful is that? I remember a time I was drawing at a Grief Camp for children.

Yes, this was a camp for children who had lost one or both of their parents and were working through the horrifying issues that you can imagine a young mind would face in such a travesty. You could tell the first year campers from the third or fourth year campers. The new campers were like stones. No emotion, difficult to communicate with, closed to the outside world. These type of kids had a counselor with them at all times, waiting for the right moment to start the healing process.

I was drawing caricatures at the camp on the last Friday night, a celebration dance party of sorts. As always I had a crowd that would make a Tokyo elevator seem roomy. This adorable girl who barely looked up from staring at her shoes was my next subject.

Keep in mind that a caricature must have these elements: likelihood to the person you are drawing and its exaggeration. Without either of these two, there is no caricature. Caricatures also convey a message about the character being drawn or a situation.

The cartoon generator surely is one highly-advanced technology; having able to detect details we humans heuristically miss. With that said, using this program not only allows you to cartoon your face, it also gives you an idea of how people see you. Try it out to find out which features make what people think is you!

If you've been to a street fair or amusement park lately, you may have seen a cartoon artist in action. People stop to have their comic portraits drawn in a cartoon style, often with very large heads and tiny bodies doing something funny. If you'd like to learn how to draw these types of drawings, the book, Face Off: How to Draw Amazing Caricatures and Comic Portraits, by Harry Hamernik, can help.

The book starts by discussing materials and supplies you will need, including pencils, paper, markers and color pencils. I like the instructions for a do-it-yourself lap easel, which can be made cheaply if you have very basic handy construction skills.




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