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Felicitas
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2yr
added comment inDrawing Caricatures - The Thumbnail Sketch
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This is my first try at caricatures. Pretty hard to wrap my head around exaggerating facial features, as I usualy tend to draw realistically. But that is why I am here in the first place. I am struggeling with capturing the likeliness of a person. So I thought, learning to recognize the features that make a face distinguishable might work best when learning caricature.
As my first muses I chose Willem Dafoe and Charles Gray. Are there any rules concerning posting reference fotos?
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1yr
Hey there! A tip I found for getting down likeness in realism is to take a look at the distribution between the thirds of the face. The loomis head guide divides the face into perfect thirds as a reference, but each person has a different proportion between the landmarks (forehead to brow ridge, brow ridge to nose, nose to chin). Noticing the person's deviation from the average perfect thirds can really help get the likeness into place. There's a video that goes more in-depth into the topic: https://www.proko.com/s/xU4i
But focusing on caricature for now, I see you're trying out different face shapes, which is great. You could also focus on a different feature that you think stands out, e.g. a big nose, an angular chin, small eyes, etc. each time to see what you feel takes it into an interesting direction.
