Caricature 101 – How to Exaggerate

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Caricature 101 – How to Exaggerate

Lesson by

Court Jones

in Art of Caricature

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Assignment

My suggestion for you to prepare for the next lesson is to familiarize yourself with the standard adult male head and create your own diagram including the appropriate marks showing the proportions and divisions.

Connie

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1yr

Black Friday for the win! I'm looking forward to this course. Been wanting to purchase it for awhile. Here are 3 Loomis head drawings to get started with the class. Straight on isn't too bad, but 3/4 and profile need more work.

Martha Muniz

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1yr

Welcome to the course, I hope you have fun :D You're starting on the right track, I would recommend focusing on the structure underneath the heads, especially by taking a look at the 3D Loomis model (and/or skull) from different angles. I know especially as the head rotates towards the profile view it can get a bit tricky, so having a 3D reference can help you picture the structure better as you place features. Especially for the 3/4 view, it helps to think of the head as a box, with each plane representing a side of the head, to keep things aligned in perspective. And for the profile view, a tip would be to measure the angle from chin to nose to forehead on a reference picture to create a guideline. I drew a quick sketchover to show this, plus an image from the head drawing lesson, which I highly recommend www.proko.com/s/iHTz. Hope this helps!

Nate Perk

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1yr

I made a caricature of Court Jones in my style.

Vue Thao

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2yr

I'll take this class later in late summer 2023. For now, I like to share my piece here. It's my first attempt to draw caricatures of various people from different countries.

Herman

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2yr

Great work. The third one has great exaggeration. You could keep the cheekbones and the nostrils a bit more symmetrical in all the drawings.

DoodleMick

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2yr

These look great. Keep up the good work.

@bexpet

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2yr

Arnaud BARBIER

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3yr

Hello Court, hello everybody, I'm very happy to join your classroom as I am fond of caricature and you are a maestro ! I would be very grateful if you look at my caricatures of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin. Thanks a lot. Best regards, Arno.

Ariel Dollopac

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3yr

@alanr

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3yr

Here are my studies of the Loomis head in various positions: front view, profile and 3/4 view. Followed the books to be as acurate as possinle.

Amogh Sharma

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3yr

Try to concentrate more on the solid form, instead of trying to get the shapes accurate. you could check out stan's structure videos

Kalp Bhavsar

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3yr

So I went down a bit of a rabbit hole trying to understand the average face. I suppose it's very complicated - the way we recognize faces and process visual information. There's too much biological, psychological, etc. science stuff that is beyond me but I discovered this thing called a composite portrait where different faces are used to create an average. A lot of interesting stuff. I don't know if it's in the premium course but could you make a video or discuss the idea of the "average face" more?

Court Jones

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3yr

It's easy to get tripped up thinking a lot about what the average face is. But don't put too much stress on it. It's not so much a scientific anatomical principle but rather a personal psychological construct. I think it's true, that, in general, most adult peoples' heads tend to follow the rule of thirds on the face (equal spacing from hairline to brow, brow to bottom of the nose, bottom of nose to the chin) and some other common qualities like the distance between the eyes being one eye width apart. And you can rely on a few of those big picture concepts when thinking about what to exaggerate. But what is more important than the "average head" diagram is your own personal gut feeling about what average means to you. For me, the average face is the average sum of all the faces I've ever drawn. I started as a live theme park and party artist and have drawn a hundred thousand people or more. So I have a pretty big reservoir to draw upon. The more faces you draw, the better your internal library of faces will become that you can base your exaggeration choices on.

@varve

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3yr

Yeah it's not easy to do ... I'm a little turned off by how "make your own average face!" is tossed out there for people who might want to draw caricatures of people who aren't white male western europeans. As if it's easy.

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Court Jones

Freelance commercial illustrator and caricature entertainer. He’s done a lot of editorial and product illustration and concept work for film and TV.