Finishing Your Drawing – Caricature Final Sketch

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Finishing Your Drawing – Caricature Final Sketch

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Court Jones

in Art of Caricature

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Assignment

If you’re following along with these lessons, you’ll want to take your best abstraction sketch and trace over it to create your final caricature drawing. And then spend some time on it to add shading in whatever medium you feel comfortable with.

Thieum

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3mo

A new caricature practice with the four steps: thumbnails sketch, rough sketch, abstraction and final sketch

Patrick Bosworth

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3mo

Excellent! I love the direction you took this one! I like how you separated the planes of the face and nose in the rough sketch. The highlight between the plane changes, and change of contour helps sell the dimensionality of that rhythm. The final sketch is missing that plane change and the shadow kinda flattens the face a bit. Really nice work, keep it up! Hope this helps!

Arnaud BARBIER

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2yr

Hello, here is the final sketch of John Boham !

Court Jones

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2yr

Hi Arnaud. The Abstraction sketch is pretty well done. It's clean and easy to see your construction rhythm lines. However, I think you would benefit from adding horizontal rhythm lines for the central axis of the eyes and also the line of the mouth opening. And maybe for the small circular nodes at the corners of the mouth. Because in your final drawing of John, the eyes are not aligned properly with the angle of the head. And the mouth is not centered well under the nose. Smiles can often be crooked. But if it is an accident and you didn't mean to make it crooked, you should go back and do your abstraction more carefully. Remember, the purpose of the abstraction is to help map the face and place the features in the correct positions and orientation, relative to the angle of the head. Also, his nose does not look to be at the correct angle in your drawing. It seems to be pointed down to the left too much. And his head seems to be looking slightly to the right.

Arnaud BARBIER

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2yr

John Bonham sorry !

Nikolaos Polychronopoulos

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3yr

Here is the process of my caricature of David Gallagher. Any critiques and advices are welcomed.

Jesper Axelsson

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3yr

Nice!

Nikolaos Polychronopoulos

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3yr

Cab Calloway caricature. Created digitally with Procreate on iPad Pro. I really had fun with this piece. Any critiques and advices are welcomed.

João Bogo

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3yr

Nice job, Nikolaos. I consider this a successful caricature. The exaggeration is on point and it shows a lot of likeness and personality. So take what I'm about to say as a personal opinion, because I don't know where you want to take your art. I feel it lacks a bit of structure. The original photo has a very bright light in the side of his face that you didn't include in your final drawing. It would help a lot the value arrangement as it would give it more contrast, and also it would show where the face turn helping it show the 3-d form. His right eye higher is bothering me. From what I can see, he closes more his left eye but, still, both eyes are in the same level. The dark shadow in the corner of his mouth feels out of place without the bright side light also. Value arrangement is easier to change. Structure...well that's the problem. If you want to have more close representations use the Reilly abstractions to align the features. If you want to do caricatures that also distort the skull I would advise to exaggerate it more. Make it more intentional, study and experiment how moving a feature up or down impact the rest of the face. But, again, The hardest part of caricature, exaggeration and likeness, you're doing it well. You just need a few tweaks here and there to find your voice. So keep drawing, keep studying and keep experimenting. Best Regards.

@myccal

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3yr

Here is my final sketch. I worked over the abstraction from the previous assignment. I believe I was able to fix a few things that were not working in the rough sketch. Had a lot of fun working on this. Always looking for suggestions on ways to improve.

Court Jones

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3yr

That's a pretty successful caricature. Good likeness and nice exaggeration. I'm sure most of us know what the actor looks like, but it's always best to post your photo reference next to your artwork so people can make more informed comments and refer to specific parts of the anatomy.

Dominik Zeillinger

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3yr

Hi @myccal, I recognized Robert Downey Jr. in your drawing, so this most important goal of a caricature is achieved. You really got his smile. And I have two suggestions: 1. Your drawing is quite a reaÎlistic style. In this style it is important, that the face feels right concerning the anotomy. If I cover the eyes of your drawing, everthing feels allright. But the eyes feel strange. They seem to be from another refence. 2. I do not agree with your caricature joices of eyes and nose. If you put the eyes that close I think the nose should be much longer. And for my taste the eyes are too close.