I think this one is a tad closer

Hi Adopedee, I think you've captured the essence of your subject here. My only note might be the size of the mouth. You've sketch it quite small. But to me the subject's mouth looks wider than normal in the reference photos. Maybe you'll want to play with that feature a bit? Just a thought. Cheers!

Hi there, great use of shapes, I decided to give it a go aswell :) If I can give a suggestion, you shouldn't ignore the room that the face ocuppies in the head. It looks like you are filling the headshape with the face whereas Dani´s face looks rather small in comparison to his head size. Think about it like the blank space in a composition, it gives room to breath.

Hey, adopebee Nice work. Took a look at all the work you posted and I can see that you're getting more likeness with each caricature and your style is evolving too. Congratulations on that. However, I noticed also that you're doing, in most cases just 1 caricature per person, and you're also taking a lot of time to do it, which kinda defeats the purpose of this exercise, in specific. If you want to study the likeness, that's ok. If you want to test your rough sketch skills, awesome. But to really exercise your designs skills, your creative decisions and your face analyzing abilities these short, experimental 2-3 minutes caricatures are the best. It's in this part of the process your main goal is throw every idea on the wall and see what stick. Test and experiment every possibility you can think of in a couple of minutes without getting attached and evaluate which one can lead to an interesting caricature that you can invest more time. Always taking too much time in the first sketch can stifle your creativity in the long run and make you use the the same exaggeration over and over again. So, take your time to experiment. Best Regards

Hi @adopebee, nice sketch! I took the class a year ago, so I'm still relatively new to caricature, but I gave making 3(+) min thumbnail sketches of these two images a shot, to see if I would exaggerate anything differently. In the first image her large round forehead was the first thing that caught my attention. I also noticed that her eyes were large, and widely spaced. Her eyebrows, ears, nose, lips and chin appeard small to me. Her jaw seemed strong, yet round. Her neck thin and shoulders bony. I also found the shape of her lips to be very characteristic. Her hair was also very wild and expressive In the second image, the brows felt wider and the forehead less dominant. The face felt longer, especially the mouth area, and I chose to shorten the nose. Her bone structure and mouth musculature, also looked very prominent in the contour. The thumbnail sketch is meant to be a kinda wild process were you follow your gut and jump right into things, but one thing that has helped me is to think of the bigger shapes before committing to details; thinking more about shape relationships, than structure and anatomy. Hope this helps :)

I also wanted to ask a another question. Having done quite a lot of traditional portraiture/life drawing I always find myself drifting back toward classical (representational) proportions... any more tips on managing this tendency... or simply a question of time and exposure to exaggeration?? Thanks

These are very good. i like how you're altering the proportions to fit the character. Even if is the same person you're varying the designs to better represent it. Very good! You're also getting more and more likeness as you sketch more. Keep experimenting with shapes. The Snoopy Dogg ones are the ones that show less likeness, but I feel they were the more productive of your studies because you really explored his face. You varied head shapes, sharpness of the face, proportions, angles... and as you're doing that you're discovering new possibilities and learning what works and what doesn't. Nice work, keep drawing and best regards.

Wow, really nice thumbnail sketches. They're all really different from each other. I would say that four of them could definitely be developed into nice caricature likenesses. The one on the upper left corner is probably the least successful. But the other four are very inspiring.

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