@ squidbunny: Thanks, yeah I was thinking the same thing, maybe I should elongate her legs as much as possible, kind of screwed up from the start with the composition.
@ PierceNeck: It is Sara Fabel indeed, a beautiful pose that inspired me to do a painting.
Honeycombcakes: sorry for the extremely late reaction, I have a blog but I really don't update it as often as I should (kind of like this thread here). It's called neveneffect.blogspot.com.
And thank you tynic!
Thanks Halen, you may be right about the higlight. At first I had her skin a lot more pale and greyish-white, but I thought it was too cold, so tried adding more warmth to it, probably killed a lot of the highlights in that process.
Thanks man, I'll need it
That was digital actually, drawn in Photoshop.
Here's that dude from a television series or two you might have seen:
I'm trying to do caricatures, but halfway in I always keep reverting to more of a portrait, making me end up with something that is not really a portrait nor a caricature. Sucks.
Are you going for a newspaper caricature, or a street-gig caricature?
If you answered "news paper style" stop reading immediately and seek help from The New Yorker.
If you answered street performer, read on...
I have experience working freelance for talent agencies, but I have no advice if you arent trying to make $15 in 15 minutes or less.
Ultimately, you are gonna have to open up some mad magazine and copy the old pro's. But I'd lose the paint, and computer for a nice bullet tip black marker.
The real deal with a caricature as far as I've been tought is that it is generally black and white, and depends solely on line weight to transfer info... generally. And it is not a labor in and of itself, but the excrement of hours and hours of practicing a largely under-appreciated skill.
Ideally, I would someday like to do the kind of work Jason Seiler or Tom Richmond are doing. I'm not sure if that is newspaper style (we unfortunately don't have any caricatures in newspapers here in Belgium) but that's what I'm going for. But I also realise I am not even close to being able to produce that kind of work yet.
I once read a quote by John Kascht somewhere, he said that a caricature is a portrait with the volume turned up. But to me it is a different beast entirely. It's like a whole other mindset. Just keep practicing I guess!
but I have no advice if you arent trying to make $15 in 15 minutes or less.
Do you mean that I should be doing street gigs to improve instead of what I'm trying now?
Our resident caricature artist pineappleherb has some pretty good stuff. I feel like when I try caricatures, they turn out better from memory. I could be completely wrong, but it feels right to me.
Yes, if you want to be good like Tom Richmond you need to work in public. And you need to copy his drawings so you can preload his style for your own use.
Speed is more important than a good drawing. So don't labor on anything more than 20 minutes.
You want to keep your audience happy and not bored. And you want to make the most money per hour that you can.
I'll bring my camera with me to this gig I got on sunday and post pictures of anything I make that is decent.
The best no pressure gig is the hourly one. Then you can masterpiece your portraitees.
Thanks for the link ninjai, there's some cool stuff in that thread!
francium, thanks for the words of wisdom.
I've done a little bit of the public drawing, well twice actually, but always felt stifled having crowds look over my shoulder and asking questions and all. That and not being proficient enough at consistently getting good results made it more of an unpleasant ordeal than a fun experience. Haven't done it since.
So if I understand correctly you're a caricaturist yourself? How do you cope with all of the extra baggage that comes with working in public?
Oh man, I'm a bag of nerves lol. I can't even draw in a coffee shop without fear of someone seeing I'm drawing and asking to look...
Do you sing karaoke?
It's like that I guess, once I'm in a place where I'm under a spot light, I just accept my fate and draw. The result has been that nobody cares, and because you are drawing a subject that is often the friend of the audience, you usually have funny conversations about what exaggeration to give him/her.
I'm a [budding] caricature artist. I started ten years ago when I was in high school and I thought i really sucked, but Errybody loved giving the 17yr old drinks at the conventions I went to work at, so I felt encouraged. Did some sixflags where I began to copy people like tom Richmond. But quit due to slave working conditions.
It's been a long time since I've been paid for it. So Sunday is going to be interesting for me.
It is more of a performance than anything. You must talk...
I do like comics, have been meaning to try some sequential art for a while now, never got around to it though. If I can come up with some kind of storyline I'll give it a shot!
Don't have a tumblr yet, I might start one if I can up my game a bit. In any case, thanks for the push!
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That is a pretty sweet start though generally. I'm glad this thread is back. Great stuff always.
@ PierceNeck: It is Sara Fabel indeed, a beautiful pose that inspired me to do a painting.
Here's a quick doodle I did today:
based on these random lines from the cup o doodle blog:
And thank you tynic!
Here's a new thingy:
Kinda wish there was a little more highlight to it to bring out the light. Great composition though.
Here's the starting phase of another one:
facebook.com/LauraCatherwoodArt
Here's what I came up with in the end, the flames were kind of a happy accident so I decided to stick with it:
This is a 10-minute quick study from the sartorialist, trying to emulate oils:
Love the depth created with the shadows, very beautiful !
Trying to capture the Belgium soccer coach:
Some things still feel off about this one, maybe I messed up the eyes by making em blue.
character research for my short film
What are you using on the sartorial sketches, paper and medium? It looks really clean.
That was digital actually, drawn in Photoshop.
Here's that dude from a television series or two you might have seen:
I'm trying to do caricatures, but halfway in I always keep reverting to more of a portrait, making me end up with something that is not really a portrait nor a caricature. Sucks.
If you answered "news paper style" stop reading immediately and seek help from The New Yorker.
If you answered street performer, read on...
I have experience working freelance for talent agencies, but I have no advice if you arent trying to make $15 in 15 minutes or less.
Ultimately, you are gonna have to open up some mad magazine and copy the old pro's. But I'd lose the paint, and computer for a nice bullet tip black marker.
The real deal with a caricature as far as I've been tought is that it is generally black and white, and depends solely on line weight to transfer info... generally. And it is not a labor in and of itself, but the excrement of hours and hours of practicing a largely under-appreciated skill.
I hope this helps some.
Ideally, I would someday like to do the kind of work Jason Seiler or Tom Richmond are doing. I'm not sure if that is newspaper style (we unfortunately don't have any caricatures in newspapers here in Belgium) but that's what I'm going for. But I also realise I am not even close to being able to produce that kind of work yet.
I once read a quote by John Kascht somewhere, he said that a caricature is a portrait with the volume turned up. But to me it is a different beast entirely. It's like a whole other mindset. Just keep practicing I guess!
Do you mean that I should be doing street gigs to improve instead of what I'm trying now?
His thread.
Speed is more important than a good drawing. So don't labor on anything more than 20 minutes.
You want to keep your audience happy and not bored. And you want to make the most money per hour that you can.
I'll bring my camera with me to this gig I got on sunday and post pictures of anything I make that is decent.
The best no pressure gig is the hourly one. Then you can masterpiece your portraitees.
francium, thanks for the words of wisdom.
I've done a little bit of the public drawing, well twice actually, but always felt stifled having crowds look over my shoulder and asking questions and all. That and not being proficient enough at consistently getting good results made it more of an unpleasant ordeal than a fun experience. Haven't done it since.
So if I understand correctly you're a caricaturist yourself? How do you cope with all of the extra baggage that comes with working in public?
Do you sing karaoke?
It's like that I guess, once I'm in a place where I'm under a spot light, I just accept my fate and draw. The result has been that nobody cares, and because you are drawing a subject that is often the friend of the audience, you usually have funny conversations about what exaggeration to give him/her.
I'm a [budding] caricature artist. I started ten years ago when I was in high school and I thought i really sucked, but Errybody loved giving the 17yr old drinks at the conventions I went to work at, so I felt encouraged. Did some sixflags where I began to copy people like tom Richmond. But quit due to slave working conditions.
It's been a long time since I've been paid for it. So Sunday is going to be interesting for me.
It is more of a performance than anything. You must talk...
In any case, here's a portrait study from last week, 2.5hrs in:
And a digital one from some time back while I'm at it:
unfinished, but as far as I'll take it I think.
Are you interested comics at all, because if you are you should totally give it a shot!
Do you have a tumblr? Because if not you totally should, I'm sure some of these celebrity portraits would catch like wild fire.
Don't have a tumblr yet, I might start one if I can up my game a bit. In any case, thanks for the push!