Caricatures

The National Cartoonists Society, of which I am a longtime member and a past president, just released a fun kid’s activity book as part of their “Cartooning for Kids” program. Originally this was going to be a printed book that the NCS would have available for schools, kids organization and for our children’s hospital visits, but the coronavirus scuttled all that. Instead, the NCS has made it available as a PDF that anyone can download and print out (although they will eventually have a…

Joel Dickie on Instagram: “A fun commission I painted of a grade 7 graduate from 2021! #caricature #caricatura #caricaturecommission #smile”

This series of “How to Draw Caricatures” tutorials are a just a small taste of a larger and much more in-depth book I wrote called The Mad Art of Caricature! The book is 175 full-color pages, lavishly illustrated and contains greatly expanded explanations of the concepts presented in these tutorials, as well and a great deal of additional material on caricaturing other facial features, posture, hands, expression and more, techniques on drawing from live models, doing caricature for freeplace…

These are perfect and hilarious.

http://monerohernandez.com.mx/HTML/GALERIA/chaplin.html

Subjects suggested onsite by the class, 10-15 minute sketches…

Freddie Mercury

Interested in seeing our artists' depiction of celebrities? Click on the celebrity of your choice to see them all! caricature by Court J Check out our Bush gallery! caricature by Marlene G Check out our Saddam gallery! caricature by Dean M Check out our Marilyn gallery! caricature by Roger H Check out our Elvis gallery

Here’s my Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Day 96. He’s a pretty easy caricature for most people because he has a very obvious head shape for exaggeration. Everything starts with the shape of the head. If you can see and exaggerate the head shape effectively, the rest of the caricature falls into place because the other shapes have to fit into that exaggerated head shape. Dwayne has a classic “bullet head” with a small cranial mass. It’s partly because he is bald, but mostly because he has a…

© www.caricature.com.sg © www.portraitworkshop.com