Finally I talk about interpreting the feature in terms of exaggeration and incorporating it into the whole. Following the anatomy lesson, I talk about different techniques to help “see” the shape of the feature and understand how to draw it, including realistic proportion. I’m not a big believer in memorizing every anatomical name but I do believe you must have a good working knowledge of how a feature is put together in order to have a good command over the drawing of said feature. My method for teaching the individual features begins with a lesson on real anatomy. I will try to center my discussion on that which applies to a broader range of styles than just my own. Therefore those with different sensibilities and styles can take from it what they will and apply what makes sense to them, and ignore the rest. In these next series of tutorials some aspects of what I talk about will relate specifically with a style of caricature like my own… based on cartoon line either inked or in some other medium. What I have written about previously can apply to almost any style of caricature, from the richly painted to the most minimalist of line. Therefore after I have gone over the information in my pervious tutorials, I switch gears an concentrate on teaching rookie live caricaturists how to draw the individual features, both how to see them, exaggerate them and how to draw them in line to best effect. Since every face is different this is an exercise in personal observation and decision. I’ve written in past tutorials on drawing caricatures that you can’t really teach someone to draw caricatures… that is more about developing their “sight” and observation skills and also developing an ability to find that which make an individual face unique and exaggerating it. This is a must have book for anyone interested in caricature, cartooning or humorous illustration. 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 illustration and for MAD Magazine.
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