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Caricature head shapes12/8/2023 ![]() Exaggeration- Without some form of exaggeration, or a departure from the exact representation of the subject’s features, all you have is a portrait.All good caricatures incorporate a good likeness of their subjects. Likeness- If you can’t tell who it is supposed to be, then it is not successful.So, what are the universal elements all caricatures have that identify them as caricatures? I would say there are three essential elements that transcend style and medium and must be present in a caricature: Obviously there is a connection beyond a common technique, school or format. How can you, when the word encompasses the elegant, minimalist lines of Al Hirschfeld to the lavish, value and color soaked paintings of Sebastian Kruger to the graphic, geometrical collages of David Cowles and everything in between? Despite the wild differences in style and technique, “caricature” is the tag that is placed on any of these works of art without hesitation. These kinds of things always start out with a definition, but “caricature” is a hard thing to pigeonhole into a single sentence. Therefore this is not instruction for just the live caricaturist but for any artist interested in caricature for any purpose. However all of that can be applied to more studio orientated caricature work and I have also added points and concepts directly from the less time-constrained world of caricature illustration. ![]() This is the first of a series of articles I will post here on The MAD Blog about my theories, methods and processes concerning how to draw caricatures.A lot of this information is part of what I teach my theme park artists, so it is derived partly from the approach of doing live, quick-draw caricatures. Part One: Basic Theory and the Five Shapes 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 freelance illustration and for MAD Magazine. February 14th, 2008 | Posted in Tutorials ![]()
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