Caricature Essentials From Start to Finish

Art of Caricature

Fundamental Skills(60 Lessons)
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Arnaud BARBIER
Hello, this is the same final sketch but with colors.
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Jesper Axelsson
Hi @Arnaud BARBIER, nice caricature! I'm pretty new to caricaturing (I took Court's course in 2020), but I've looked through some of your recent posts and will try my best to help you further: - I think you could benefit from paying more attention to the angle of things. In the reference you used for this caricature of Emmanuel Macron for example, his eyes seem to be angled inward and his ear has a clear backward angle, while the hairline in front of the ear is vertical. I think caricaturing this could bring even more likeness into your drawing. - While exploring caricature, I think you would benefit a lot from taking a course that teaches you more about the fundamentals of drawing. The better you know the fundamentals, the more freely you'll be able to express yourself in caricature. To make an analogy, you could think of the fundamentals as the language, and caricature as a topic. The more confident you are in the language, the more freely you can express your thoughts in the topic. If you're looking for a drawing fundamentals course, I think you would appreciate the Figure Drawing Fundamentals course. New Master's Academy's "Beginner's Guide To Drawing" could be a good complement. https://www.nma.art/courses/drawing-guide-for-beginners/ Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
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Arnaud BARBIER
Hello, this is a final sketch of Emmanuel Macron, president of France (with the thumbnails, the rough sketch and the abstraction).
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Kalp Bhavsar
Hello Everyone, I was really into Court Jones's Caricature course. I am still an amateur to understanding anatomy and I thought exploring caricature would be an engaging way to think about anatomy. I really think learning to exaggerate form and facial features is key to understanding likeness. So my caricature skills would help me make better photorealistic portraits. As such, I came up with a cool project to play around with caricature. I made caricatures of all my former high school classmates (just graduated!). I did these with charcoal pencils and they're each about 8" by 5". Obviously I used more than one reference photo but for privacy's sake and the photo limit I'll just post one of them. It was mostly an exercise in trying to capture the likeness. Personally I think I could have tried to exaggerate even more and push the likeness to its limits, but I'm curious to see what y'all think. Please let me know. Thanks. If you need to comment on a particular caricature just identify the number of the picture. Eg: Picture 3 Critique:... Picture 1 is the reference. All the other ones follow sequentially. PS: I also did a self caricature a few months prior to these ones. You can check that one out here: https://www.proko.com/s/t1mf Also let me know what kind of caricature art you like.
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Freelance commercial illustrator and caricature entertainer. He’s done a lot of editorial and product illustration and concept work for film and TV.
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