Enhancing the Likeness – Rough Sketch Caricature

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Enhancing the Likeness – Rough Sketch Caricature

Lesson by

Court Jones

in Art of Caricature

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Assignment

If you’re following along in your studio, practice your own rough sketching by taking some of your best thumbnail sketches to the next level. Draw more carefully, but don’t worry about making them perfect. We’ll make them perfect later. Just make them good enough. Remember…baby steps.

Thieum

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7mo

Here are 3 attempts at drawings Rossy de Palma. My cross hatching is very rough... I'm not really happy with the likeness, except maybe for the third one, where the features seem to be closer to hers. I tend to spend too much time on each drawing because if I don't detail the drawing enough, I have trouble estimating the likeness. But because of that, I no longer want to attempt another exaggeration. I need to draw much faster!

Martha Muniz

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7mo

Super cool work! I love how you pushed each one in a different direction, and they all still capture her likeness in my opinion. If speed is something you'd like to work on, you could try back-to-back thumbnail sketches of a person limiting yourself at 3-4 minutes, then switching to the next person. That'd give you a sense of an immediate impression and how to dive in right away.

Patrick Bosworth

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7mo

Excellent work, I think you got a nice likeness with each!

@tuvia

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1yr

Jesper Axelsson

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1yr

Nice! - It could help to think of the movement of the parts of the face when designing your caricature. Capturing the expression is part of capturing the likeness. When I look at the reference, I get the feeling the the corners of the mouth are being pulled up and out. They push up the cheeks and it feels like they together with the eyes dive in toward the nose. In your drawing the corners of the mouth go down instead. Just like when trying the capture the pose of a figure, it helps to imagine doing (or actually doing) the expression yourself. What does making the expression feel like. Is your drawing expressing that? I hope this helps :)

Arnaud BARBIER

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3yr

Hello, a rough sketch of another rock star, John Bonham, the drummer of Led Zeppelin:

Arnaud BARBIER

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3yr

Hello, a rough sketch of Pete Townshend from The Who (young).

Ariel Dollopac

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3yr

This is my rough sketch of Clint Eastwood.

Wendy de Boer

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3yr

Here are my attempts at Tammy Slaton. In the first thumbnail, I quite liked the head shape and the hair, but the face didn't feel right. In the second thumbnail, I felt the features were going in the right direction, but the elongated head shape was a bad call. I definitely felt the head needed to be rounder and smoother. So on the third thumbnail, I tried to combine what I liked about the first and second sketch into one. For the final rough, I enlarged the third thumbnail and worked it out a bit more. I think it's going somewhere, but I'm also finding it quite hard to keep a sense of structure without using formal construction and taking measurements from the reference. What do you think?

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Wendy, this looks great. I think the drawing looks solid and three dimensional. Nicely done :-)

Peter Haller

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3yr

Here is my try on Bill Nye and Joel. I am ok with the likeness. I see some structural problems but these will be resolved with the abstraction I hope :-). What do you think about this rough sketches? Thanks in advance.

@tibonb

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4yr

Another try, from thumbnail to rough sketch. I like the idea of the upper left and central thumbnails, that I tried to develop into a rough sketch. I still struggle however with the likeness (in the features mostly, I think). I can’t put the reference photo sadly, because of GDRP, but I would really appreciate any feedbacks on the overall structure and consistency of the distortions. @Court Jones ? Anyone ?

Court Jones

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4yr

I also don't know what GDRP is and why it would prevent you from uploading a photo of the person. Let us know. The main problem with the rough sketch is there is a consistent skew to its structure. The shapes are "leaning" up and to the right. Especially the jaw, ears and glasses. My guess is you drew this on a flat table (or at least a low angle) and are right-handed. When you create a drawing looking at your paper surface from a low angle the shapes will look fine from that perspective. But when you look at them straight on, the skewed perspective becomes more obvious. If that is not the case and your paper surface was propped upright in front of you, then you need to focus on why you are doing that. Be sure to use parallel and perpendicular guidelines to map out where the features of the face will go.

DoodleMick

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4yr

Good Evening: For me, it's hard to tell a likeness without the originally image to look at. I do not recognize this individual, so I don't know if they are famous or not. With that said, your rough sketch look well done, and the over all sketch still looks like a rough, but also a work in progress. My eyes keep going to the one in the upper left. I would focus on that concept and see where it takes you. (Not sure what GDRP is) Lastly, the jaw line looks off on the single sketch. The right side (his left) looks sharper where the opposite side looks more puffy. Keep up good work. Mick

@tibonb

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4yr

Hi there ! I’ve been following this lesson a couple of weeks ago. After trying different thumbnails, here is the final sketch, with ink. I didn’t actually pushed it further. Any advice to help me improve on this ? Thanks 😃

DoodleMick

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4yr

This looks pretty well done. Your crosshatching looks pretty clean and straight. Nice job. Like the larger nose. I took a look at your pervious post as well, and that sketch looks more like a profile portrait than a caricature, but still looks well done.