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Art of Caricature

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Fundamental Skills

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Build Your Caricature Muscles

71 Lessons

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Lessons

131 Lessons

Duration

32h 15m

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All Skill Levels

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Welcome to the World of Caricaturing

If you're someone that enjoys portrait drawing then learning caricature can greatly benefit you because it enhances your ability to capture likenesses, develop exaggeration techniques, and improve artistic flexibility. The goal of this course is to build confidence through risk-taking and help you become more adaptable to different styles. Caricature also sharpens an understanding of visual language, including shapes, lines, and forms. Additionally, it’s just fun! It's an engaging practice that will reward you by improving your technical skills and creative freedom.

This course is broken up into two parts!

Part 1: You’ll learn the core concepts of caricature. You’ll use concepts like exaggeration and abstraction to take a rough sketch to a fully developed caricature drawing.

Part 2: We'll build your caricature muscles. The exercises I've created will help improve your visual memory and even trick you into drawing stronger exaggerations. There are lessons on how to work around mental roadblocks, break bad habits and methods on how to figure out those difficult faces. We’ll even learn about digital painting.

Meet Your Instructor

I'm Court, a long-time member of the International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA). I won Caricature Artist of the Year in 2005 and Master Caricature Artist of the Year in 2011. I’ve also received awards like First Place for Original Illustration from the Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Chapter in 2010.

I worked as an animation background painter for Disney's Disenchanted (2022). Combining my traditional art training with caricature, I create humorous yet realistic portraits and illustrations.

I hope you'll join me in this course. I'm looking forward to seeing what you create!

What you will learn

1Exaggeration

Exaggeration is stretching the truth. Describing something in a way that makes it more of what it already is. Obtaining a likeness is the goal of exaggeration, with humor as a side effect.

2Rough Sketching

We start the caricature by exploring various ideas as thumbnails. Then develop it more with larger rough sketches, resolving the exaggeration, likeness and anatomy.

3Reilly Abstraction

You can do a basic tracing and hope that your initial sketch has solid structure, but we’ll use abstract rhythm lines to help refine the structure before adding detail.

4Final Shaded Drawing

I’ll show you how to take your rough sketch and create a final caricature drawing. We’ll make it look pretty with shading to create the illusion of volume.

5Caricaturing the Body

When working as a caricature illustrator, you will almost always have to include the subject’s body. You’ll learn how to design a caricature body that works well with the head.

6Memory Sketching

Think of caricature more as a drawing from your memory of the person rather than direct observation. It’s easier to be less literal with the shapes and more bold with the exaggeration.

7Caricature of a Caricature

This exercise can help you take things farther. You’ll do a caricature, then do a caricature of your own caricature. It’s about pushing the envelope and learning to not care about failing.

8Opposition Sketching

Sometimes, when stuck on a face, it helps to caricature two people side by side, playing off their opposing characteristics to come up with creative exaggerations.

9Spirit Animal

Often when you caricature a subject, their features remind you of an animal, object or something else. Let that mental image influence the design and balance of the features.

10Digital Paint Sketching

We’ll explore some ways to use digital tools to help us practice carciature and think of the likeness as a collection of shapes and values rather than lines. It’s a whole new way to look at designing caricatures.

11Studying the Masters

Studying masters is a time-honored technique for students learning how to draw and paint at a higher level. It’s a great way to get inside the heads of caricature artists you admire.

12Conscious Shape Design

One of the most important aspects of drawing and painting at a high level is shape design. You need to be aware of and consciously create the shapes, edges and values in your work. This includes your outer contours as well as how you indicate shadows and halftones. Shape design is the biggest factor in your own personal style.

Premium Benefits

Extended Lessons

Premium videos will be longer, covering more information about the topic. You’ll get to see more examples and demonstrations.

Assignments

A variety of exercises to help you practice what you've learned. After you do the assignments, you can post them in the community for feedback and see what other students are posting.

Assignment Demonstrations

The instructor includes demonstrations that show how to do an assignment or how to use the information taught in the lessons. Most of us are visual learners (we’re artists!), so hearing it explained is not enough. We have to see it many times.

Downloads

Includes content that the student can download to any personal device for offline viewing.

English Captions

All videos included in this course have English closed captions you can turn on or off.

Money Back Guarantee

Contact support@proko.com within 30 days. We usually don't ask questions, but a request is subject to review if over 25% of content was downloaded. This is to protect our instructors from dishonest wardrobing and ensure a happy and thriving community.

What others are saying

Jim

I didn't think that I needed to buy the Premium version of The Art of Caricature because so much of the course is provided for free. But the extra depth and additional lessons were really valuable. They enhanced my ability to think, see and draw in three dimensions, which has been useful in many areas of art, not just caricature. The course helped improve my portrait drawing skills because I got to draw along with the onscreen reference whilst hearing Court’s commentary. I now have a process from rough sketch to finished piece. Court is one of the best teachers out there. His instructions are clear and he draws on his extensive knowledge and experience, plus he made it a lot of fun.

Patrick Leimgruber

I wasn’t sure if I could learn with an online course, but I found that it is possible if the course is well done. I think that Court Jones is great, his lessons are interesting, funny, and with lots of variety.

F.A.Q.

Why are there 2 courses?

Each part of the course will explore focuses on different aspects of drawing caricatures. Together, they would take too long as a single course. As two courses, you will learn everything you need to know about each area, and spread out the payments if needed. If you want both, you can buy them together and save money.

What is the difference between Premium and free videos?

Premium videos are extended versions of free videos. This includes additional demonstrations and critique videos. Whenever diagrams or photos are provided, premium students get high resolution versions, which you can download and print for your reference.

The videos are downloadable, so you can watch them without internet access and transfer them to a tablet like an iPad. Going on vacation? Download them so you can watch them on the plane and in that cabin in the woods.

Is this price a monthly fee?

No, it’s a one-time payment and you have access to the Caricature videos forever. You are essentially purchasing a product. It’s not a subscription.

Can I download the videos?

Yup! Each video is downloadable as an mp4 file at 720p. Please don’t share the videos. Each purchase helps to create future videos like these.

Are there subtitles in my language?

A downloadable transcript is available for each video which you can translate to whatever language you want using Google Translate and clicking on the ‘Translate a Document’ option.

Do I get access to all videos you make in the future?

No, this includes only ‘Art of Caricature’ lessons.

Will you teach male and female caricature drawing?

Yup! Court uses male and female photos in all of his lessons to teach caricature drawing.

Lessons

Fundamental Skills (60 lessons)

22 free lessons

Exaggeration

free

Caricature 101 – How to Exaggerate

Drawing caricatures isn’t just about drawing huge heads and noses. It’s about figuring out what to exaggerate! In this lesson Court teaches you the basic concept of caricature drawing. He’ll go through the common misconceptions behind the art form and how you can start practicing it.

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