Face Off: How To Draw Amazing Caricatures Drawn Portraits - A Book Review

If you were in a street fair or an amusement park last, have you seen a caricaturist at work. People stop to get their portraits drawn in a comic cartoon style, often with very large heads and small bodies something fun. If you want to learn how to draw the kind of drawings, the book, Face Off: How to Draw Amazing Caricatures Comic Portraits by Harry Hamernik, can help.

Most books on how to draw caricatures of famous artists who made many portraits of celebrities in the past. Artists such as Dick Gautier and Lenn Redman are two of the best known. But their styles are a little dated and could be looking for something more applicable to a modern style.

The book begins with a discussion and the materials you need, including pencils, paper, markers and crayons. I love the instructions for a do-it-yourself lap easel that can be done cheaper if you have very practical skills in construction.

Then cover the marker, pencil and colored pencil techniques. These include how not to get fuzzy lines, varying your lines, working with value and color mixing. It shows how the color of a picture using crayons and even some computer coloring techniques.

We present a specific process for the preparation of a portrait and encourage you to take a dozen faces every day for twenty days in a row before trying to sketch a person. You need to know how to make a caricature of the first trial, without being caught before they can be added to the difficulty of trying to make it look like someone.

The following section describes how to draw specific characteristics. He gives several examples of face shapes and examples of nose, eyes, hair, etc. There are several useful tips scattered throughout, like this one on your eyes: "Greater openness will make your subject look younger Think Bambi .. "

It also discusses and explains the distance, the anchor, and joints. These are the portraits of the key planning, because even the smallest details can make the changes seem like a caricature of a person or not. Drawing similarity is very difficult.

The rest of the book contains two main sections, one for portraits 3 / 4, and one for profile views. These, like the portraits section before the face, giving numerous examples, tips and tricks.

There is a wide range of different types of face and a reasonable range of all ages, but there are no seniors at all. But there are some with glasses, scarf, jewelry and facial hair, that sort of thing that can trip you up.

In general, a good summary if you're interested in learning to draw in this style. Face Off: How to draw cartoons Comic Harry Hamernik amazing pictures will get you started in the right direction.