Using A Caricature Artist Houston Creator

By Melissa Schmidt


Caricatures are portraits of exaggerated features of a person or a thing. To draw a person's caricature, you will need to understand the components of a face, and what makes one face noticeably different from another. While it takes knowledge and practice to identify particular features that makes a person unique, a program that emulates a caricature artist houston called a caricature generator can do just that.

If you look at the mind of a caricature artist, they will need to first look at the face to be drawn, study the details of the face, and then subjectively identify how certain facial features stand out among the norm that they are familiar with. When this happens, they keep in mind features that they find unique and leave out certain details of the face that they deem insignificant. They then print the visualized image they see in their mind by drawing it out.

Start exaggerating those features. The most common ways to exaggerate the features of the face is to draw them bigger or smaller. You can adjust, make trial and error drawings on which best fits the face. You can also draw several caricatures with different features exaggerated so you can choose which of the caricatures have the likelihood of the original subject. Of course, it should have the likelihood of the person who are drawing, or else, you are not making a caricature.

I was drawing caricatures at the camp on the last Friday night, a celebration dance party of sorts. As always I had a crowd that would make a Tokyo elevator seem roomy. This adorable girl who barely looked up from staring at her shoes was my next subject.

Her counselor was there by my side and did most of the talking for her. I worked so hard to see deeper into her personality and find that little something in her that would bring light into her eyes. With the help of the counselor, I managed to get a few laughs from the audience watching and once a small smile from the girl. I finished the drawing and showed it to her. She immediately stood with confidence and looked at the drawing. A small smile got bigger and she just marveled at the drawing. "I look like my mother!" she claimed. " I'm so beautiful".

This was the crack in the barrier wall that the counselors were waiting for and immediately took advantage of the situation. Driving a wedge into the emotional crack in her wall, they began the healing process for her. The girl gave me a huge tight hug and as she walked off with her counselor, the counselor looked over her shoulder and silently said "thank you". That is why I will always strive to see the best in my subjects, particularly young people.

If you've been to a street fair or amusement park lately, you may have seen a cartoon artist in action. People stop to have their comic portraits drawn in a cartoon style, often with very large heads and tiny bodies doing something funny. If you'd like to learn how to draw these types of drawings, the book, Face Off: How to Draw Amazing Caricatures and Comic Portraits, by Harry Hamernik, can help.

There is a great sampling of different facial types and a fair range of ages, although there are no older people at all. But there are some with glasses, a head bandana, jewelry, and facial hair, the sorts of things that can trip you up.




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