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1999 ******************************************************************* YouCanDraw.com's Insiders Communique ******************************************************************* Well a "big howdy" to all the YouCanDraw.com subscribers! In this issue: 1) Second in the "Feature by feature" series: noses. 2) "Corky" from Oregon asks: "what's the every-other-weekly caricature for?" 3) Update: Downloadable home version comimng ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) "Feature by Feature". In the last e-communique, we talked about cartooning ears - which is a little different than caricaturing - cartooning that is. And how different? Cartoons are more abstracted drawings than caricatures are. Caricatures are based on real people with real features. Cartoons are a little more "off the top of your head". Both can be completely "off the wall". Does that mean cartoons and caricatures can't be both? Of course not. You can "cartoon" a caricature as much as you like and still maintain a likeness. I thinks it's easier to look at a picture and say "this is a cartoon and that's a caricature" - but hardly all the time. But I'm not going to say anymore than that about the difference between the two. The beauty of doing cartoons, in my opinion, is they teach you to draw "rapid fire" features. If you look at a good cartoonist's drawings, you'll see they've done the work abstracting from real noses - all the features of an anatomically correct nose can be found in a good cartoon rendering. If you've been doing your homework :-), I know you'll recognize the three wedges of the nose: the wedge at it's root, the central longer wedge, and the wedge formed at the base - right there at the top of your lip with the nostrils on either side. Look over the cartoons on the "Just for fun page": http://ycdinsiders.digitalchainsaw.com/InsidersArtistLoft/nosesjustfor.htm I'll bet you could do the whole assignment in 20 minutes or less, and I also guarantee you'll spend more than that once you start having fun with these. So, your mission for the next 2 weeks: Review the nose anatomy in the nose's main section. Draw a bunch of noses. And, just like with the ear assignments 2 weeks ago, you can: 1) send me a drawing of your nose, or a drawing of a drawing of any old noses, or a drawing of those of a live subject, 2) Or go to the new section on cartoon noses and do the assignment there. If you haven't done the section on noses yet, concentrate on drawing the nose and it's parts first. Then, you can move into memorizing the anatomy. Then, just for fun try drawing it on a stick figure face. I did some real quick stick figure's with cartoon ears - I put the impetus on just the nose. The rest of the face is pure "stick figure". You'll find the results of your own drawings pretty entertaining. Send either to me and I'll happily post it on the site as part of the permanent collection.
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