| April 6th 2001 (picture below) ********************************************************* Your Every Other Week Caricature Complements of YouCanDraw.com ********************************************************** How do all! Well I'm especially pleased with the final here of Mr. Maher. Funny thing though, I included the original two along side the final with the attached picture and the sizings make the first caricature (not the original), and the final look like the same picture. The final in reality is a full 11 inches tall. The first caricature is all but 5 inches tall and when you see them side by side the final looks so much more exaggerated it's not funny. In this view you can't tell at all! Interesting piece of research, eh? In the final (all pencil by the way), I exaggerated the nose - it travels almost cheek to cheek now - pointed the chin, widened the hair and forehead, overall kept with the light bulb shape direction we saw in the original. Your assignment Either open the first exaggeration from 2 weeks ago (print it out), and look at it side by side with the final or work from just the attached. Go down each and compare feature by feature by width and height. Ask for example "how much room is left between the cheek and the side of the nose in the and final and how does this compare to the first exaggeration?" Or "In the final how many eye widths wide is the head across the widest part of the forehead and how does this compare to the first exaggeration?" Then go down your list comparing and contrasting all the different sizes and dimensions of each section. Read through the "Hugh Hefner In-Depth" for some ammo on what features, facial shapes, shadows and negative spaces, etc are relevant. (Even if you're just beginning it does no harm to read through it just get a feel for he steps) Here's a quick list of parts and features of the face: Hair forehead forehead wrinkles the bony brow the eye brows the "glabella" the "infra-ocular folds" (the bags under the eyes) the nasal root the nose nostrils the philtrum (the groove between the upper lip and the nose...you know, the The upper lip Cupid's bow the highlight on the upper and lower lip the upper and lower lip the cheekbones the ears the dimples the jaw bone the chin the neck the Adams apple the sternocleidomastoid muscles (the two long muscles that form a "V" the ears... ...does that kinda get you started? OK! Jump on in. (Again for beginners, not to worry, you'll be exposed to all these and more as you work your way through the lessons.) Other news We're starting the third super-duper in-depth analysis - this time of Musician/singer/ songwriter Ani DiFranco (We needed to do a god in-depth of a woman since the first two are of men.) After that we'll be adding the "Flash" lessons (multimedia animations), to help make the lessons as self explanatory as possible, and we'll be adding more exercises to all the chapters so you'll internalize each section and can continue drawing with ever growing confidence. Take care and keep on drawing! Warmly, Jeff K.
Executive Director http://www.YouCanDraw.com "Once and for all getting you drawing faces and caricatures" mailto:comments@youcandraw.com
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