Try explaining to someone who sees your cartoons that you’re not really a caricaturist. I think anyone who can draw a really spot-on caricature possesses an enormous talent; a talent that I hate to say I don’t have. I would love to be able to bang out a great caricature in five minutes like those guys down at the boardwalk. …Do they still have boardwalks anymore? Damn kids, get off my lawn.
Hm, I am sure they still have boardwalks, a few in South Carolina near the coast that I have seen caricature artist ( Barefoot Landing ). That is about it, not much for boardwalks in CT, unless your at the state park walking along the marsh.
Yea, i stopped doing caricatures a LOOONG time ago, because I would be TOTALLLY honest. You had a pimple – I drew it! So, in that retrospect, I didn’t make a good caricature artist, because I would irritate many.
I’ve found out that the key to caricatures is to draw what your subject THINKS they look like. Even if the result doesn’t come out looking exactly like them, it will be a drawing of a sexy person similar. Who’s gonna complain about that? Ka-ching!
Nobody cross-eyed wants a picture of themselves cross-eyed.
And homegirl already has a ghetto-booty. Tell her for me, okay?
Ugh! Drawing caricatures is the worst! It’s like asking for instant criticism. “My nose isn’t that big!” Duh, it’s called EXAGGERATION!
Besides, caricatures always remind me of bad 70’s Mad Magazine art. Even the good ones have the same style: Giant heads, high cheekbones, pointed chins, freckles as big as their eyes.
And yes, as long as they don’t look like bags of cottage cheese, a little junk in the trunk is A OK!
TOTALLY relate. It’s a tough business, and you gotta have some humor about your appearance to appreciate it. Most don’t, lol.
…. and nothing’s worst than an exaggerated BOOTY!
That is SO TRUE. I remember drawing them when I was young and people would like my drawings, but there would always be a but at the end like, “It’s really nice, but my does isn’t THAT big.”
Of course it’s not… that why it’s called a “caricature” ¬_¬
Agreed with everybody’s comments. I really wish I was a good caricaturist, but at the same time, you have to be VERY careful about what you do…though that’s great advice, George. Draw the person the way they THINK they look–although I guess sometimes it’s hard to know what they think they look like! But you’re right, you pretty much can’t go wrong if you’re able to make it flattering…but at that point, is it really a caricature, or is it the equivalent of a rock band agreeing to just make music everybody likes?
Excellent! And how true. I spent a 4H summer event drawing caricatures – no one was happy unless I drew all the guys looking cool, and all the girls as babes. Then they all complained it didn’t look like them hoping I wouldn’t charge them.
90% of the guys at the boardwalk arent that good either. Every vacation, I find someone who does caricatures and have one done. Only once (in Italy) did I think it looked like me and was good (and it wasn’t very flattering either). And I have seen where some of these guys steal the drawings of others to use as examples.
But again…it is a talent I would love to improve upon myself…esp doing editorial cartoons. It sucks when I have to put some wording that tells who the person is that I am trying to draw b/c I can’t seem to get them to look right.
This’s why #1 I don’t draw people I know and #2 why there aren’t any real people in my comic.
The only way to get me to draw a picture of you is if you agree to be wearing paladin armor for the artwork… And it’s actually worked out realy well.
Awesome, tbowl! By that logic, I’ve already made tons of guest appearances!
I once had a gig drawing caricatures at a school for the blind. Easiest money I ever made. I just sat in the chair and made scribble sounds for 5 minutes and then collected my $10. I felt kind of guilty until I saw one of my victims sell the very same picture to his classmate for $50 by telling him that is was a Charles Schulz original! You gotta love the entrepreneurial spirit!
When you’re a caricaturist, you’re basically pimping your skills for the pleasures of others (it’s like the fourth oldest profession or something). They’re paying us to give them a pat on the head.
I know when someone would draw me and emphasize certain areas I thought were unnoticeable, I would grow quite heated. I didn’t wanna pay good money for a reality check. Stroke my ego and send me on my way.