Caricature Artist Houston - Tips For Drawing Attractive Caricatures

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.

There have been many times I have drawn someone, and when they look at the drawing I did of them, they get a flash of self-discovery that may very possibly change their lives forever. How wonderful is that? I remember a time I was drawing at a Grief Camp for children.

Yes, this was a camp for children who had lost one or both of their parents and were working through the horrifying issues that you can imagine a young mind would face in such a travesty. You could tell the first year campers from the third or fourth year campers. The new campers were like stones. No emotion, difficult to communicate with, closed to the outside world. These type of kids had a counselor with them at all times, waiting for the right moment to start the healing process.

However, with this program, it does not leave out details that do not stand out completely but only gives less exaggeration towards the feature. Nevertheless, this program is able to keep the exaggerated details within recognizable boundaries, only adding a little distortion to form the character of what makes a cartoon.

Usually, before making the comparisons, these programs, just like cartoon artists, will require you to identify your gender. This is necessary as male features tend to be different from those of females. Males tend to have sharper features, while females tend to have gentler curves. When your gender is identified, they may pay more attention to certain details of your face as compared to those of the similar gender in their database. Then, they will either make the lines of the feature sharper or gentler accordingly.

The cartoon generator surely is one highly-advanced technology; having able to detect details we humans heuristically miss. With that said, using this program not only allows you to cartoon your face, it also gives you an idea of how people see you. Try it out to find out which features make what people think is you!

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.

The book starts by discussing materials and supplies you will need, including pencils, paper, markers and color pencils. I like the instructions for a do-it-yourself lap easel, which can be made cheaply if you have very basic handy construction skills.




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