And a popular cartooning expertise is how to draw
caricatures.
How to draw caricature, starts with a love for drawing
faces.
There are many books that show how to draw people. I really
enjoy the Jack Hamm books; they give you multiple ideas and techniques in
drawing simple and detailed cartoons.
If you want to know how to draw a car, how to draw the
Marvel way, is great for cars, helicopters, plane and space age gizmos.
When teaching my students how to draw cartoons, I always
work with different shapes and lines.
The same is in how to draw a caricature, look at the shapes
and lines in the face and try to represent the shapes and line direction.
When looking to become a professional artist find your best
current work for promotional art prints.
Custom art prints sent to art directors are the best way to
sell your drawing style.
You can create portraits and landscape art prints, depending
on the layout of your work.
Collecting famous art prints can influence your work and greatly
contribute to the quality of your talent.
Most of the framed art prints, I collect I see on a steady
basis, which helps me creatively.
I collect humorous art prints by Jack Davis and Mort Drucker
of Mad Fame.
Most of the art prints online, come unframed. Framing can
become very expensive.
These celebrity art prints can be very helpful in drawing
your caricature art.
Caricature drawings should always start out with a very
lightly penciled sketch.
Do not put too much detail in the initial caricature drawing.
Try always to pick well known celebrities for your celebrity
caricature. Drawing a lesser known actor, may prevent the public from
recognizing the likeness you created.
A custom caricature should always be your original work, but
picking up on how other
Caricature artists exaggerate the celebrity can be quite
helpful.
Most beginners exaggerate, just for the sake of
exaggerating. If you want to become a caricature artist, try to find the most
outstanding facial feature.
A cartoon caricature should represent the person in
exaggeration, but still maintain the likeness. The most important factor is
practice.