Just ordered this book The Mad Art of Characiture, earlier today and just discovered your clip. Love your work, every drawing was great. Hope to be this good someday.
@istealspoons with your background in portraits, you have a head start. I use a black Prisma color for the inside of the face then a black Mars marker for the outside of the face and hair. If your wanting to geat a good first step on learning get Tom Richmond's new book, The Mad Art of Caricature.
Most people can't understand the work of interpretation/Simplifying/distortion besides the paper.
Is very easy to make a realistic caricature and the client will be happy easily but that's very far from the concept of creativity or art, if you want.
@tscagonic No dice. That realistic caricature is STILL someone's interpretation of a face. There's still some very important creative decision making behind the process of it all whether it's a zany approach or a more level headed construction. That can be done with many lines, or just a few cleverly placed ones.
From what I've seen in retail, clients will often times accept a sketch with no likeness or reality to it, rather than face themselves on that page and accept it.
@MACGARCIAcom You have skills though so dont think im trying to take anything away from you, its just constructive criticism!! Id say to maybe focus on the actual person youre drawing more, while youre drawing. Good Luck Bud
@dustiniphelps Not to take anything away from your critique (and I do agree though I believe the work is a bit better than you've implied), but that's an incredibly difficult thing to do when you're doing this in the retail business like he is. You CAN be realistic and do fantastic drawings at that easel, but the thing I've found is that it seems like the better you are at it, the more likely you'll have people antsy about coming to you for a sketch like this.
@darknight068 The very unfortunate thing about this line of work is that most people walk into getting one of these with the mindset that it's supposed to look like a cartoon, often times generic. As long as it's cute most people won't give one rats ass if it looks like them or not, hence why people who do generic stamp pictures tend to sell better than good artists. I've had people get mad at sketches I've done BECAUSE it literally looked like them exaggerated (mildly IMO).
@darknight068 I've also had another situation just drawing in my sketchbook once where the chick walked up, recognized who it was, but told me it wasn't a caricature BECAUSE IT LOOKED LIKE HIM!!! That's the kind of mindset you have to deal with and often times drawing live is a complicated balance between drawing well (if you can) vs. drawing generalized stuff.
I think you got the likeness down pretty well on most of the people. I have the same problem with mixing the exaggeration and still making the person look alike. You should check TheSubwaysurfer's page, he's got this great method that works. But nice drawing man, keep it up.
Just ordered this book The Mad Art of Characiture, earlier today and just discovered your clip. Love your work, every drawing was great. Hope to be this good someday.
cfalviso87 6 days ago
@cfalviso87 that book has helped me so much and am glad to hear you got it! Keep practicing!
MACGARCIAcom 5 days ago
awesome video :)
saturnfiverocket 3 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos
goodmusic!!!
sannsyainn13 1 month ago
I actually really like these. I've done portraiture for a while now, but want to try my hand at caricature. May I ask what sort of pen you use?
istealspoons 3 months ago
@istealspoons with your background in portraits, you have a head start. I use a black Prisma color for the inside of the face then a black Mars marker for the outside of the face and hair. If your wanting to geat a good first step on learning get Tom Richmond's new book, The Mad Art of Caricature.
MACGARCIAcom 3 months ago
C'est de la caricature... calligraphique. Merveilleux !
mmj273 3 months ago
@mmj273 Markador.
MACGARCIAcom 3 months ago
I don't agree with @dustiniphelps
Most people can't understand the work of interpretation/Simplifying/distortion besides the paper.
Is very easy to make a realistic caricature and the client will be happy easily but that's very far from the concept of creativity or art, if you want.
tscagonic 3 months ago
@tscagonic No dice. That realistic caricature is STILL someone's interpretation of a face. There's still some very important creative decision making behind the process of it all whether it's a zany approach or a more level headed construction. That can be done with many lines, or just a few cleverly placed ones.
From what I've seen in retail, clients will often times accept a sketch with no likeness or reality to it, rather than face themselves on that page and accept it.
darknight068 1 month ago
AWESOME BRO!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! EXPECTING MORE VIDEOS FROM YOU!!
Artistic323 3 months ago
cool idea with the music... to funny :D
euresti1 3 months ago 3
Nice drawings, but they look ABSOLUTELY NOTHING like the actual people!!!
dustiniphelps 3 months ago
@dustiniphelps Thanks for the tip, I guess when your drawing them yourself you don't realize it. I still need a lot of practice.
MACGARCIAcom 3 months ago
@MACGARCIAcom You have skills though so dont think im trying to take anything away from you, its just constructive criticism!! Id say to maybe focus on the actual person youre drawing more, while youre drawing. Good Luck Bud
dustiniphelps 3 months ago
@dustiniphelps Not to take anything away from your critique (and I do agree though I believe the work is a bit better than you've implied), but that's an incredibly difficult thing to do when you're doing this in the retail business like he is. You CAN be realistic and do fantastic drawings at that easel, but the thing I've found is that it seems like the better you are at it, the more likely you'll have people antsy about coming to you for a sketch like this.
darknight068 1 month ago
@darknight068 The very unfortunate thing about this line of work is that most people walk into getting one of these with the mindset that it's supposed to look like a cartoon, often times generic. As long as it's cute most people won't give one rats ass if it looks like them or not, hence why people who do generic stamp pictures tend to sell better than good artists. I've had people get mad at sketches I've done BECAUSE it literally looked like them exaggerated (mildly IMO).
darknight068 1 month ago
@darknight068 I've also had another situation just drawing in my sketchbook once where the chick walked up, recognized who it was, but told me it wasn't a caricature BECAUSE IT LOOKED LIKE HIM!!! That's the kind of mindset you have to deal with and often times drawing live is a complicated balance between drawing well (if you can) vs. drawing generalized stuff.
darknight068 1 month ago
@MACGARCIAcom
I think you got the likeness down pretty well on most of the people. I have the same problem with mixing the exaggeration and still making the person look alike. You should check TheSubwaysurfer's page, he's got this great method that works. But nice drawing man, keep it up.
ajxegg 1 month ago
Bravo!!!!
danielpaivasilveira 3 months ago 6