Here’s my George Takei! George is WIIIIDE at the cheeks, and he has a very wide smile so that means most of his mass to the bottom of his head shape. As a result, you have to reduce the mass in the forehead. READ MORE
Here’s my sketch of Snoop Dogg… he’s got a great face to caricature. Snoop has a long, lean headshape but his eyes are very far apart… they almost seem to touch the outsides of his head. With a more serious expression he has sharp, high cheekbones, but when he does his wide stoner’s grin like this he has small, round “cherry tomato” cheeks that overpower the cheekbones. He also has a very lean jawline and a small chin. Finally he has big, heavy eyelids and a strong brow. READ MORE
Here’s a quick take on Charlie Sheen for the Daily Coronacature. Sorry, no time for a face breakdown today… READ MORE
I needed to get this one done early today. Here’s my take on Edward Norton… at least a beat up one from the movie “Fight Club”. Edward has a lot of forehead, and a small, narrow mouth with a small, rounded chin. He also does not have a very distinct jawline. The corners of his mouth extend down to connect with his chin, and he has a kind of “chipmunk cheek” look with almost a double chin. READ MORE
Willem Dafoe has a lot of features to play with in a caricature. He has a small but very sharp nose, a large and wide chin, high and bony cheekbones, a pronounced brow, heavy upper eyelids, and so many creases and crannies on his face he could pass as a topographical map. I think he has very interesting teeth, so I chose to try drawing him with a toothy grin. He doesn’t usually smile with his teeth in still photographs, but when he acts his teeth are very prominent. READ MORE
Here’s my sketch of today’s subject, Forest Whitaker! Forest has some pretty obvious features to exaggerate… the lazy eye and the huge ears jump right out at you. However it’s expression that really drives a good caricature. Finding and exaggerating a person’s “presence”, what makes them them is just as important as giving someone really big ears. I find how the corners of Forest’s mouth curve downward and in , and how the nasolabial furrows (lines from the nose down to the corners of the mouth, go out wide and then also curve around and under the mouth corners fascinating. Those elements and how the… READ MORE
Only have time for a quick one today… here’s my Halle Berry. Halle has some very intense eyebrows, a small nose, and when she smiles her cheeks stretch out so the bottoms are almost on the same horizontal as her nose. Finally she has a high and “tall” forehead, which looks even higher and taller with this hairdo. READ MORE
Here’s my take on the late, great Marty Feldman. When I posted the subject this morning, I noted that Marty was an “easy one”. That’s not entirely true. People who have very obvious features to exaggerate are sometimes just as elusive to capture as someone without an obvious “hook” because there’s a tendency to try and exaggerate it all, when you really want to concentrate on what’s most important. It’s a little like skeet shooting. When one target takes off you know to zero in on that one and shoot it cleanly. When 20 targets take off at the same time, if you try to… READ MORE
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