Drawing caricatures, on the other hand, is a lot more about seeing what makes the person in front of you unique and personal interpretation than it is about making good, confident marks on the paper. Learning how a face looks and works by learning anatomy, how expression changes the features, how the angle the face is at changes the perception of features, how hair grows and falls about the head… those are things that can be taught. I can teach them to DRAW… that isn’t so hard. I’ve been working with young caricaturists at theme parks for over two decades now, and I’ve learned one very important lesson… it’s impossible to teach someone to draw caricatures. The best caricatures say something more about the subject than that they have a big nose. Exaggeration itself can accomplish this in some cases. It might be something to do with the situation the subject is drawn in, it may just be a play on their personality through expression or body language, it might be a simple as making visual fun of some aspect of their persona or image. The artist must be trying to say something about the subject. Statement- I believe a caricature must editorialize in some way.The level of exaggeration can vary wildly, but there must be some departure. Exaggeration- Without some form of exaggeration, or a departure from the exact representation of the subject’s features, all you have is a portrait.All good caricatures incorporate a good likeness of their subjects. Likeness- If you can’t tell who it is supposed to be, then it is not successful. ![]() So, what are the universal elements all caricatures have that identify them as caricatures? I would say there are three essential elements that transcend style and medium and must be present in a caricature: Obviously there is a connection beyond a common technique, school or format. How can you, when the word encompasses the elegant, minimalist lines of Al Hirschfeld to the lavish, value and color soaked paintings of Sebastian Kruger to the graphic, geometrical collages of David Cowles and everything in between? Despite the wild differences in style and technique, “caricature” is the tag that is placed on any of these works of art without hesitation. These kinds of things always start out with a definition, but “caricature” is a hard thing to pigeonhole into a single sentence.
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