{"id":2816,"date":"2010-03-05T13:53:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T05:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2010-03-05T13:53:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T05:53:32","slug":"caricature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/05\/caricature\/","title":{"rendered":"Caricature"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m working on product branding that will require a series of emotional caricatures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I’ve never really been very good at caricature. I find it difficult to capture all the subtle nuances of the subject without just adding a lot of detail. So my drawings end up looking alright… but nothing like the people I’m trying to capture.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, my work next week mostly just requires stylised cartoon imagery. So it doesn’t really demand that the image is identifiable as a specific person. Also, it’s all going to be lightly stylised only (no heavy caricatures) meaning that it’s a little more like stuff<\/a> I’m<\/a> a bit<\/a> better at<\/a>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Anyhow, here are some practise sketches that I did yesterday and today.<\/p>\n

It’s me!… kinda:<\/p>\n

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I emphasised the wrong visual cues in this one: my face isn’t really super thin, and my hair is big in a different way. It’s also the wrong sort of smile (“huh?” rather than “hey”). Gah… moving on… here’s the work-in-progress if anyone is interested. I find it easiest to sketch different colours for different surfaces (eg. hair) and then break it out into layers later on:<\/p>\n

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After deciding that I’m probably too close to me to be objective in drawing myself, I went through some old photos looking for other interesting faces. I decided upon this photo of Tone<\/a> doing the “Blue Steel<\/a>” look (from Zoolander<\/a>) at iParty 2.0<\/a>. I tried for fewer, cleaner lines, and basic blocky shading:<\/p>\n

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Then I added in some colour:<\/p>\n

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Better I think… but I’m still not really feeling the emotion. I can probably add some spin lines or other iconographic elements in the background, but I want to get as much as I can from just the main figure…<\/p>\n

I guess that I’ll just have to keep practising! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m working on product branding that will require a series of emotional caricatures. To be honest, I’ve never really been very good at caricature. I find it difficult to capture all the subtle nuances of the subject without just adding a lot of detail. So my drawings end up looking alright… but nothing like the … Continue reading “Caricature”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-Jq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}