Saturday, September 9, 2017

Be Your Own Caricature Artist Houston

By Melissa Schmidt


Caricatures are portraits of exaggerated features of a person or a thing. To draw a person's caricature, you will need to understand the components of a face, and what makes one face noticeably different from another. While it takes knowledge and practice to identify particular features that makes a person unique, a program that emulates a caricature artist houston called a caricature generator can do just that.

There have been many times I have drawn someone, and when they look at the drawing I did of them, they get a flash of self-discovery that may very possibly change their lives forever. How wonderful is that? I remember a time I was drawing at a Grief Camp for children.

Yes, this was a camp for children who had lost one or both of their parents and were working through the horrifying issues that you can imagine a young mind would face in such a travesty. You could tell the first year campers from the third or fourth year campers. The new campers were like stones. No emotion, difficult to communicate with, closed to the outside world. These type of kids had a counselor with them at all times, waiting for the right moment to start the healing process.

You can also start drawing your caricature with the exaggerated portion so you can make it your focus in the drawing, but you can also do otherwise. There is no clear cut rule on where to start with your drawing for as long as you can still make it balanced. Play on the thickness of the lines in your drawing. Aside from blowing some features into larger proportions or making some features smaller, you can also make the lines thicker or thinner. Get some practice. With constant practice, you can master this skill and make it a fun hobby you can enjoy with.

Usually, before making the comparisons, these programs, just like cartoon artists, will require you to identify your gender. This is necessary as male features tend to be different from those of females. Males tend to have sharper features, while females tend to have gentler curves. When your gender is identified, they may pay more attention to certain details of your face as compared to those of the similar gender in their database. Then, they will either make the lines of the feature sharper or gentler accordingly.

This was the crack in the barrier wall that the counselors were waiting for and immediately took advantage of the situation. Driving a wedge into the emotional crack in her wall, they began the healing process for her. The girl gave me a huge tight hug and as she walked off with her counselor, the counselor looked over her shoulder and silently said "thank you". That is why I will always strive to see the best in my subjects, particularly young people.

If you've been to a street fair or amusement park lately, you may have seen a cartoon artist in action. People stop to have their comic portraits drawn in a cartoon style, often with very large heads and tiny bodies doing something funny. If you'd like to learn how to draw these types of drawings, the book, Face Off: How to Draw Amazing Caricatures and Comic Portraits, by Harry Hamernik, can help.

The book starts by discussing materials and supplies you will need, including pencils, paper, markers and color pencils. I like the instructions for a do-it-yourself lap easel, which can be made cheaply if you have very basic handy construction skills.




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