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This last one is from another magazine but it's good too.
I wish more animation cartoonists applied some of the kind of thinking that caricaturists have to do in their work. I don't mean literally drawing human caricatures into cartoons. They'd be impossible to animate. No, I mean being more observant and breaking out of making cartoons based solely on other cartoons, instead of scouring the world with your eyes and brain, on the constant lookout for new things to make cartoons about and new ways to design characters that aren't just rehashes of well-known overused animation styles.
Getting your pencil to tap into your own view of the world instead of being a slave to certain habitual flicks of the wrists that always produce the same shapes and stories.
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Sorry John, for posting my studies right here! I was trying to look for a specific place to post these, but I don't know if you still check old posts. Forgive me for my sin.
Construction - Lesson 1
On topic - these caricatures are mind-blowing! It would be amazing to have the caricaturists' hands and eyes. I would like to have their observation one day.
These are amazing!
Like your closing point too.
Thanks for the advice yesterday, it certainly helped. Here are the studies i did after reading the contrasts post. Hope you have a chance to check them.
Kaspar after contrasts
Best,
Paul.
Hey John,
Are my caricatures the kind you like or are they still too much like mainstream caricatures?
I'm still searching, but it's fun to do besides cartoons!
I like the first and last drawings.....very appealing!
Hey again John
Thanks so much for you critique!
I just have a question...
You said:
"the contrasts are a bit toned down"
Maybe I slept in the class, but I'm not sure what you by the contrasts... Can you help me out?
Cheers pal
Thomas Fluharty does some of those caricatures from the National Review commercial. He's on blogspot, but his archives are screwed up. I've seen some hilarious caricatures of Pelosi by him.
Anyway, here's a link to his blog if you wanna see some of his sketches, etc:
http://thomasfluharty.blogspot.com/
These are great! After scary monsters, caricatures are my favorite things to draw.
Speaking of caricatures, have you ever posted an opinion of Triplets of Belleville? It's not Disney, 3D or surface-only stylized 2D, so I'm intrigued about what you'd say to defend not liking it. (I keed, I keed!)
These look like the work of the remarkable John Kascht. His website is amazing. Great Bill Murray.
Never saw those before. They look fantastic!
I always thought the cartoonist for The Economist was quite good. (E.g. http://www.economist.com/daily/kallery/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14824785 )
(Apologies for hideous long link.)
The first cover is priceless!
Hey John
Here's more Kaspar studies!
If you got the time:)
Here
Cheers pal
well said.
Hi John- Great post. This is the type of information I should print and tack to the wall to keep me honest when I'm drawing. Thanks for the insight.
I wish I knew how to do caricatures :(
I think these are by a guy named Roman Genn. (PS, don't ask me why I know.=p)
Oscar: Yeah, he did. He said the colors look like the inside of a toilet bowl, or something like that. He uses it as an example of "pee and poo" colors.
I found some really good examples of Thomas Fluharty's work, John. I think you'll like them.
Redneck and Obama
Obama as Hamlet
I was wrong about him doing covers for NR. He only works for The Weekly Standard. They run the same types of ads on Fox as NR.
Yeah, truly good caricature is tough to do. Well, maybe more time consuming then tough really. I've been doing that quite a bit lately with results ranging from decent to awful. I plan to make a blog post all about it in the near future. However, a few other loose ends have to be taken care of first. I really can't wait to post it all.
My lame claim to fame:
Robert Risko famous caricature artist for Vanity Fair, etc... did my portrait for a few bucks when he was like 18 years old and starting out on the boardwalk in Wildwood, NJ.
Actually that level of detail could be possible in CG.
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