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To start to caricature you're going to need a few materials. The nice thing about drawing is that it's a pretty inexpensive hobby.
Drawing is simple enough that you could use any writing
implement and any drawing surface, but if you're going to take
the time to learn, you might as well get some decent tools.
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Lap desk. |
 Since this site is on the Internet, you'll probably be sitting in front of your computer as you draw, so you're going to have to be comfortable there. If you're at a large desk where you can just clear a spot next to your
keyboard, that would be fine. If you're at a smaller desk, or just don't have room to draw on your
computer desk, might I suggest a "lap desk". At many art supply stores, and even at some
Wal-Marts, you can buy what looks like a large clip board. It's just a large piece of wood with clips bolted on so you can clip your paper to the board. Of course you could just get your own board and tape your paper to it as well. What you will do is set the board in your lap as you sit at your
computer desk and lean the top of the board on your desk so you have an angled surface to work on. You may want to angle
your body so you can get to your computer's mouse.
For paper you can just use typing paper of at least 8.5x11 inches or just grab a stack of printer paper.
Get one of those pink school erasers. Hopefully you'll never use it.
Also get a few of those cone shaped erasers that go on the end
of a pencil.
You can use regular number 2 pencils, but I think the lead is too hard.
A hard lead will give you a real thin, gray line, a softer
lead gives you fatter, blacker lines. If you're at the art store looking for lap desks, grab a bunch of
5B or 4B pencils. To see a comparison between a No. 2 lead and a 5B
lead click HERE.
You
may want to get a blending tool to help create shadows
quickly. It's just tightly rolled up paper. The one you buy
will look much whiter than this one, this one is years old.
But you don't want the thing to be white when you use it. To effectively
blend with it you have to prepare it. Take a blank sheet of
paper and rub your 5B pencil lead all over it. Now roll the
tip of the blender all over this graphite on the paper. Load
the blender with as much graphite as possible. Then when it's
"loaded", write with the tip of the blender on a
clean sheet of paper and see what kind of line you get.
The blender will "blend" lines, hence the name.
That's it! Now let's continue with the learning!
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