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Let's draw her again. |
You've got the chin drawn. And you drew the dimple in the
chin, right? Now we'll draw the sides of the head. Since her
left side is more visible and not covered with so much hair,
we'll do that side first.
Get your standard unit by measuring her eye on the photo.
Slide the measurement all the way straight over to the corner
of her other eye. See that the space between the corner of the
eye and the side of her head is just about an eye wide?
Measure that out on your drawing and make a mark where the
side of the head will be. Now draw a sweeping curve that
connects this mark you made with the chin you previously drew.
It's best if you draw from the temple area to chin rather than
chin to temple, the line you make should be smoother when you
draw down. There aren't any hills or valleys you have to worry
about when drawing this line, unlike when you drew the chin.
If you want to try and draw the right side of her face go
ahead, but it will be a bit tougher because of that hair
that's covering her temple.
Let's define the forehead. Holding your pencil vertically on
the photo, measure from the tear duct of the left eye to approximately
the part in her hair. If you turn that measurement 90 degrees
and put one end of it at the corner of the left eye, you'll
see that it goes about halfway through the right eye. So on
the drawing, measure from the corner of the left eye to half
of the right eye, turn it 90 degrees up, and from the left
tear duct, measure the forehead. Do you think you could draw
two lines that would define her hairline? Starting at the
forehead mark you made, which is the part in her hair, draw
one curved line down and to the right and connect to the side
of the head you drew. Now try the other line for the hair.
It's a bit curvier, and will come pretty close to the right
eye.
If you didn't draw the right side of the face before, can you
do it now with the hairline drawn to guide you?
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The hairless head. |
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Add hair and some facial shadows and
eyes. |
Now that you have the forehead and the eyes drawn, you can
draw in the eyebrows. Draw a contour line that would define
the shape of the eyebrows, then fill it in. Keep in mind where
the eyebrows start and end in relation to the corner of the
eyes and the tear ducts. This will help to get the length of
the eyebrows correct.
Now finish up by finding the outside contour of her hair. You
don't have to measure for it, just take a good guess. Fill the
hair in by shading in like crazy. Shade in the direction of
the hair to make it more "hairlike". Also, if you
haven't already done it, draw in her pupils into the eye
shapes you've drawn. The eyes are very important, so try and
make 'em look good. Here, you can just draw black circles and
leave a white spot for highlights. also put in any additional
shadows you need, like the ones that would define her cheeks. That's about it! How do
you like your caricature of this woman? 
Now you should try and draw some caricatures on your own. You
can find pictures of people on the web, or use your family
photo album again. As with the portrait drawing you did
earlier, you should get large pictures where you can clearly
see the features on the face. If you think you need more
information on how to caricature, keep reading.
In the next pages
we're going to look at each facial feature more in depth and
address some tricks to caricaturing them. And, of course,
we'll draw more caricatures.
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