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"This is starting to look very portrait-like, where's
the caricature?" Well, I'll let you in on a secret: If
you want to make the nose look large, one thing you can
do is make the mouth and chin small. You'll have to see
that when we get to it, though.
The placement of the nose on the face can make a person
look old or young, cute or ugly. Babies' noses are
really short because the cartilage that forms the shape
of the nose hasn't formed yet. So, if you're drawing an
infant, to make it look really "baby-like" draw the nose
really short, in fact, put the nose almost in between
the eyes. The lower you draw the nose on a baby's face,
the older it will look. This also works to make people
look "cute". If you're drawing a caricature of your
girlfriend and you want to make her look cute, make her
nose shorter than it is. Another quality that is
"baby-like" is a small chin. To make your girlfriend
look younger, make her chin smaller than it is.
Oftentimes when a girl gets a caricature drawn she
doesn't like it because to her, the artist made her look
"ugly". And most likely the reason she looks ugly in the
caricature is because the artist didn't attempt to make
her look "cute" by giving her baby-like features. The
artist should shorten and soften the nose, make the chin
look smaller, and give her bigger eyes. The problem here
is this may cause the artist to lose the likeness of the
girl. So the artist needs to find a balance between cute
and the likeness. We'll talk more about this later.
Of course, not all noses look alike, and you see noses
from different angles. If seen from the front, you could
draw the ball of the nose like a "U", and draw the lobes
of the nose like "C"s. The bone in the nose may be
really prominent, in that case, use a heavy line and
follow its contour to show that it sticks out. Don't
draw the nostrils if you can't see them, and many times
the nostril can be drawn looking like a sideways
teardrop. But, as always, draw what you see.
 Your Assignment: Try and caricature some noses. Look at
the people around you and sketch their noses. You don't
have to draw anything else but the nose. Start it at the
bridge and complete it all the way down to the ball and
lobes. As you look at noses, try and exaggerate them by
turning them up, or hooking them down. Draw them from
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