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Woody Allen |
Let's keep going and draw another caricature.
This time, rather than just a regular person, let's try
a celebrity. Drawing and caricaturing celebrities can be
both easier and harder than drawing regular people. On
the one hand, you have the advantage of already knowing
what the person looks like, so it might be easier to
"see" the finished caricature in your head. But if you
don't get a good likeness, people are going to wonder
who you were trying to draw. So on the other hand, you
may psych yourself out and begin to over analyze every
little line you make saying "no, this doesn't look like
him/her". With that said, lets dive right in and draw
Hollywood writer/director Woody Allen.
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Inverted pear head |
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Draw his eyes |
Woody has a distinctive look: the thick glasses, the
large nose, the big ears. So in a caricature of him,
what we should do is give him larger glasses, a bigger
nose and bigger ears. The best way to do this is to
make those features pretty much normal sized, but make
everything else smaller. Doing that will make the normal
sized elements look larger. So we'll create the
caricature by drawing the facial elements just like we
see them, but we'll be messing with the size of each
element. What we'll end up with is his head shaped like
an inverted pear.
 As
always, we'll start with the eyes, the glasses will be
one of the last things added, so we'll have to work
around them for now. Draw his right eye (the one on your
left) top lid. Follow the contour of what his top eye lid looks
like, and you'll end up with an arch shape. Now, follow
the contour of his lower lid and draw that in. If you
look closely at the photo, you'll see that he has more
than one eye distance between his eyes. Measure that
distance out in the drawing and mark where you'll start
to draw the left eye. Now draw the top lid and bottom
part of the left eye. Notice that the left eye is not
the same shape as the right eye, so draw the two eyes as
you see them.
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Woody Allen's nose |
 Now
we can move on to the nose. Draw the contour of the
nose. Note that the contour is very close to the corner
of the right eye. The nose can be drawn with one
continuous line that looks like a very crooked and
backwards "J". Remember to follow the contour just as
you see it. See that the nose doesn't have a "ski slope"
type look, but it has a large "bump" in it
near the top. Let's draw
it a little bit longer than it appears so we know we get
the "cartooniness" in. Draw a little bit of shading on
the nose that shows where the nose lobe meets the bridge
of the nose.
Now
the mouth. To make the nose look large, everything below
the nose will be smaller than it looks. So, start
drawing the contour of the mouth much closer to the nose
than you see in the photo. But still draw the mouth with
the same contour that you see in the photo. You may
place the left corner of the mouth parallel with the
edge of the nose, even though the photo doesn't show
that. So the mouth looks just like the mouth in the
photo, only smaller, and closer to the nose. |
