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all that's left now is the glasses and his eyebrows. The
glasses are really going to make him look like Woody
Allen because the glasses are really the most prominent
feature on his face.
Start the glasses by drawing flat-topped semi-circles around
his eyes. Remember that his nose is going to be in front
of part of the right lens, so you won't draw that circle
all the way around. Make the circles big, the bigger the
better, but they can't be so big that you can't see the
face. Are the two semi-circles that you drew the inner
contour of the glasses or the outer contour? It doesn't
matter which, really. If you think the circles you drew
are large enough, then that was the outer contour. So
draw smaller semi-circles inside the first circles you
drew. And if you want to make the glasses larger than
the semi-circles you drew - draw two more semi-circle
outside the first ones you drew. When you're happy with the way you've drawn the
glasses finish them by drawing the arch over the nose
that connects the two lenses, and draw the arm that goes
over the ear. With that done, just go crazy with your
pencil and thicken the glasses by shading between the
two semi-circles. Make the
shading even around the glasses.
Finish
up by drawing small, sad looking eyebrows above the
glasses. The eyebrows are created by drawing the contour
of the eyebrow then shading the eyebrow contour in.
Don't shade the eyebrows in evenly because his eyebrows
aren't thick, single-colored shapes. You could give him
a small little chicken neck by drawing two lines down
from the jaw line. In caricature, it's common to draw
the neck off to one side or the other of the head. In
this instance I put his neck on the right side (Woody's
left side) of the head. To close off the two lines you
drew for the neck draw in his shirt collar. That could
be as simple as drawing a two triangular shapes that
extend out from the bottom of the neck you drew.
Practicing caricaturing by drawing celebrities from
photographs is fun. It's a good way to practice
caricaturing because there are plenty of celebrities to
choose from and their faces are often very distinct so
that you won't have to totally finish the drawing to be
able to tell if your drawing will look like who you are
drawing. Woody Allen was already starting to look like
him before we even drew the top half of his head. |
