Drawing faces, caricatures, portraits,
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caricatures, and portraits; What do artist's have that you don't - and how do you get it? See how drawing and caricature art is truly within your grasp. |
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Caricatures crack me up - What about you?
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Sketch
in an eye brow. The artist looks up at the subject. Then down at the
paper. Now zip in an eye, a nose. Looking up, now looking down. Smudge
in a little shadow, zigzag in a little hair. The onlookers following
the artist’s hand and head movements like a tennis match on it’s side.
And it’s all over in 5 minutes, and everyone’s smiling. Well most of
the time. :-) It really pulls you in!
Then these same people who were telling me how impressed they were watching the artist at work always add something like “but I could never do that”. That used to make me feel bad for these folks, like they might forever miss out on the pleasure and pure satisfaction drawing can offer them. But did you know drawing faces, or caricatures, or anything for that matter is completely within your grasp? It’s all in learning the basics - which most people have never been shown.
Most of those folks - these Picasso types - who stumbled on to at least a few of these skills as kids, well that little bit of skill got them noticed. And getting noticed as having some kind of “gift” got those around them interested in giving these kids just that little extra nudge. The truth is, these “gifted” ones still had to be taught most of what they now know - the stuff that made them great. It was all this extra training and attention built around those early discoveries that helped launch them into the art world stratosphere. Yes, it seems some people are born just knowing they’re supposed to do nothing else with their lives but draw (like the Picassos, the Degas, the Da Vincis). But you can be shown
those very basic skills they built their mastery on and without devoting
your entire life to it - and still make money doing it. Maybe you have the
drive and vision to become - who knows - the next Picasso. Or you’ll just
be tickled to be able to draw a realistic picture of your pets, or even
realistic caricatures. However far you want to take it, that's up to you!
But you can learn if you want to. I'm hardly the discoverer of that fact,
but at this site you can find out how.
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