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Comic and accessible, with great scope for invention, caricatures are a joy to draw. In this book, author and illustrator Peter Gray works through the process of achieving a likeness and distorting it in imaginative ways for maximum effect. Tailored step-by-step exercises help aspiring caricaturists to build up their skills, and handy hints will keep them in the know about techniques and materials.
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Peter Gray has contributed illustrations to many books, of wide-ranging subject matter, from classic fiction to educational and historical.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Peter Gray's approach is so simple that it qualifies as a work of genius. It raises simplicity up to a higher plane than many much wordier, extensive, expensive volumes do.
"Drawing Caricatures." Contains everything you can learn from a book about drawing and caricature easily and quickly accessible.
Inside you will see his superb simple illustrations and some great art too.
If you are beginning to draw this book will be your best friend and keep you motivated to do what you love.
Experienced veterans and aspirants will enjoy the utter simplicity of style and presentation Peter has achieved in this and in my opinion all his other works in his series of master classes.
Anyone who wants to improve or rediscover the artist in them has an easily affordable friendly tutor to hand with any of the practical guides in his series.
"Drawing Caricatures." Contains everything you can learn from a book about drawing and caricature easily and quickly accessible.
Inside you will see his superb simple illustrations and some great art too.
If you are beginning to draw this book will be your best friend and keep you motivated to do what you love.
Experienced veterans and aspirants will enjoy the utter simplicity of style and presentation Peter has achieved in this and in my opinion all his other works in his series of master classes.
Anyone who wants to improve or rediscover the artist in them has an easily affordable friendly tutor to hand with any of the practical guides in his series.
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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Misnomer: this is not a CARICATURING book but a PORTRAIT book
5 Jun 2010
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Caricatures are NOT portraits! This book does what almost all the new books supposedly/purportedly calling themselves "Caricature" books do: it gives the basic rules for how to draw a realistic PORTRAIT, and then says, "Okay, now just exaggerate the nose or some other feature a little, and VOILA! You have a caricature!"
Not so fast. That is NOT a true caricature at all. Yes, I am guilty of doing some portraits along these lines, and I sometimes refer to them as caricatures for the sake of a shorthand description of them. (See [...]) But to write a whole book (well, this is very skinny, maybe I shouldn't call it a whole book) with the basics of portraiture and then call it a book on caricature, is misleading. I appreciate the effort and work it takes to put together a book, but...
If you can't draw funny in a perfectly natural way, without having to resort to a formula, you are not a caricature artist and you are never going to become one. Period. Your brain just isn't wired the right way. Sure, go ahead and try to see if you have some fun, but then do it in a spirit of total humor, not trying to craft some stuffy portrait and then distort it in random ways to hope to arrive at a caricature. To that end, books like this may do you more harm than good.
People with basic drawing skills who try to force a caricature are like people with basic public speaking skills who try to suddenly get up on stage and force standup comedy. You aren't a naturally funny person, you are not going to "learn" to become one, and the "comedy" or caricatures you do will be BAD. You shouldn't be there, you're only making us uncomfortable and ruining the art form for the few who really have an actual gift for it.
Not so fast. That is NOT a true caricature at all. Yes, I am guilty of doing some portraits along these lines, and I sometimes refer to them as caricatures for the sake of a shorthand description of them. (See [...]) But to write a whole book (well, this is very skinny, maybe I shouldn't call it a whole book) with the basics of portraiture and then call it a book on caricature, is misleading. I appreciate the effort and work it takes to put together a book, but...
If you can't draw funny in a perfectly natural way, without having to resort to a formula, you are not a caricature artist and you are never going to become one. Period. Your brain just isn't wired the right way. Sure, go ahead and try to see if you have some fun, but then do it in a spirit of total humor, not trying to craft some stuffy portrait and then distort it in random ways to hope to arrive at a caricature. To that end, books like this may do you more harm than good.
People with basic drawing skills who try to force a caricature are like people with basic public speaking skills who try to suddenly get up on stage and force standup comedy. You aren't a naturally funny person, you are not going to "learn" to become one, and the "comedy" or caricatures you do will be BAD. You shouldn't be there, you're only making us uncomfortable and ruining the art form for the few who really have an actual gift for it.
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