samedi 9 septembre 2017

Be Your Own Caricature Artist Houston

By Melissa Schmidt


Caricatures are portraits of exaggerated features of a person or a thing. To draw a person's caricature, you will need to understand the components of a face, and what makes one face noticeably different from another. While it takes knowledge and practice to identify particular features that makes a person unique, a program that emulates a caricature artist houston called a caricature generator can do just that.

There have been many times I have drawn someone, and when they look at the drawing I did of them, they get a flash of self-discovery that may very possibly change their lives forever. How wonderful is that? I remember a time I was drawing at a Grief Camp for children.

The caricature generator works almost similarly. This program basically holds a database of common faces. When you upload a picture of your face into this program, it compares your face with its database. With this information, it takes the average common face as its guide to which part of your facial features it should amplify. For example, if your eyes are bigger or rounder than the norm, the program will accentuate your eyes by doubling or tripling its size.

However, with this program, it does not leave out details that do not stand out completely but only gives less exaggeration towards the feature. Nevertheless, this program is able to keep the exaggerated details within recognizable boundaries, only adding a little distortion to form the character of what makes a cartoon.

Keep in mind that a caricature must have these elements: likelihood to the person you are drawing and its exaggeration. Without either of these two, there is no caricature. Caricatures also convey a message about the character being drawn or a situation.

This was the crack in the barrier wall that the counselors were waiting for and immediately took advantage of the situation. Driving a wedge into the emotional crack in her wall, they began the healing process for her. The girl gave me a huge tight hug and as she walked off with her counselor, the counselor looked over her shoulder and silently said "thank you". That is why I will always strive to see the best in my subjects, particularly young people.

If you've been to a street fair or amusement park lately, you may have seen a cartoon artist in action. People stop to have their comic portraits drawn in a cartoon style, often with very large heads and tiny bodies doing something funny. If you'd like to learn how to draw these types of drawings, the book, Face Off: How to Draw Amazing Caricatures and Comic Portraits, by Harry Hamernik, can help.

The book starts by discussing materials and supplies you will need, including pencils, paper, markers and color pencils. I like the instructions for a do-it-yourself lap easel, which can be made cheaply if you have very basic handy construction skills.




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