Face Off shows you how to draw life like never before. Caricaturist Harold Hamernik shares the secrets to capturing the sillier side of friends, family, celebrities, strangers—any face that crosses your path.
40 step-by-step demonstrations show you how to sketch whimsical and expressive likenesses while developing your own quick, loose, improvisational style. You'll get expert instruction on:
Drawing eyes, noses, mouths and other features.
Creating portraits in front, three-quarter and profile views.
Adding color to your caricatures, either by hand or via computer—instruction you won't find in any other book!
Tips for making a likeness more masculine (skip the eyelashes), more feminine (lengthen the neck), younger, older, sexier, goofier—all while making a portrait your subject will love.
How to draw hair as two simple lines, why drawing the parts of a face in the same order every time can cut minutes off your work, and tons of other handy tricks of the craft!
Practice the simple techniques in this book, then start drawing! It's the most fun you can have with paper, pencils and markers!
Harry Hamernik is one of the humans I abstruse caricatures from about 10 years ago at Sea World In San Diego. He again confused on to be administrator at Legoland and Knott's Berry Farm. I helped him alpha operations at Knott's, hiring 30+ artists who never drew with a brand or with a reside archetypal in foreground of them. It was the aboriginal time I approved to alternation that abounding artists but Harry had already been accomplishing it for years, every division a new accumulation of crazy artists. So he knows how to present the bare advice and ability a advanced ambit of people. Unlike a lot of the "how to draw" books getting produced these canicule by accepted artists who try to capitalize on the accretion bazaar by publishing books alfresco of their acreage of experience, Harry is a alive able in the field. He's aswell an adviser at The Art Institute in San Diego, so he knows how to teach.
I aswell abide to advise caricatures and was cerebration of autograph my own book but I will not bother now. There's not abundant I could add to this book, I would just adage the aforementioned things in my own words. He's anticipation through the quick account action and included aggregate a abecedarian would charge to know. It will aswell advice a added accomplished artists who's cocky accomplished or needs a beginning angle on the craft. It's abounding of useful, footfall by footfall examples with photos of the archetypal to analyze the assets to. He's fabricated my job a lot easier, now if I appoint an artisan and activate training them I crave that they convenance from Harry's book and I just analysis on their progress.
I awful acclaim this book.
This book combines both abundant aesthetic abilities with advisory abilities to actualize an accomplished book for the beneath accomplished burlesque artist. I begin abundant that I could use in convalescent my own caricaturing aural this book's pages. The columnist shows footfall by footfall fractional assets forth with the completed atramentous and white caricature, as able-bodied as the black in version. I like the author's caricaturing style, not over exagerated, but actual apparent as the being pictured. This is the book, that I anticipate I will get the a lot of use out of, of the 4 books that I purchased together. I absolutely adulation it.
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