Hey you might remember that a while back... in the before time... I did some caricatures for the forums Alright thank you for the suggestions! I have chosen which ones to do & will get to it later today Doctor Dogballs fucked around with this message at 18:24 on May 5, 2020 |
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# ¿ May 5, 2020 05:21 |
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 18:51 |
Alright I had got SUPER busy in the first part of the month finishing up a class, and after that I have been putting serious work into something else very exciting and important, but about which I cannot yet tell you anything! But anyway, it's been a long time since I did any serious drawing and I felt like I really need to knock the rust off. So I finally made myself finish this up. First I had to select a subject. I went with Jack Nicholson because I felt like easing back into drawing by doing just a face. His face is super distinct and weird in some ways which makes this both easier and more difficult. I don't like to do my caricatures in a very typical way. But Jack's features are already so weird that exaggerating them at all pushes him into a hokey, carnival-caricature type of look that I don't like at all. One reason I picked him is because I like to do these on people I've seen not only just in a lot of pictures, but seen video of. The Pee-Wee & Hulk Hogan were also good options but two faces is twice the work after all As a result the picture ended up not really being a "caricature" in a typical sense. What I tried to do was just capture his facial expression at its most Nicholsonish. I just used google image search for reference pictures. I try hard not to just use a single picture, but to actually use many pictures to come up with a good understanding of the subject's 3d face structure. In this way I try to avoid just copying their whole pose, expression, etc. from a single photo. I do a couple of sketches of particular parts of their face or head that are interesting, then come up with an complete sketch that I will draw over. Then I start to draw over it with ink. I don't really have a pattern to this process except I start with eyes and the tip of the nose because those are the most likely to be messed up and ruin it. If I ruin it early, then it's not as big of a loss to start over. After all the main outlines are done, I add detail lines and use cross-hatching to shade and give depth. This is the "final" drawing. I'm noticing things I want to add to it but I don't really feel like re-scanning and uploading it, so ... enjoy! supplies I used strathmore drawing paper. I have a bunch of different papers but I use this one for this because it's bright white and doesn't feather. On cheaper papers, ink from my pens spreads out a little and the lines become jagged. It ruins the whole thing. I used a regular cheap bic mechanical pencil to sketch and a nice Staedler eraser to clean up. Never use the erasers that come on the mechanical pencils! Use a good eraser! To ink, I used three pens: a Pentel brush pen, and 2 eyedropper-filler Moonman fountain pens, one with a Fine nib and one with an Extra Fine. On my older drawings, I used the brush and some dip pens. However, here I used fountain pens for the convenience of not needing to dip them. I really just use the brush pen for the outermost, thick line around the face. The fountain pens were filled with Montblanc black ink. This is really a writing ink, not a drawing ink. This ink is not waterproof at all, but it's not an issue for this situation since I wasn't going to color it. Also, with bigger pen nibs, this ink shows some gray-to-black shading, instead of being a single consistent black color. However, it works fine with nibs these small. IMHO, the best drawing ink in the world is Deleter #4 ink. But it's a dip pen ink, and I just didn't need its special properties here. It was more advantageous to go with the fountain pens. ---------------- |
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# ¿ May 31, 2020 05:45 |