Showing posts with label exaggeration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exaggeration. Show all posts
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Friday, July 30, 2010
Caricature!
Sorry it's been a while since my last post. I've been making a painting in Corel Painter, which I am still trying to get the hang of. It's coming along nicely and it's about halfway done, it's just very time consuming. In the meantime here are some sketchbook doodles to share, mostly caricature.
Let's see well on this page we have Cilla Black, Nancy Sinatra (a badly done one and a decent one), Dovima, and Suzy Parker. The one in the top-right is unknown and the other two are made-up... Well the one red head does resemble a lot like Lois Griffin from "Family Guy" but that was unintentional.
Matt Damon's with Hugh Grant!
Unfinished Calista Flockhart, forgot the one on the top-right and bottom-left, Katie Holmes and Katie Couric.
Tim Gunn's, Nina Garcia, Jay Leno, Johnny Depp, and Will Ferrell.
FRUITS!!!
Just some weird looking model I found in Elle magazine.
Dovima, I need to do more full body drawing, I rarely do them.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Little Project.
So while I've been improving my drawings i decided possibly tackling on a little project. It's just going to be kind of a music video to a short song that i really like. I'm still pretty early in the project to have a desire to tell you what it's all about and what will happen. But I'll share with you my main character.
The song was made back in the fifties and sung by a very sly and hip black man (he was associated with the beatniks). So I made black character in a zoot suit, i think that his overall appearance is instantly recognizable and without speaking a word we have a general idea of what kind of person he is, energetic, fun, and hip. He is based off of Prince Chawmin' from "Coal Black & da' Seben Dwarves" but the racial stereotypes will be a little toned down as to not alienate my entire audience.
Speaking of racial stereotypes, let me know about what you think about how i drew his lips I'm concerned that maybe it's a little too much, but I don't want to change it for a couple reasons. First being that they are incredibly fun to draw, not just the lips but this entire character just falls off my pencil so effortlessly. One of the reasons why it's fun to draw is that they are very expressive and i can get some good emotions out of them, I also can't wait to start animating him speaking, I'm going to have tons o' fun exaggerating the way he talks.
But another reason is that, I'm afraid that by toning it down a little he won't be as graphically recognizable, The new Disney movie that's coming out "The Princess and the Frog" which is centered around people of a darker complexion, some of the drawings just strike me as stock doodles of white people they had laying around and painted a different color. I think that if you take away the color and all you have left is the ink, most of the characters you probably wouldn't think were black unless someone told you.
I'm of course not telling anyone to draw features so exaggerated that they are offensive, but to draw something until it's universally recognizable and some of the new Disney characters they do a pretty good job at realizing this fine line, but they're human drawings also look like they are not very fun to work with.
Also, so long as your not being tasteless and just having fun, no one should be offended.
The song was made back in the fifties and sung by a very sly and hip black man (he was associated with the beatniks). So I made black character in a zoot suit, i think that his overall appearance is instantly recognizable and without speaking a word we have a general idea of what kind of person he is, energetic, fun, and hip. He is based off of Prince Chawmin' from "Coal Black & da' Seben Dwarves" but the racial stereotypes will be a little toned down as to not alienate my entire audience.
Speaking of racial stereotypes, let me know about what you think about how i drew his lips I'm concerned that maybe it's a little too much, but I don't want to change it for a couple reasons. First being that they are incredibly fun to draw, not just the lips but this entire character just falls off my pencil so effortlessly. One of the reasons why it's fun to draw is that they are very expressive and i can get some good emotions out of them, I also can't wait to start animating him speaking, I'm going to have tons o' fun exaggerating the way he talks.
But another reason is that, I'm afraid that by toning it down a little he won't be as graphically recognizable, The new Disney movie that's coming out "The Princess and the Frog" which is centered around people of a darker complexion, some of the drawings just strike me as stock doodles of white people they had laying around and painted a different color. I think that if you take away the color and all you have left is the ink, most of the characters you probably wouldn't think were black unless someone told you.
I'm of course not telling anyone to draw features so exaggerated that they are offensive, but to draw something until it's universally recognizable and some of the new Disney characters they do a pretty good job at realizing this fine line, but they're human drawings also look like they are not very fun to work with.
Also, so long as your not being tasteless and just having fun, no one should be offended.
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