Caricature

To illustrate my lack of diversity, have this picture:

Suuure I tried to draw different noses and stuff within a certain ratio, but I always feel a little insecure(?) about taking things to the extreme. It is pretty frustrating to feel like all my faces look the same. This might not be the most confronting example, but I feel really reluctant to show some of my old doodles. You could visit my outdated portfolio while it is still up to check :/

What I hope to achieve by practising caricature is more expressive and diverse characters as well as objects. It is a lot of observing, exaggerating, practising and (obviously) making people angry hehehe.

Freaking angles man! I should keep my board toggled when drawing...

Hah.. Yeah I have the best boyfriend.

Suddenly a leek on my desk. Might as well!

I have always been a bit shy when drawing in public, but after practising caricatures for even a short while I feel a lot more comfortable! Even if the drawings are not that good, haha. I have to practise for a reason, right? (kind of sad...) Furthermore, I noticed that I really really suck at drawing caricatures from photo's. I need the person to move around and interact to feel the result fits the "original".

You might have noticed I still don't exaggerate a lot... I'm still very slowly getting out of my shell. What I might be missing is a lot of anatomical knowledge, planar build-up and "flow" in my art, so let's losen that up a bit! I have yet to find "my" medium, though indian ink with a brush feels nice. Oh and black and white charcoal/crayons, mmmmmmm.

Tiny bird, big bird, angry fish and running leek!

I'm getting there...! Though it's very cartoony and not really the type of caricatures I am after.

Back for more!

Well, I never really left... I just didn't upload anything, haha;;

I am looking into shapes and exaggeration some more. It's easier to draw animals and objects than humans, since I can give them any kind of personality I want! I am having way too much fun looking at silly hands and paws... Also, fat.

Quick warming up, looked at some animal video's. 

Worked from the top of the paper to the bottom, but that might be pretty obvious, haha.

Decided to not go too toony with these as it feels really cheap. I want them to be a bit more childeren's book type drawings. 

Things I should look out for are: 

1. Don't make everything fat with tiny feet!
2. Variable linethickness (use it more)
3. Balance
4. How would the character move? Laugh? Eat?
5. Try two more approaches: one more animal like and one more whacky (these are a pretty tame middleway of the two)