How to Choose Facial Features for a Caricature

Video Transcript

"Welcome my name is Lars Erik Robinson and my company is Lars Arts All Around Artainment and today I'm going to talk about how I look at a caricature and what I look from a photo and how I render from that. There is a big difference from doing it from a small photo and actually doing it in real life. You have smaller areas that you look at and you really have to expand from that. This is a great one. I found this of Keifer Sutherland in a gossip magazine my wife had lying around the house and I love how his eyes are all droopy and what I first look at when I look at it is I look at o'kay I try to get his comparison of his eyes and see his slants. The eyes are what I always focus on first. Then I look at the general shape of how his whole face is so maybe it comes out more like that and you are always thinking about what mood he is in right now. He looks very tired and droopy looking. He has probably been up all night partying and then I get his nose. Some people have a really big nose, rounded nose and that's what I see in this picture here and then we have his as you can tell here his lip comes up a little bit more than on the side so I extend that and that is what you try to do in caricatures you notice his chin comes down and you have it coming down even more. So basically what you have to understand is that I usually start with the eyes but also there is also other caricatures if you see different features you can start with the outside of a caricature and get the outside form of it. Think of it as a balloon if it is bigger on the bottom and you squash the top of him it becomes bigger on the bottom so that is a good way to look at a face, if it looks like it is bigger on the bottom and smaller on the top. Well thank you and I hope that helped you guys understand more of what we go through as a caricature artist."