Meet
Big Al Lopez, caricature artist, and
National Caricaturist Network member. Exaggerating Big Al is more of a challenge than it first appears. The weight of the exaggeration is around the cheeks and jowls, but the nose and brow also compete for attention. After a couple of discarded loose sketches (being distracted by the nose and brow)...
...I started my third sketch (above) with a few foundation lines and shapes (below), a curved line for the back of the neck, and two circles for the bulk of the face and positioning of the brow.
The curved line at the back of the neck is essential to the exaggeration as it pushes or forces every feature in the main circle into a triangle or pyramid shape, which also allows for exaggeration of the nose.
I didn't draw these lines for my sketch, the ones above are just for demonstration, but I had them in my head when sketching.
The rest is elementary, as the foundation line is doing a lot of the work, one curved line dictating the exaggeration of the features, expression, the lift of his left brow and the extention of the lower lip. You could say I had no part in this exaggeration at all...the lines did it!
Meet Big Al Lopez, caricature artist, and National Caricaturist Network member. Exaggerating Big Al is more of a challenge than it first appears. The weight of the exaggeration is around the cheeks and jowls, but the nose and brow also compete for attention. After a couple of discarded loose sketches (being distracted by the nose and brow)... 
...I started my third sketch (above) with a few foundation lines and shapes (below), a curved line for the back of the neck, and two circles for the bulk of the face and positioning of the brow.
The rest is elementary, as the foundation line is doing a lot of the work, one curved line dictating the exaggeration of the features, expression, the lift of his left brow and the extention of the lower lip. You could say I had no part in this exaggeration at all...the lines did it!
Comments
Thanks for that Vin. I guess I'll either have to live with the graininess or make it a small .wmv file.
And you allow me to know Big Al Lopez. Great caricatoonist.
Greetings.
Been visiting your blog a lot lately, and i love your work... looking at great work like yours keeps me going after a long day of unsuccessful theme park caricatures..haha
keep it up!
great demonstration of your method. Very intersting, and great result.
(and, I'm just making a link to your blog too)
Good job is great , super
Ton travail est super génial , j'aime beaucoup ce que tu fais bravo ... Clap clap clap ..
great demonstration of your method. Very interestig,thanks for sharing that,
jan
very much, it looks so real, awesome!!