Caricatures: Today's Caricature: My Form Class 4N2: 27 March 09

It was the morning mother tougue reading period when Mr. Pandian (another form-teacher of 4N2) passed to me a list of photo of our class.

While the students were reading, I took out an A4 paper and started drawing one of them. Then it became two, then three, then four... then the whole class of boys from the class.

Caricature @ ARPC: Childrens' Church BBQ on 20 March 2009

It was a cool evening after a light shower. I did my carpark duty (for an hour) over at the Singapore Bible College and was just in time for some cooked BBQ chicken wings and delicious Satays at 1945hrs.

During the time of parents and teachers' interaction, Janice (top left) came to me and requested that I drew some cartoons for her. She had became a mini-fan of my cartoons when she first saw a cartoon I drew. That cartoon was a bearded guy, which actually was part of my notes taken during the morning sermon in church. That's right, I take notes using cartoons... =)

Since Janice could not think of what I should draw and what to draw on, I suggested drawing on a paper plate. Immediately I popped into the church office to grab whatever pen I could find.

The first drawing for the night turned out to be a caricature of Janice. Then for the next hour and a half I drew close to 10 kids using the back of Paper Plates and a pilot V-5 Hi-Techpoint pen taken from Karen's (ARPC Staff Worker) table.

Caricature @ ACAS: Full Body & Color

Did 3 full-body colored caricatures on 8" by 5" cards on 21 March 2009.

Very handy and easy to keep.

Assoc Prof Fatimah Lateef (MP) - Free Time Sketch

 Photo found later...

Saw this public figure being interviewed on the TV news . I just happened to have my faithful Pilot G-2 with me and a piece of paper within my reach. With less than 10 seconds to observe the features before the next news scene, I got this out mainly from memory.

Sketched using a Pilot G-2

Caricature - Live @ the ACAS...

That's Thalia...

That's Catherine... That's Apple... And that's Anton...

Full body caricatures with (some) color at the Association of Comic Artists (Singapore).

Above are some aspiring new generation of comic or maybe manga artists being very sporting 'models' for a caricature session in between class.

Somehow I drew a cat in 3 out of 4 caricatures. I drew the first cat when Apple says she loves cats. I found it so cute I drew them in for the rest. Accept Anton's which is pretty plain here. He feedbacked that he wished his were more funny... ('Point taken...')

Caricature Just Pencils: Villegas, Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, Jim Carrey, David Letterman

Villegas (2008)

Will Smith (2008)

Morgan Freeman (2008)
Jim Carrey (2008)

David Letterman (2008)
Caricatures in pencil is very must less stressful as compared with doing it directly with ink or markers.

To find subjects to draw I thought it would be better to draw someone whom many people are familiar with. At least I (the artist) should be familiar! It is important for a start to find someone easily recognisable because a caricature drawn on a person must satisfy at least two criterion. Firstly, it must resemble that person (i.e. likeness which makes people go, 'Ah... I know him!!!'). Secondly, though resembling that person, both the facial and body expression must be exagerated (i.e. which makes people go, '... that's funny!!!)

Actually there is a third criteria. I placed it separate because this has nothing to do with the caricature artist. It has everything to do with the audience and the recipients of the caricature art work. The recipients and the audience MUST understand the difference between a caricature and a portrait.

How do we know if someone does not understand the difference between a caricature and a portrait? Simple. When you hear, 'Hey! I know my nose is pretty big, but why is it so oversized in the drawing?" or "Why he drew my eyes so tiny?" or "How come it doesn't look like me exactly?" etc... etc... etc.. so on and so forth... and this one "I want my money back for drawing me FUNNY!!!"

Back to the topic. I took images from the magazine (Villegas was from a golf magazine) and from the internet (the rest up there). And then what do I do. Erm... of ya... draw. =)

I have to admit, some looked more a portrait than a caricature... =p
Sketched using a 0.5 Mechanical Pencil. Lead: 4B

Caricature Just Markers: Jennifer Anniston, Sylvester Stallone, Morgan Freeman, Henry Thia, Mark Lee

Jennifer Anniston

Sylvester Stallone

Morgan Freeman

Henry Thia
Mark Lee

Drawing caricature in a single process from a marker requires some GUTS.
A method used frequently by very confident and experienced caricature artists cause it not only saves (lots & lots & lots of) time, the process of drawing directly from a marker is something people will watch and think to themselves "Wow..."

But here I have some caricatures done by ME direct with MARKERS from images I got from the internet. Shown above is Jennifer Anniston drawn in a single attempt, others like Sylvester Stallone and Morgan Freeman after the second attempt. Mark Lee and Henry Thia were marker'ed after one warm-up sketch in pencils on a seperate piece of A4.

Sure looking forward to draw LIVE caricatures direct from markers... (soon)...



Sketched using Copic Sketch Marker

Caricature ME! Daniel Lim: Just a PILOT G-2 G7 pen

Here is a caricature of myself, supposedly in safari clothing, from a little A6 Sketch book which I sometimes carry it around where ever I go. Sketched from memory... love those sketchy lines though they may look pretty unfinished... but I call it a personal style! =) Part of drawing directly in INK saves lots of time...
Sketched using a Pilot G-2 0.7