Karikatura drawing

Freddie Mercury

Rowan Atkinson

Here’s my Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Day 96. He’s a pretty easy caricature for most people because he has a very obvious head shape for exaggeration. Everything starts with the shape of the head. If you can see and exaggerate the head shape effectively, the rest of the caricature falls into place because the other shapes have to fit into that exaggerated head shape. Dwayne has a classic “bullet head” with a small cranial mass. It’s partly because he is bald, but mostly because he has a…

This series of “How to Draw Caricatures” tutorials are a just a small taste of a larger and much more in-depth book I wrote called The Mad Art of Caricature! The book is 175 full-color pages, lavishly illustrated and contains greatly expanded explanations of the concepts presented in these tutorials, as well and a great deal of additional material on caricaturing other facial features, posture, hands, expression and more, techniques on drawing from live models, doing caricature for freeplace…

by TeacherLem Iglesias Several months back, we organised a two-day workshop titled “Bonding through Art” as part of our school’s Professional Development programme. I was asked to present and faci…

Charlie Chaplin sketch by Ameen Farooqi