Sketch o’the Week- Workshop Sketch!

Sorry no time this week for a Batman villain sketch… I’m really under the gun with a deadline.

Instead, here’s a little look at what we do in one of my caricature workshops. The above is one of 30 faces in our workshop book that we draw live in class. The book contains a selection of different face types, ages, races, male/female, etc. Part of what we do is examine each face, discuss observations and how to exaggerate what we see, and I draw the face along with the class with my drawing projected on a big screen as it’s being done. The above was done in about 10-15 minutes as I talked about specific areas of focus, how to solve certain challenges each individual face might present, and how to effectively draw/caricature different features.

I explain my process, how I look at faces and find what I want to exaggerate, and how to break down the face to more easily build your caricature from the ground up. My goal with students us to have them looking at faces differently when they leave the class… to help “open their eye” for exaggeration and caricature.

Check out my workshop page for more details, and where I still have opening in my 2018 workshops.