For over two years now, I’ve been doing caricatures all over Massachusetts. I’ve done them at corporate functions, school events, birthday parties, and festivals. It’s something that I’ve always enjoyed doing. I’ve learned that drawing a good caricature is a lot different than just being really good at illustrator. Especially when you have a line of 20 people waiting to have their picture drawn. The trick is to capture the person’s most pronounced features and finish the drawing in about 8 minutes or less for black & white and 15 minutes for color.
“You’re your own worst critic.”
It’s true. Sure, over the years I’ve drawn my own likeness, but I’ve never done a caricature of myself that I was 100% happy with. So finally, the other day I sat down with my pencils, pad, erasers and whipped up a sketch of myself. From there I scanned it and touched it up in Photoshop. Then I brought it into Illustrator to give it a cleaner look.
I’ve decided I’m going to start doing more of this style caricature illustrations of my friends and family. So make sure you stop by my site frequently to check for new illustrations. You can also subscribe to my RSS feed to be updated automatically. If you would like one for yourself, a friend, a relative, maybe of a stranger (wait, that’s a little creepy), you can contact me at chris[at]chrislikestodraw.com.
