09-04-2014, 02:10 AM
Yo Flo! Nice to see you're getting into caricature! I've been doing those as my job for a couple months now XD I agree, they're a fantastic way to up your observational skills and have some fun! The shapes in this one look pretty fun, keep in mind you can always push the shapes further. It's fun sometimes to do a caricature and then do a caricature of the caricature trying to make a more extreme statement, while still making it look like the person.
One tip I heard all the time in art school was to make sure when you cross hatch the lines don't go perpendicular to each other, it makes a flattening effect. That can look col in negative space or for flat surfaces but I don't think it works well for skin. When you need the hatching to go darker, try making the second set of lines like the first but tilted slightly, instead of almost 90 degrees to the originals. More like you did in the forehead, less like you did in the nose
One tip I heard all the time in art school was to make sure when you cross hatch the lines don't go perpendicular to each other, it makes a flattening effect. That can look col in negative space or for flat surfaces but I don't think it works well for skin. When you need the hatching to go darker, try making the second set of lines like the first but tilted slightly, instead of almost 90 degrees to the originals. More like you did in the forehead, less like you did in the nose