Editorial Cartoon: Caricature Fail

 

This cartoon was inspired by my attempts over the last 4 months to do more caricature work.  If you get a caricature done by me or someone else there are several reactions you may have.

1. Wow that picture is great and it looks like me.
2. Wow that picture is great but I am not sure it looks like me.
3. That picture isn’t good/flattering but it does look like me
4. That picture sucks and it doesn’t look anything like me.

I have run the gamut of reactions to my own work, though I have only had one person actually tell me number four (yet more probably felt that way).  I had my wife, and biggest critic, look over the work and she said “Yeah it looks like her, she just isn’t that attractive.”  I find that women are way more sensitive to you pointing out prominent characteristics in caricature.  I tend to go more realistic versus cartoony as I do with men.

A piece of advice I got from Jerry Dowling, former Cincinnati Enquirer editorial cartoonist and caricature artist, is that you should over emphasize the size of women’s eyes…they seem to like that.  He may or may not have said something about boob size too, I can’t remember.

He related a story of live drawing a caricature of a woman as her husband was looking over his shoulder.  Suddenly, her husband, who obviously thought the drawing wasn’t pretty enough, said “Don’t you know she is a former Beauty Queen.”  To which Jerry handed him his pen and said “Great, so you finish up the drawing”

Occupy 2012

Happy New Year to all. Hope you have a healthy 2012 so we can all be here for 2013 to do it all over again.

Editorial Cartoon: Kim Jong Un Pajamas

It is a sad day at the Friggin Loon’s site as she no longer has Kim Jong Il to kick around.  Happily though it looks like his son, Kim Jong Un, has taken up daddy’s job as Supreme Ruler so well that he has begun wearing the Pajama looking outfits made famous by his father.

And even the website Kim Jong Il Looking at Things has made the transition to Kim Jong Un Looking at Things.  Click here for Il and Un looking at each other wearing PJs.

Guest Cartoon The Lamest and Xmas Cheer

The Christmas gifts keep going. Before getting his site hacked earlier this year, Dr Faust ran the site http://www.thelamest.com/.   His site was full of funny lists and lame things people do.  But I didn’t know he could draw.   Blown away by his Occupy North Pole guest cartoon.  (Click the image to see all the detail)  Hurry back and keep drawing J.

The next day I checked my email to see some Christmas cheer from Dawn at Zorphbert and Fred Comic.

The image depicts Dawn, her husband Rick and their dog April in a classic Grinch who Stole Christmas scene

Thanks so much to both.  Be safe out there everyone!

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