One of the things that I especially like about drawing by hand. On paper. Is the Life that can be felt and then seen ~ in each stroke. Does Not look like it's done by a machine. Has not been done by anyone else. I live.

Without looking at the previous Caricatures that I drew, I used some of the reference photos from my website to practice the technique that I use for drawing Wild Caricatures. I'm understanding better what it is when I do this. Getting more awareness over how I draw.

I did notice, though, that it's easier to get the Wild Visions when looking at pictures of how people React to what I drew. They might not always be so interesting to look at when they first sit down to be drawn.

I recently decided that a direct approach for Exaggeration is the way to go for quality Caricatures. I got smooth with it, and I feel happy with the responses from people at Parties.

But here I am again, questioning the way to go. Again. Time off, drawing Party-Style Caricatures from random photos. The first of each pair uses my quick Exaggerated style. The 2nd of each pair uses more of a fill-in-the-blanks sort of style that people do seem to like also. I especially notice that they like it when I am putting myself out there with exaggerations while I am working along-side an artist who is calmly 'doing it right'? Is that what the public thinks when they eyes, nose, mouth repeat 'basic proportions' that we learn as students? In the first pair of pictures, I felt like the exaggerated Caricature was the only one I liked. I feel like the plainer style, which would also go over well at a party, is dinky. That's the way I expected to feel about the 2 different styles. But in the 2nd pair of pictures, drawn very quickly ~ I'm feeling tired here in my own studio, I felt surprised to like the 2nd style, the plainer, just 'correct' picture better. It really does just look more Correct........Granted they both Look very similar (did I mention that my mind is flitting out of this time-off activity today), but I felt like I was using the different approaches for them. First one = exaggerated approach. 2nd one = studied placements.

Wondering if I would ever just Settle. But then I realized that There is No Need to Settle On Only One Approach. I can do whichever approach works for the specific face that is in front of me.

I will be drawing at a 70-year-old's Birthday Party tomorrow, so I figured I should draw a bit. Warm up you know.

I drew a few Caricatures based on random photos. Good thing I'm doing these Warm Ups because I had bum-starts on the first two pictures that I drew. I had to restart the one with the Green Arrow because everything was too tenuous. And I had to restart the 2nd one (lady with gray hair) because I forgot to soften the staring front view of the reference photo. Then, I figured that I should draw a man.....

Feeling too tired to give it much umph. It's probably more important that I get some Sleep than that I keep drawing