Caricature artist AJ Jensen breaks down the fundamentals of drawing caricatures.
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the festival was incredible! I loved the piece that your team did for my wife and I. Also, you hired a great band for live music! What a dope event!! Doing it again next year?
@@twofacecomix It’s not fun. The last time I did it was with 4 people in color and it tore the paper in half somehow. But they were okay with me just taping it up from the back. I think they knew how frustrating it was. Thank god for understanding people sometimes.
It was extremely hot but such an amazing day! The vendors rocked, and the artist put out some amazing work! It was just as much fun watching other people get their caricature done as is was getting ours done! We can't wait to see what's next ♡
I’m having trouble getting the neo color smooth on the paper. Can you make a video demonstrating that please? I already tilt it to the side and have a foam board under my paper but it still comes out rough.
Absolutely! Although, to be 100% transparent, I am holding off on doing videos on how to color caricatures because I want those videos to be super comprehensive. But here are some tips that might help you now: 1. Use smoother paper. Hammermill makes a smoother paper that allows the Neo Colors to go on smoother. 2. Shape the stick. Ive noticed that when I shape the stick to have a more squared edge, it prevents making those rough strokes. 3. Make spheres! Make circles with a marker, and make a color gradient sphere with the Neo Colors. It’s all about gradients anyways! The more control you can have over your gradients - the better it will look. Also, while practicing this, work on your color palette. I’ve found several pallets that I still use just because of doing this exercise. 4. Realize every second you practice you gain experience. It’s good that you’re honest with yourself and you want to boost your skill on coloring. You realized your problem. Now it’s time to solve it. You’re going to improve far better by taking the time to just sit down and practice. Errors are not a bad thing. I get it’s hard to see it like that because us artists are super critical. But treat it like a video game. You can’t level up your character to 100 without first slaughtering some molerats. So just put 10 minutes in a day, solely focusing on coloring and I promise you will notice a difference.
What kind of material is the drawing board on the bob lite easel? And do you guys use any kind of mat or foam board under your paper to make the marker lines or coloring smoother? Btw I love your videos and I look forward to them each week
@@antpag237 Brilliant Question! The drawing board is Aluminum Composite. It has a has a plastic core, sandwiched between two aluminum sheets. It’s super lightweight. As far as what we use under the sheets, we use a foamy sheet if we are going to color the caricature. This foamy sheet allows the color sticks to go on far smoother. Works perfectly with Crayola Color Sticks or Neo Color I I appreciate you for watching! Keep commenting! You have awesome questions!
I’ve worked on Sergio’s easel before yet I did hear he did some bigger upgrades on them. I just didn’t have one to create this video. Maybe in the future I can get this done!
I appreciate the motivation. I have more that I plan on uploading almost every Thursday! So every comment and like you make, goes a long way - especially the motivation!
@@HmHm-g3x This is actually an excellent question!!! The short answer: yes The long answer: Likeness is very valuable in order to complete a caricature. For the most part, likeness is seen visually. For example: the size and placement of a feature. This is accomplished by measuring in relevance to other features. Which, in my opinion, is a huge distinction for portraiture- measuring. So learning this type of artistic expression is going to help you when doing caricatures. Understanding anatomy and measurements will help you along your caricature journey. Yet… Likeness stretches further than what is visual. It’s all about finding that persons essences. Which can be a VAST range of identifiers. From smells, to personality, to even presence. When you are able to identify these traits on your subject, and express them artistically, then you’re going to be a very good caricature artist. Now this is just my opinion, but I feel like portraiture ignores this abstract way of thinking - confining you to just looking at your subject visually. Yet, caricature is all about pushing the envelope. So you’re sort of forced to think abstractly and find key indicators that go past a visual means. So… learning portraits will help you doing caricature. But that doesn’t mean you have to if you’re able to translate a likeness visually, emotionally, or personally - then exaggerate it.
@@ToonHeadz sir thank you. Your answer was helpful. But it's even better understandable if you make a video on this topic(likeness, emotions or personal). I recently started to learn caricature. But I can't find likeness in my caricature that I draw and also I don't know to draw portrait.
