Caricature tutorial

Hi all. So there's a first time for everything. This is my first gumroad tutorial. In this demo I show my process of setting up a caricature, based on the gesture in the face and adding volumes by adding tonality. In the video I talk you through the process from the very first line to the final result you can see as the cover for this product. 

With first times come first time mistakes, and as I played back the recording, I discovered the sound is a bit crunchy from time to time. So why not start my launch at gumroad with a discount. Only $5 for this demo, that lasts over an hour!!

The full tutorial can be found here:

https://gumroad.com/woutertulp

Annie M.G. Schmidt

Commissioned caricature of dutch writer Annie M.G. Schmidt. Oil on canvas 30 x 40 cm

RIP David Bowie

Conan

Caricature - art

From a young age I have been fascinated by the art of caricature. In art school caricatures were looked at as low art, and I wasn’t allowed to create caricatures there.
After school I got paid to do caricatures for magazines and newspapers.
Although I have always disagreed with the teachers who told me caricatures were not ‘real’ art, it is amazing how much impact their response had to how I looked at caricatures. After a while I even stopped drawing caricatures at all, because I felt I wouldn’t be taken seriously as an artist.

When I realised I started to have the same viewpoint on caricatures as the people who forbid me to draw them in art school, I realised something had gone very wrong. I started looking at the work of the people whose work had inspired me for so long. Caricaturists, like C.F.Payne, Paul van der Steen , David Levine, Natalie Ascencios but also painters from long ago. Then I realised there is no such thing as high art and low art. A portrait artist looks at his subject and decides what he wants to express. he chooses what he wants to emphasise, wether it is shapes, colors, textures, attitude… A painter exaggerates. he makes you look at the subject like he does, by showing this to you with his painting. Over time painters have done many portraits in many different ways.
Some of the portraits that are considered ‘high art’ by some, are not much different than how I would have loved to paint a caricature in art school

because I'm happyyyy...

Jason Seiler

Caricature of fellow artist Jason Seiler

Ellen

Caricatures

A few years back I did this fun job for a communication agency. They asked me to do a few caricatures of them, and place these caricatures into several settings. The were going to be used in a presentation.
For the Bonny and Cleyde version I was asked to use the reference litterally. The other illustrations were based on subjects from the lecture.

Sabrina Starke

John Goodman

Sketch, pencil and photoshop

Angela Lansbury

Quick sketch

Armstrong

It has been a while since I last did a caricature. I had lots of fun exaggerating features once again!

Esperanza Spalding

Digital sketch of Esperanza Spalding.

Pieter Steinz for HP/deTijd

Given the fact that I had to work wirth two very small lowres images as reference, I thing the illustration turned out allright...:-)

Lemmy

20 minute warmup sketch

MAD!

MAD cover illustration. I will post more about the process soon!

Dr. Phil gouache sketch

MAD Sneek peak

Here's a little sneek peak of the cover illustration for the  upcoming MAD I did. The new MAD will be in stores november 24th.

JB caricature sketch

I posted a demonstration vid of this sketch on my tutorial blog LINK