Face Off: How to Draw Amazing Caricatures & Comic Portraits

by Harry Hamernik

Discover the fast, fun art of drawing comic portraits!Face Off shows you how to draw life like never before. Caricaturist Harold Hamernik shares the secrets to capturing the sillier side of friends, family, celebrities, strangers-any face that crosses your path.40 step-by-step demonstrations show you how to sketch whimsical and expressive likenesses while developing your own quick, loose, improvisational style. You'll get expert instruction    • Drawing eyes, noses, mouths and other features.   • Creating portraits in front, three-quarter and profile views.   • Adding color to your caricatures, either by hand or via computer-instruction you won't find in any other book!   • Tips for making a likeness more masculine (skip the eyelashes), more feminine (lengthen the neck), younger, older, sexier, goofier-all while making a portrait your subject will love.   • How to draw hair as two simple lines, why drawing the parts of a face in the same order every time can cut minutes off your work, and tons of other handy tricks of the craft!Practice the simple techniques in this book, then start drawing! It's the most fun you can have with paper, pencils and markers!

Genres: Art, Drawing, Nonfiction

130 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Olie Francis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was incredible. Exactly what I was looking for! It takes you through the process step by step and the author clearly knows what he’s talking about. I wish I would have read this book a long time ago. The tips in this book are going to apply to all areas of art, not just caricatures!

[Muhamed · Rating 5 out of 5]

Harry is a great teacher

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

His notion of anchor and pivot points is useful, but otherwise there is very little here. Book will teach you to draw how he draws, but that’s about it.

[Deedra Hanekamp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to follow

Good guide for beginners! It helped me get the basic concepts behind caricature drawing. It is easy to follow and has helpful photos to showing transition from subjects to drawings.

[Mohammed Essam · Rating 3 out of 5]

من أسهل و أحلى الكتب الى بتأخد بأيدك و قلمك الرصاص و تخليك تقدر ترسم أى وش أنت عايز ترسمه سهل حتى للعمرهم ما رسموا قبل كدا

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Cute. But this is a "do as I do" book. This is how the author makes it. He doesn't even bother to make it clear. A waste of paper.

[Brooklyn Kavlie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good for a beginer. Defiantly loved this, really helped me start out with this type of drawings. Could have had more info in there though.