How To Draw Caricatures Kindle Edition

I am cutting my teeth on drawing caricatures, so I am no expert. This book is most helpful to easing me into the simple fundamental steps to practice and then move up the ladder to drawing caricatures. Yesterday I drew one of my wife and I thought I hit it in the bullseye. She smiled and kept looking at it, so I think he liked it too. That's a winner!

What I got the book for was really to look at Lenn Redman's art---having only just "discovered" him. I love cartoonist's art, especially those cartoonists who can really draw, as is the case with most if not all caricaturists. I wasn't disappointed, and he also offers some really good pointers in trying to draw people. The book also features some work by other artists, one of whose work stands out, James Montgomery Flagg, of the Uncle Sam poster fame, as super cool. I think anyone interested in cartooning, cartoonists, and caricature would love this book.

This is the most inspiring and educationally well written drawing art book I have ever laid eyes upon. The techniques and approaches will satisfy every true artist. Illustrations are top notch in terms of variety of styles even if the writer and publishers could have processed photos better. I only assume it is to prevent reuse in teaching. Furthermore, the writing artist's kindness, humanity and goodwill shine like sunrays throughout the book. I cannot recommend this more highly to artists and even historians and as far as Norman Rockwell fans. Non artists and public figures alike who would like to understand caricatures and find higher appreciation in the way artists see need looking no further. Greatly appreciated indeed.

Good overview of caricatures and various facial characteristics. Easy to read and clear illustrations. You can use this book to practice caricatures for a long time!

I bought this after an evening of manic enthusiasm to push myself to develop my drawing skills. That didn't end up panning out, but now I have the book here. So, at least to company, it looks as if I'm some sort of budding artist, which I guess is what I wanted all along.

"Caricature" tends to conjure drawings of people with big, grinning heads and tiny, superfluous bodies you might buy from an artist at a fair or theme park. In all the many books I've read on caricature, I've never felt that any of them really did justice to such a vital aspect of art. Caricature is about bringing out the essential aspects of any subject, not just comically large noses. Lenn Redman's book How to Draw Caricatures does a better job treating caricature as an artistic principle that most every other book out there.Redman lays out a basic workflow; a set of guidelines that help you determine what parts of a subject you should exaggerate (or minimize) and how in a manner that can be applied to more than just ears and noses. Even though he never talks about caricaturing trees or buildings, you certainly could with Redman's method.The book contains a vast number of examples and doesn't stick to one set "style" of how to caricature someone. In some cases he even revisits a particular subject to show a different approach to drawing them. Redman also covers caricaturing bodies, something a lot of books skip completely.One negative mark on Redman's work is that his caricatures of children are rather lacking. Although that's a problem I've seen far worse in some other books, it does show that children is a subject that needs more in depth study in caricature books.Also, owing to the relative age of this book and the author, the book includes a wide variety of caricatures from the 1930's-50's that show the artistic range caricature can take but isn't often explored today.All in all, How to Draw Caricatures isn't the perfect book on caricature, but it's the best I've seen so far.

If you want to draw caricatures, this is the book to get. There’s a lot of book here for the money.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and learned quite a lot from it. I expect I'll go back to it often in the future for reference purposes. The author did an excellent job of teaching in a light-hearted way some fairly serious theory. I finished the book feeling that the book purchase was money well spent and that what I'd learned would stand me in good stead to improve my artwork. Even if you're not particularly interested in caricatures, this book could still be useful for developing your insight into how to really 'see' faces. Highly recommended.

I had hoped for more but it seems this book is another one of those, "Hey! Look! Here's another load of pictures I drew! You can do this too!" with little instruction and those instructions that do exist do not corelate and you find yourself looking over the pages for the boxes that are meant to be there but are not.. and you get frustrated. Of the 160 pages about 15 or 20 are in the direction of How To but it is all done and completed and there are no pointers. This book could have been great with just a little more insight and thought. I think that is what is the most frustrating thing. It seems more like a conversation with people who know how to and can already draw caricatures rather than teach those who do not how to draw them.

If your good at drawing this book might helpAs a beginner it’s a bit advancedLack step by step

I would like to add my enthusiasm for this book. You don't need to be an artist to follow the advice, you just need a pen and some paper and you will amaze yourself with what you can achieve. You will soon be able to get decent results and have a great deal of fun doing it.

Really good book, with many examples and styles.

A nice classic book filled with thoughts and excellent examples of that era. Great for reference, and wonderful details and beautifully drawn helpful diagrams and caricatured people.