Friday, November 11, 2011

Caricature Tutorials

Here's some links to some of the better tutorials on caricature out there. Feel free to comment and add your own:


From Tom Richmond's blog. This is the MOTHER of all caricature drawing tutorial sites. Browse around, you'll find it MOST helpful. These are just a few posts that I've found helpful:

www.tomrichmond.com/.../how-to-draw-caricatures-1-the-5-shapes
http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=1799
http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=181

Joe Bluhm has some excellent video tutorials. His voiceover is interesting and informative
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uiqvd__4u0&feature=related

Illustrator Court Jones' PDF caricature tutorial:
http://www.courtjones.com/images/Downloads/CourtJonesTutorial.pdf

There are a LOT of you tube tutorials out there, and not all are all that great. These are  some of the better ones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL7alYFNKsw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRiJ1ZW8EH4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv3NTK8_0ts&feature=related


Tutorials you can buy by experts

Jason Seiler (most excellent, I own my own copy and I'm a pro!)
http://jasonseilerdepot.blogspot.com/2009/06/sketching-with-jason-seiler-dvd.html

Jim VanDerKyl
http://www.sketchme.com/