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Thursday, July 21, 2005

My own head

Today at work, my buddies Luke and Fred and I got into a conversation about caricaturing and we all got inspired to draw some funny pictures! We all ran and hid in our cubicles to draw, and I came up with these silly attempts at a self-portrait. It's really hard to draw yourself! I think almost everyone has a tough time with it.
Then we came up with a wonderful new game...first one of us would draw a caricature, then the next person would redraw it and attempt to make it funnier and more like the actual person. Then they'd pass it off again...in theory, this is a GREAT way to draw! Just keep drawing the same thing over and over until you get it right. Usually when I try this by myself though, the drawing comes out more bland with each new try. I suppose the easy thing to do would just have Fred redraw all my drawings for me and fix them, ha! But I guess I ought to learn how to fix my own drawings by myself.
Anyhow, I did a funny drawing of Fred (see my link, Cartoons and Caricatures!), and he did a funny drawing of me. Here it is, the start of our new caricature game!
So when I was done laughing at this picture, I took it and drew it over again and made some changes...like making my nose a little more snubby...and here's what happened:
So then Fred took that one back, and did one more, which ended up being the funniest drawing and probably the most like me.
We also did the same thing with a retarded caricature I did of Fred...maybe he'll post the chain of Fred's in his blog sometime (hint, hint)!
Well, that's really it for the day. I didn't learn anything new about drawing today during my experiments, except that it's smart to befriend other artists who can make your drawings look better. Thanks Fred!! Everyone write down today's lesson!
Here's one last set of drawings for today-a picture of me and my favorite person, Luke!

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