Drawing A Caricature of Taylor Swift!

Okay, before I show you how I drew this caricature of Taylor Swift, I'm going to color it just for fun and maybe give you some ideas on how you might consider coloring your caricatures. The first thing I do is put down a layer of light peach on the skin, and then I switch to a yellow color, in this case a cream color, and put that usually around the smile lines, and then I switch to a blush pink, and I put that where there's blush on the face, usually the cheeks and the nose and the ears and a little bit on the chin. If you look very close at every face, the skin will have a base color, and then there will be yellow, and then there will be blush red, and actually there's more colors than that if you really look close, but it all blends together, so you really have to think about it. I first noticed this when looking at the full color caricatures drawn by Jack Davis, who used to work for Mad Magazine. He also used to do covers of Time Magazine and other big magazines many years ago, but you can clearly see in his caricatures that he's purposely putting down yellow and red and a base color, and sometimes there's even some blue if someone has, like they haven't shaven in a while. The next thing I did was put the base color on her hair, and also there are several colors mixed in her hair, and so I'm using like a brown to add depth and complexity, and our teacher once told me that if you just put down one basic color, it can be very boring and basic, but when you mix several colors together, it becomes more dynamic, and it's almost addictive and a dynamic to the viewer's eye when you've got that dynamic complex color rather than super simple, but on this practice drawing, I'm not going for complex and dynamic. I'm just going for a base level of color, and then I want to show you how I drew this. Okay, I'm going to try to do this one as a one-shot caricature. That is, I got one shot to get it right or wrong. We'll find out which happens, and here we go. I want to identify three things or at least three things to exaggerate on this face. I'm thinking this is going to be difficult, but let's find out. Okay, so the bangs for sure, eyes, lips, and I'm thinking, I'm thinking I see a triangle-shaped face, but there's a risk though if I push that too much that it's not going to look like her, so here we go. Okay, sketching is where the magic happens. I'm working out all the problems and trying to incorporate the four elements I want to exaggerate. If I get it right, it's satisfying, and if I get it wrong, then I'm learning something, so I can't lose. That's enough sketching. Okay, here we go with the eyes. Now, I'm noticing her eyes have a very unique shape when she has all her makeup on, so here we go. I'm trying to match that shape. It's going to take some work for me to create that shape. It's sort of like this. Let me draw it out to the side just as a practice, the shape of her eyes, and then you got eyelashes out there. That's my crappy little practice. I messed up a little bit. Oh, well. Eyes. Pupils. I would say the pupils are medium to small with more than one highlight, and then you've got shadow coming from the eyelids, and then adding to that unique shape is her eyebrows, which are going to be sort of part of a system that's like this. Something like that. Sometimes when I'm drawing, I can see the person. It's like in my subconscious, in my imagination, I can see that it's going to work out perfectly. Other times, I'm just putting one feature down at a time, and I have no idea how it's going to turn out. I'm kind of making her eyes a little larger than they are, exaggerating the size because I am exaggerating her eyes. She has the dark makeup on, which overemphasizes her eyes. There are a lot of straight lines in her eye shape, too. What she's doing is emphasizing her eyes with the makeup and her lips, and she's de-emphasizing her nose, and she's doing that with makeup, and you can do that with your drawing, too, but there is a feature of her nose that is very interesting, and I'm going to try to get that right, but I'll show you when I get down to that part. The shadow here. All right, but no sketch. This is tough, so here we go. The nose, which she's de-emphasized, but I'm not going to try to emphasize her nose, but I do want to get it right, and that is, okay, right at the bulb of the nose, there are two corners, and the two corners are a little bumpy, so if I can get the bumpy corners on there. Now, this is a one-shot caricature, so if I mess it up, there's no reason to be upset because I already decided ahead of time I'm only going to try to get this right with one shot. It's just a way of practicing that helps you dimension line. Well, I don't know if I got that or not, but this corner and that corner is a little bumpy. Okay, now there's that divot, and then the lips. I would say her mouth is small because I look at the edges of the mouth, this side and that side, and I measure it up to the eyes, and if it is narrower than the two pupils, then you can call it small, and then you can even exaggerate it by pushing it in super small, but the lips are also sharp and full, so it'd be a narrow, full, sharp lips, which is kind of a mix of two different things. Oh, man. So far, I'm not sure this is actually coming out to look like her, but if I mess up, I'll just laugh about it. Okay, now we're going with the square face shape. I'm not square, but I'm sorry, triangle face shape. There's a jaw on this side, but this marker's running out of ink. Let's try another one. See, if I was to draw it again, I would leave that part of the eyebrow off. That's why they call it practice. Okay, she's got her hair pulled back. There might even be some braids in there. I'm not sure, but I can't see them, so I'm just drawing some shapes to create the illusion that her hair is pulled back. Now, I would say skinny neck, so I don't usually like to draw like chicken necks, but on her, I think it's appropriate. She's also on her chicken neck. She's wearing like a turtleneck. You can always draw some wild hairs. All right, switching to the small side of this marker and try to, I'm going to do some like hair flow lines to try to create the illusion of volume in this shape of her bangs. Oops, messed that up, eh? All right, now more air flow lines on this shape of, back shape of her hair being pulled back. Oh, I see. I messed that one up. I should be coming like this. All right. Oh, well. Okay, a little shadow under her chin, and there's a quick one-shot caricature of Taylor Swift. That's it for this one, folks. Until the next video, I hope you keep getting better at what you love to draw.