How to Draw Caricatures
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Lenn Redman
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- File Type: PDF
- File Size: 37.3 MB
- Book Language: English
- Total Page Count: 298
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How to Draw Caricatures: An Instructional Art Book
How to Draw Caricatures is a digital PDF guide by Lenn Redman. Written, illustrated, and designed by Redman, it introduces the principles and practice of caricature drawing.
This digital format is suitable for artists, art students, and people exploring caricature as a hobby. Instant download access is available after purchase.
The book presents practical instruction alongside examples and subjects for study, from facial features and proportions to bodies, clothing, styles, and symbolic caricatures.
Book Overview
Lenn Redman created this instructional art book for professional artists, art students, and readers with an interest in learning how to draw caricatures for enjoyment. The contents begin with tools, definitions, observation, and the principle of relativity.
Later sections address facial and cranial dimensions, hair, comic faces, surrounding elements, three-dimensional form, facial asymmetry, drawing from life, and drawing from photographs. The book also considers children, body proportions, clothing, sketching, impressionism, abstract art, symbolic caricatures, and caricature identifications.
Published in connection with McGraw-Hill eBooks, this edition carries a 1984 copyright by Lenn Redman and includes 298 pages.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- Tools of the trade and an introduction to caricature.
- Ways to observe facial features and understand relationships between parts of the face.
- Facial and cranial dimensions, hair, comic faces, and three-dimensional form.
- Approaches to asymmetry, drawing from life, and drawing from photographs.
- Caricaturing bodies, clothing, children, and big-head, small-body proportions.
- Experimenting with impressionism, abstract art, styles, techniques, and symbolic caricatures.
- A sampling of success, a poem titled “What Am I?”, and an appendix of caricature identifications.
Why This Book Matters
How to Draw Caricatures addresses a specialized area of drawing instruction for which Redman describes a longstanding need. Its intended audience extends beyond aspiring cartoonists to include artists, students, and people who simply want to learn the form for fun.
The book also reflects Redman’s teaching experience, including work with adult students from varied backgrounds. Its structured contents make caricature a subject for study through observation, practice, photography, and experimentation with styles.
Book Details
| Author | Lenn Redman |
|---|---|
| Title | How to Draw Caricatures |
| Written, illustrated, and designed by | Lenn Redman |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill |
| Copyright | © 1984 by Lenn Redman |
| ISBN | 978-0-07-181276-4 |
| MHID | 0-07-181276-8 |
| Print ISBN | 978-0-80-925685-3 |
| Print MHID | 0-80-925685-1 |
| Format | |
| File Type | |
| File Size | 37.3 MB |
| File Size Bytes | 39117984 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 298 |
Device Compatibility
This is a digital download, and no physical book will be shipped. Access is available after purchase.
The PDF works with appropriate Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, mobile devices, and compatible reading apps. Availability of specific features may depend on the device or application.
FAQ
When can I access the book?
Access to the digital download is available after purchase, with instant download delivery.
Will I receive a physical copy?
No. This product is a digital PDF download, so there is no physical shipping.
What devices can open the file?
The PDF can be used with appropriate Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, mobile devices, and reading apps.
Download How to Draw Caricatures for focused study of caricature drawing and its related techniques.
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