have been working on a portrait of a friend’s daughter as a modigliani painting. finding it very difficult since modigliani’s style is to elongate the persons features. he painted his girlfriend, jeanne hebuterne often, but the faces he painted doesn’t even look like her. my subject has a rounder face. i need to make the portrait somehow look like her. i tried a bunch of tests using photoshop, distorting a photo of her – squeezing and elongating her face. that worked pretty well, but it can’t just be pasted into the other painting. when i simplify the features into lines, it just doesn’t look like her. i decided i needed to understand how caricatures worked. i went onto the internet, which continues to amaze me. i found a fantastic tutorial on caricatures and have spent all morning reading that. check it out:
http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2008/02/14/how-to-draw-caricatures-1-the-5-shapes/ and then
http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/category/tutorials/
i think this will help me.
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