Article · tomrichmond.com
How to Draw Caricatures: The 5 Shapes
By Tom Richmond
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2008
About this lesson
MAD Magazine caricaturist Tom Richmond breaks the human face into five basic shapes and explains how varying their size, distance and angle relative to each other creates caricature likeness, rather than exaggerating individual features in isolation.
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