Discover the fast, fun art of drawing comic portraits! Face Off shows you how to draw life like never before. Caricaturist Harold Hamernik shares the secrets to capturing the sillier side of friends, family, celebrities, strangers—any face that crosses your path. 40 step-by-step demonstrations show you how to sketch whimsical and expressive likenesses while developing your own quick, loose, improvisational style. You'll get expert instruction on: • Drawing eyes, noses, mouths and other features. • Creating portraits in front, three-quarter and profile views. • Adding color to your caricatures, either by hand or via computer—instruction you won't find in any other book! • Tips for making a likeness more masculine (skip the eyelashes), more feminine (lengthen the neck), younger, older, sexier, goofier—all while making a portrait your subject will love. • How to draw hair as two simple lines, why drawing the parts of a face in the same order every time can cut minutes off your work, and tons of other handy tricks of the craft! Practice the simple techniques in this book, then start drawing! It's the most fun you can have with paper, pencils and markers!

Tracing the history of caricature from its ancient origins to the modern age, this fascinating study offers a unique perspective on the art of satire and humor. With countless examples and insightful commentary, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of art and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Includes hundreds of step-by-step instructions and examples of caricatured subjects that show the art in action.

Excerpt from An Historical Sketch of the Art of Caricaturing: With Graphic Illustrations In treating on the subject, the author has endeavoured to be as brief as pos sible, and hopes he has succeeded in rendering it as entertaining as brief. The History of caricaturing, although even intended to be general, would naturally narrow into that of English Caricatures; for the obvious reason, that in no other country has the art met with equal encouragement, because no other portion of the globe enjoys equal freedom. The reader will therefore perceive that little has been advanced on foreign satires of this nature. In describing the Caricatures chronologically, he enables the reader to form a judgment of his own as to the im provement of the art in wit and humour; and he would have appropriated the characters, had the task been less invidious and dangerous; besides, he did not think himself justified in turning a species of allegory into libels, supported only by conjecture. Numbers of others might have been added; but he trusts enough is done to make the subject connected and regular. In concluding, he begs leave to make known his obligations to the Honourable the Trustees of the British Museum, who by their special permission granted the author to make drawings from Saxon and other antient Manuscripts, the Missals of Richard II. And Queen Mary, and from the King's Collection of Pamphlets; nor should he do justice to his feelings, did he not thus-publicly thank Joseph Planta, Esq. Principal Librarian, for the facilities afforded him on that occasion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Guides the reader through the stages of creating a successful caricature.

A counter-intuitive history of literary caricature, exploring how caricature helped make the realist novel in the Romantic period.