MINISTRY OF CULTURE NATIONAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION Brazil Número de ISBN do livro The tip of the pencil: 978-85-910035-0-1 Volume Order: 1 Subject: ARTS language: English Edição: 1 Ano da edição: 2010 Local: BRAZIL © THE DRAWINGS FACTORY PUBLISHING HOUSE.
 CNPJ: 05.114.176.0001-98 www.thedrawingsfactory.wordpress.com • Creating and drawings: J. Lima [email protected] • Review: Dulci B. Lima (redaction) [email protected] Marcelo Ferreira (comics) [email protected] Gisela Pizzatto (anime) [email protected]

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I thank first the Great Designer of life, thank you God! And also my wife Dulci, my son Calebinho and all that have encouraged me to this point. Without your participation this work wouldn’t be possible. Thank you, folks!

J. Lima

Presentation Welcome to our drawing course “At the Tip of the Pencil” – CARICATURES. This course is based in my experience as an illustrator at the publisher A Fábrica de Desenhos, and also on various other sources of inspiration. Our aim here is to introduce you to the Caricature universe, showing that your imagination is the only limit! But to put it to the paper you will needed a lot of effort and perseverance. We don’t follow any specific style of drawing. That is to say, we do not teach a drawing style of a specific artist, but instead, stimulate the student to try to find his/her own, using exercises that will help that style to evolve. As my comic book art teacher, Marcelo Ferreira, used to say: “Every artist has at least 5,000 bad drawings to get out of their system before starting to draw really well.” Therefore, have a good practice!

J. Lima • illustrator

Caricature What is a CARICATURE? It is when the artist can highlight someone’s most remarkable facial features in a comic way. Let’s start using a simple face, like Albert Einstein’s. First, draw the face without distortions, make a sketch and simplify it using just a few lines. That will help you to better understand the facial aspect of that person before highlighting the details.

After that, identify the elements you want to bring forth. And do not spare any sketch when doing a caricature, make as many as you think you need to get to the result you want.

It’s done! Let’s see the final result.

Female Caricature For an audience that is much more demanding about their looks, as women are, be careful with exaggerations. Avoid drawing wrinkles or expression signs, draw the nose using soft lines and try to excel on the hair. Let’s see how Marilyn Monroe turns out? As we have seen previously, first draw the face without distortions, make the sketch and simplify it using just a few lines.

After practicing, identify the elements you want to stand out. And I say it again: do not spare any sketch to get the caricature the way you want it.

Final Result:

Children Caricature For children, make a clean caricature and use the same look used in cartoon drawings: round eyes, chubby cheeks and lines a little bit thicker.

The cartoon style caricature can be used for grown ups too, as long as it’s suited for the face you are drawing. Final Result:

Caricature Gallery See more examples:

“Lula” First prize at PUC Campinas Prize.

Will Smit Among the best 30 caricatures at Piracicaba Cartoon Award, 2007.

Ziraldo

Jachie Chan

During my art classes I detected in my students some similar difficulties, which led me try to improve some techniques of sketching. My notes have filled up a notebook in two years! In this book you will find all those notes. I hope this material can help you in the discovery of your own style. But remember: the secret is to practice! J. Lima

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