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The Mad Art of Caricature! - Tom Richmond
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 14, 2012, 3:38 pm
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I've searched through a lot of different books on the art of
doing celebrity (and average Joe's) character drawings and most
of the books I've come across are poorly concieved and executed.
That is until The Mad Art of Caricature! came out. All the other
books that I looked into, I'd just flip through a few pages and
know that it was amateurish and wouldn't offer me anything
remotely close to tips or tricks or just an insightful way of
working. But with Tom Richmond's
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you a basic understanding of anatomy in a very easy and
informative way that never comes across as being tedious.
When I say he gives you the lowdown on anatomy, he does just
that. He breaks down everything you will need to know from Head
Shapes, Eyes, Mouth, Teeth, Ears and a whole lot more. He even
devotes time on Hands as well. Tom starts the book off by
telling the reader he can't teach you how to draw better and
that is correct. But he goes on to give you tons of valuable
tips and the way he works and why it works. If you follow his
example, you too can increase your skill at doing caricature
drawings.
He also gets into his work method when laying out a page that he
does for MAD magazine. The way he works is definitely different
from what most others will do. But it's understanble why he does
it so that he can have more control of constructing the page for
better placement of characters, word balloons, etc...
I highly recommend this as a Buy for any aspiring or
professional artist that is looking to add this type of art to
their bag of tricks.
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Re: The Mad Art of Caricature! - Tom Richmond
By: Mac Date: July 14, 2012, 5:00 pm
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Did Richmond ever do work for Mad Magazine?
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Re: The Mad Art of Caricature! - Tom Richmond
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 14, 2012, 5:18 pm
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Did Richmond ever do work for Mad Magazine?
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Yes. And he still does. You can go to your local store that has
a magazine rack, grab the latest issue and chances are whatever
TV or movie parody is inside, that's his work.
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Re: The Mad Art of Caricature! - Tom Richmond
By: Mac Date: July 15, 2012, 7:17 am
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That's what I thought. Just the cover shot back memories of my
youth.
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Re: The Mad Art of Caricature! - Tom Richmond
By: Chiprocks1 Date: January 22, 2013, 10:39 pm
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[center]Claire Danes Sketch by Tom Richmond
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It's really cool to see him use the techniques that he talks
about in his book.
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