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Digital Caricatures

Price: add $30 to price of digital line drawings.


DIGITAL CARICATURE

DIGITAL LINE DRAWING

Above: A comparison of a digital caricature and a digital line drawing of the same person. This was drawn for a Twin Cities realtor, Kelly Johnson, who had me develop this representation for his new "Duplex Professor" campaign. Drawn from the photo to the right.

While you can easily see the dramatic difference between the two different kinds of treatments, there is still a quite distinct cartoonish or comic book-like quality to the more realistic digital line drawing above, right.

Link to Kelly Johnson's website.

About Digital Caricatures.
Media: Pencil prelim sketches scanned and redrawn with pressure-sensitive drawing tablet, digital vector and paint programs,
emailed to you as pdf files.


Aesthetically, these are like what I did for 35 years in political cartoons while working for various newspapers like Minneapolis City Pages, the Madison (Wisconsin) Press Connection and the Minnesota Daily, and on KMSP-TV, the local FOX television affiliate's morning news show. They are funny but are drawn with a degree of class and finesse, not the cheesy variety of folk or commercial style "caricatures" drawn by the amateurs usually recruited to draw at shopping malls, amusement parks and even state fair concessions.
Technically, these involve several steps: first, I draw a rough sketch from the photos supplied by you. Then I refine the sketches to arrive at the best result. Next, I scan the final sketch. I take that into a vector drawing program and carefully draw a digital versionfrom it which pays close attention to line quality. The line quality is highly refined, very clean and thoughtfully varied. This can be done in black and white or the additional step of adding color can be undertaken.


 

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