John's Daffy caricature

Step1) Emotion: what is the character feeling? Shock and fear

2) What part of him is conveying that the most? The top of his head. The cranium. It is stretched very tall

3) subtleties

a) his butt is on a different angle than his head. The negative space forms a V shape

b) his head is tilted down looking at the book (mine is toned down from the original)

c) His whole pose flows into his skull

d) the bend in his beak is subtly angular and near the bottom of his beak-not in the middle

e) His feather tufts are not even lengths and are organic

4) Construction:

as exaggerated as the pose is, it still has construction

the eyes fit on his head and stretch around it in the same perspective

the eyebrows follow the eye shapes and also wrap on the head shape

there is nothing flat or abstract in the drawing

it has a meaning. It tells you what he is feeling and that is the number 1 most important thing you are trying to convey when you copy

you use the tools and principles I teach to subordinate to the emotion of the drawing

if the drawing doesn't make the point, it doesn't mater how principled it is

In a lot of the copies of Kaspar. the copies aren't as clear statements as the originals. They are more vague.