caricature of a friend

This is my first attempt. It's really stiff and not so cartoony. I'm gonna give it another try.

Eager Beaver: Composition Study.

Observations:

- Why this BG is well balanced?

- The big tree contrasts with the small tree behind, also cuts the image leaving the area more focused to the action
¿it's really a very necessary element?

- The ground is curved. It leaves more space in the area of action. (I'm ok?)

- The white tree is curved to the little brown tree. ¿it's there to break with the vertical elements? Also creates a contrast with the little brown tree. It also participates in the frame for the characters.

- Is there any point for the red bush?

- The big white cloud at the right side (with the white curved tree) creates a frame for the character. Is there any reason to be so big and takes up so much space?

- There's a little white cloud curved towards the character. Maybe it's there to guide the eye to the action.

If I had to do this scene, I would have removed the white tree and make the big white cloud smaller, that would leave more space to the action.

Clara Bow Caricature

After this first attempt, I made a comparision to see better the mistakes:



2nd Attempt:

tomorrow I will post the observations.

Contrasts: Irv Spence Mouse

UPDATE: I don't know if the feet and arms are good now. This same thing happened to me months ago with the bulldog caricature exercise .
I think I missed the funny factor here and the nose seems to be bad conected.

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UPDATE:


Better?

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Verbal Analysis:
-BIG head compared with little body.
-Little nose compared with the head.
-Little arms and legs.
- Little ears.

Here's my first attempt. What do you think?

Sterrett and Chuck Studies.

I Don't know what attracts me from Sterrett drawings but I think they have lots of appeal.

Verbal Analysis:
- Little head
- "normal"body
- Huge legs and arms.
- Little eyes and nose
- Big Mustache

His head is not oval, has a more organic and imperfect form, more natural. None of his lines are perfectly straight or perfectly curved, tweens are avoids placing one leg in a different position to the other. He use contrast to make his characters more entertaining, but not in a exaggerated way as Tex Avery for example.

Dog:
- Big Head (organic oval)
- little body (organic oval)
- Long legs (organic cylinders)
- Little paws.

The face has a small part of the skull, leaving a large space on the left. Again, he's using organic and imperfect forms, but you can see that these forms are based on basic shapes such as cylinders and ovals. Also here is a use of contrast but not too exaggerated.







I think these are not the exact frames, but they are close enough.

- Little cranium
- Huge jaw

Chuck Jones used the contrast more exaggerated.

- Between the eye and the back of the skull is a large space. Chuck Jones (as Sterrett) occupies part of the skull to place the face, leaving space at the opposite side.
- All parts follow the skull shape, the same with the wrinkles, eyes and cheeks in the jaw.
- Clear and clean silhouette.

This is the same dog from the same cartoon, but here his skull is longer than the previous frame. Now his skull has the same size of his jaw. Is this another cartoonist?
The rest of his body still important differences:

- Big Head.
- Big Chest
- Little Butt
- Long and Skinny legs
- Big Paws.


This rear view of the skull is very interesting.
- The skull is not a perfect egg, is another form with interesting angles that define the face, neck and front of the head.
- The jaw connects perfectly with the skull following form and all the secondary forms (cheeks, lip, wrinkles and nose) follow the shape of the jaw.
- The eye is tricked, because from this angle we could not see the eye.