Crazy Characters
SPEND AN HOUR ON A PARK BENCH and watch the passing parade with a sketchbook. Bespectacled computer nerds, bleached blondes teetering on stiletto heels, red-faced brats, and business-suited blimps will quickly fill your pages. By emphasizing the characteristics your fellow humans display, you’ll find that you have a wealth of satiric material to work with. Exaggeration and simplification are the keys. A receding hairline becomes a shiny dome, dreamy eyes are as large as saucers, and a smattering of freckles becomes five or six polka dots.
FOCUS ON FACES Sometimes less is more. All three of these expressive faces have been stripped ...
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