Sketchdump - Caricatures (set 1)

This series of caricatures actually started with the last character on this piece. That character, Jack Bottom, actually started life as a warm-up doodle to get me into a drawing frame of mind and ended up as an NPC in the game because he looked kind of like a "helpful" character one of the players came up with for story stuff.

The gist of this series of caricatures is that, in order to broaden my facial-drawing skills and get some variety into the faces I draw, I start with two or three random base shapes and try to turn that into a person. It's a pretty good exercise, all in all, and I like (most of) the results.

I tried to balance out guys and girls with this exercise, though for the most part I went with the gender each set of shapes "felt" like to me. Some were deliberately skewed toward a particular gender, most notably the second-to-last figure on the bottom row. That's a woman (kind of a grandma character), though my husband thought it was a guy. Whatever.

The first guy on the top row reminds me of a gorilla, and the third in the same row looks like he's trying to be Wreck-It Ralph. The fourth in on the bottom row is my least favorite; her large eyes didn't work out quite the way I planned, so she just looks bug-eyed.