I saw Steve Brodner speak, once, and I was surprised to hear him say that his caricatures are not necessarily driven by the subject’s features. Not initially, anyway. He showed a number of examples of, say, George Bush the Younger that started as different shapes tied to Brodner’s concept—triangle, square, rectangle, hourglass—no matter how they started out, they all ended up looking like George Bush in the end. My fellow is no one in particular, he is just an experimental head based upon a wedge instead of the ideal cube. I thought I’d see how much realism I could infuse into such a head. This is another ballpoint doodle, by the way, sketched on a page of my Apica notebook (wonderful things, but more about that in another post).
November 29, 2005
I really love this sketch from [cough] three months ago! What are you, busy? Hope you’re doing well and getting to be creative!