I’ve been getting quite a few emails asking what the easiest way to get started drawing caricatures?  Luckily its not as hard as it may initially seem.  Even though professional caricature artists can spend five, ten or even twenty years developing and honing their skills, I’m going to give you the nuts and bolts of getting started right now.  Drawing caricatures isn’t that different than many other things in life in that if you take a complex thing and begin to break it down into its basic elements, it suddenly becomes manageable and easy to understand.  Let me show you a...

  Standard and Caricature Proportions One thing that you will need to consider in your caricature drawings is the proportions of your caricature’s head. The above image shows the breakdown of a ‘standard’ male head on the left and a caricatured head on the right.  Don’t worry if you are not totally familiar with standard human head proportions… give yourself a little test here:     Can you spot the differences between the two heads without having them pointed out for you?  Well for starters obviously one head looks a lot more cartoony, but that is a style difference....

A lot of people have emailed and asked if this course on drawing caricatures will be too hard for them, and my answer has always been that anyone can learn this because I’m going to provide you with everything that you need to draw good looking caricatures…  …but the more I thought about these questions I began to realize that there was a bigger problem that needed attention.   Have you ever looked at someone else’s drawing and thought that they must be so lucky to have been born with such a natural artistic ability?  I mean, it doesn’t seem fair that art comes...

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You’re going to want to pay close attention here as getting a likeness between what’s on the page and the person you are drawing is often a tricky problem that can stop you from getting the success with your drawings that you are looking for. The head is broken up into 5 basic components and each and every one of them is important.  The parts of the head that you need to focus on and pay attention to are:  The nose, the eyes, the mouth, the hair and the general shape of the head.  Notice that I didn’t include ears in this list, and to be sure there are some wacky looking ears out there,...

Hot off the Presses - the first Caricature Secrets Course! This course has been a long time coming – I’ve been working on it for over a year now, and it’s finally almost time to put it in  your hands on Monday at 6pm Pacific time. Limited Availability.

You probably never heard someone say to you that you’re making life hard on yourself with the way that you’re drawing, but there is actually a lot of truth in that statement and it applies to so many people that are struggling with drawing the face. So what can you do about that? The answer is that you can do things smarter and take the easy way by simplifying the features that you want to draw. This applies to absolutely everything involved with the face: eyes, nose, ears, hair, mouth it’s all the same — there is an easier way to draw all of these. This way of thinking...

A lot of you have been commenting and sending me e-mails asking what the price of the course is going to be and while I can tell you that is has an unbeatable price with more value packed into it than anything else you’ve ever seen online (or offline for that matter!) I’m going to make you wait one more day and see the final price on the sales page with all the info when the course officially goes live at 6PM Pacific tomorrow.  Sorry – I just don’t want to ruin the surprise! I will however tell you a bit more about what’s included in the course because there is one special...

Hi all, Just a quick note that you can get your very own copy of the Caricature Secrets course right now.  I’ve been taking orders for a few hours now, and while it is selling fast as I write this there is still an opportunity to be one of the first 100 people to get the course and get the opportunity to get free coaching from me. Click Here to Order Caricature Secrets It’s been a hectic last few days, and I’m going to take this opportunity to get to bed before midnight! Speak soon! Mitch

Caricature Secrets has been taken off the market, and I just want to give a quick update to anyone who ordered the course. When I started this whole thing I was pretty worried about how much extra work this whole sale process would be.  I’ve never created any kind of CD course for purchase before, and there has been some issues getting the people the course as quickly as possible.  I had planned for the course to take up to 3 weeks to be delivered, so in most cases we should hit that mark, but there are a few people overseas I know who are going to have to wait an extra week. I was absolutely...

After one year of keeping Caricature secrets on the shelf, it’s back online and available right now. Click HERE to get your copy! You should be aware however that I’m in the process of converting this over to be viewable for the web, and the Home study version of the course that arrives in the mail will be taken off the shelf again, so if you want to get the actual physical course that you can hold in your hands and run on your home computer get your copy quick! By the end of the month the digital version should be ready and everyone that has the physical product will also get full...