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that happens is then left behind for example one s childhood or any chapter of one s life that one feels they ve left but really you can think of those bygone passages as introductions to that adventure your swept up in the middle of right now too close to to clearly see posted by aaronphilby at 10 15 pm no comments tuesday january 29 2019 i think i ve heard both one story is a long time ago caricaturists use to draw crazy now everybody just draws fast and cute the other story is the opposite there s your traditional caricatures and then there s your new school crazy ones it s strange how the word traditional gets used for caricature the tradition caricatures actually comes from is a tradition where a drawing is done for the newspaper in order to smear some politician or public figure of course there are also live caricature traditions too but live caricatures haven t been around all that long when i think of live caricature traditions i think of the best of dino and tom richmond but that s just me me and growing up in a small town in ohio and going to cedar point live caricatures may have been around for a while but everybody seeing everybody else s live caricatures is only as old as the internet or the widespread use thereof the early 2000s now that s young twenty years editorial or newspaper caricatures has built into it an element of mass exposure mass exposure is new for live caricatures because the artform doesn t work that way the more public any given live caricature of some person becomes the more it wades into a different role the role of the editorial caricature a lso the more of a public figure the subject is editorial caricature is a public drawing of a public figure posted by aaronphilby at 11 50 am no comments saturday march 10 2018 live caricatures as hanbok there s an appeal to caricatures that s a bit like trying on hanbok in korea the old tradition clothes is called hanbok you can look it up or you can just imagine that it s very ornate and fancy and cumbersome and asian looking you know what old traditional chinese garb looks like maybe it s what you just think of as chinese garb period because you re racist but i m telling you now people in china don t dress like that anymore but tourists and more often in korea young koreans who are on vacation might go to a place where they can rent the traditional garb and they ll walk around and take pictures and it s a big hoot there is some appeal to live caricatures that is very similar in a way i think as professional caricature artists we can get divorced from this appeal but the appeal goes like this people read magazines or at least they use to and in the magazine you see these drawings that are there to make fun of what some famous person looks like some face that s always in the public eye bombarding everybody with their weird old face more or less because to be on a tv show and communicate your views and your agendas you need to have your face there but as a byproduct of your face being there we all have to see it and the caricature in the magazine points out the elephant in the room stuff about your face and that sort of builds a trust between the reader and the voice of the magazine a trust that everything is being accounted for and a trust that the magazine has a sense of humor despite all this talkity talk their doing but caricature has a home in that format and is in part no doubt a product of that format then someone who reads those magazines and sees those drawings and then goes to the theme park can get this simulation of what their caricature might look like were they famous were they in the public eye so i m just addressing one portion of the appeal and i can t say how big or small that portion might be i m sure it s not all of it but a live caricature artist doesn t want to think of himself or herself or they self as a simulator of actual caricatures that is to say that a theme park caricature can t be a caricature in that exact same sense that a magazine caricature is a caricature magazine caricatures deal with public figures and only have to distinguish the subject out from among all the other public figures in order to signify the person whose face is being addressed or made fun of from among what group is the live caricature customer being singled out is it all people is it the person s friends and family the answer s not as obvious as it is with magazine caricatures if you come across a caricature in a magazine and feel it looks more like a friend of yours than it does bob dole as long as it looks more like bob dole than some other famous person you can be reasonably sure that it s bob dole s face that s being commented on or made fun of and not your friend s posted by aaronphilby at 4 19 am no comments wednesday january 31 2018 truth makes us write art lets us finish drawing caricatures live with the possibility of rejection looming can feel like playing operation or it might be a bit more like a jack in the box where it s a little more out of your control one of those kind of games or like russian roulette played until somebody loses but maybe its only like that if you think about it like that if you worry about it if you allow yourself to get outside of the moment if the customers become the customers rather than this specific person when people say something in response to the drawing that to them might be the most natural and spontaneous thing but to us is things that customers say every once in a while a firey little hot button it turns this person you just met into a type of situation i think for me writing is not about writing per se but about whatever thing i m trying to convey but then it is the idea of writing rather writing per se that allows me to call it finished to feel justified in posting it somewhere and i considered phrasing this more so as to frame what i feel writing is truly about in the grander sense or for everyone i was going to leave out the for me part and it would then have been a little bolder and saying for me can come off a little grovely but i was intending more to talk about my approach and i m fairly new to writing and i should say writing my thoughts and showing them because writing sounds like there s some value to writing or reading someone s writing beyond the meaning being conveyed but currently i dont think there is and if i should ever get to the point where i do i suspect that will be the end of my writing being worth reading truth makes us write art lets us finish posted by aaronphilby at 11 58 pm no comments what is it exactly i been thinkin about a way of framing it might be what exactly to make of the massive tsunami of favor for what caricaturists but i m using the term caricaturists colloquially because as you will soon see in this writing i m dealing with the caricaturist as a kind of archetype would call cuticatures before i wrote about the pop portrait concept i m not sure if i called it that i ll have to go back and look at what ive posted but ive thought about caricatures being like the fuel for portraits as in the caricaturists get in there and get dirty because it s who they are and it s what they gotta do and they cant handle the golf clap reactions and the portrait artists are the diplomats because that s who they are and what they do and they use the parts forged by the caricaturist and harmonize them but recently i ve been thinking about this it sprung forth from this kernel of imagining that portrait artists inhabit the space of their artform as residents but caricaturists come to it temporarily like little wild electrons drawn in by the gravity of there being something really interesting going on and then they draw their caricatures and they are gone they are passing through i felt that picture of it i m able to see myself as the caricaturist and i m also able to see myself as the portrait artist this isn t about classifying people it s about trying to think about and talk about caricatures and portraits as honestly as i can from my little window i m interested in how it connects to everything else as i m writing now i m starting to feel a little guarded i m not sure if that s for better or worse but most of what i ve posted on my blog has been written before hand without consideration as to whether i would post it but now that i ve posted some i m beginning to feel the pull toward that diplomatic showmanship mentality but truth be told any time i ve written anything there s always been some feeling of it being for something besides my own personal record so i anticipate the mistake of over correcting too far in the opposite direction and i avoid it maybe we can see four archetypes the caricaturist the portraitist the caricature customer and the portrait customer and caricaturists and their customers are fearless and they re right up in each others faces and then the portrait artists and their similarly guarded and cautious customers have the caricaturist and the caricaturist s customer between them as a buffer portraits and caricatures are made up of all these parts parts that i will call shapes but the shapes aren t necessarily divided up in the way that most people divide faces up because we re not dealing with the typical biological sense functions of features we re talking about the function of likeness which acts as kind of a key and that s the function and that s what the artist is sensitive to but shapes are traditionally thought of as these linear figures something akin to geometric shapes a line that goes for a little trip and eventually ends up back at the point from where it started or something along those lines pun intended i suppose that old traditional concept of shape is tied in with writing and linear thinking and it s a matter of everyone being on the same page pun intended but now there re all kinds of icons out there now and it s all part of a visual language and the color carries meaning and the texture carries meaning shape as far as likeness is concerned is synonymous with aspect posted by aaronphilby at 11 25 pm no comments friday december 29 2017 look like is an interesting couple of words every caricature artist knows that a caricature has to look like the people but more and more these days i m getting a sense of some customers and passers by having a different conception of look like than i do just yesterday a coworker of mine was doing a really fun great caricature which was really funny and had a great likeness and there was this lady who saw it and really laughed and enjoyed it and was just really taken by it i mean to say it was a very positive caricature response and one of the things she said was that it doesn t look like them or something very much along those lines and very emphatic but we look at it as a total failure if the drawing doesn t look like the subject particularly to us and we also hope the customer or family or friends will see the likeness but could some customers conceive of likeness differently so in this scenario the drawing manages to be funny and i would say as it relates to the subject to give the scenario the full benefit of the doubt but it doesn t look like them so the only way it can be funny is for it to look like them according to our definition and then the doesn t look like them of their definition speaks to all the distortions and exaggerations and which is which doesn t matter to them because the point is that the drawing of these people is genuinely funny in its relationship to the subject and doesn t look like them and that s in their words i think it is an odd way of looking at it but i can make sense of it if i imagine a view of likeness where likeness and humor are thought to be mutually exclusive or truth and humor it s not so far fetched it runs contrary to the it s funny because it s true mantra though but surely that phrase only exists because at one point it really meant something and went against common knowledge maybe all i m really saying is that the concept of it s funny because it s true which is such a given in the circles that i run may not have been canonized just yet by all of human society ala gravity posted by aaronphilby at 12 48 am no comments monday december 25 2017 to you all this is completely new to me it s like groundhogs day the same things over and over and over all except for one thing which is that your face is like no other face in the world your expressions everything about it is completely new so then i can react to the essence of what exactly is bizarre about it or i can draw you so that i hope you might not be offended i can throw a thousand tiny little tricks at you that i ve built up from living in this groundhog day repetitious world or i can throw myself at this tiny bizarre kernel at the center of the whole charade to draw the shape that is unique to you and only you even though i cant have seen it and so can t have practiced it before and it is hard to even see it in a way because you can t look for it actively because to look for something you have to know what you re looking for but it s easy to see if you re not looking because its gonna be this big strange glaring anomaly this aspect of your face which is so odd in fact that it s the very shape my mind saves the face in its memory under in order to distinguish it from among all the others posted by aaronphilby at 12 32 am no comments tuesday december 5 2017 no one in this world can show what one particular person looks like but a caricature artist someone whose sight hasn t been impaired by the desire to show and whose ability to show hasn t been overrun by an excess of clarity but it takes a person to see a person a camera can t do it but a person holding a camera can and one who can see and has the desire to show will find the lighting and the angle and the moment which distills what they see when they see a person into something that can be shown and kept and held and a caricature artist seeing the photo can boil it down further and enhance it just as they can with anything with a recognition of the shapes and knowledge of the meaning behind them posted by aaronphilby at 10 33 pm no comments wednesday october 25 2017 shape is a fundamental element i keep coming back to this unit a shape is an aspect an aspect of a given face an aspect of a given drawing an aspect of a given anything and if a given face has some particular set of aspects and a drawing has that same set of aspects than the two will match as in the whole is equal to the sum of its parts there will be in the drawing a perfect likeness to the face so it s as simple as that and it starts here but to get a perfect likeness is an impossible or nonsensical task until you add another element to the mix and what is that element well i think it s actually a matter of language but whatever it is it functions to limit the number of aspects so you don t have to draw and examine forever i d always thought about there being two types 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