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g 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 of drawing one from observation and one from the imagination but i think i see it all as observation there s the part of our mind that we don t have immediate access to but we do have some kind of access to it and so it s the same as drawing from observation i don t have access to what a horse looks like but i do have some kind of access to it when i look at it i can find some information about what a horse looks like that i didn t have immediate access to all i really mean to say is that the important element about the external that we draw observationally this internal semi or subconscious part of us also shares and if i am to do work that i myself find interesting it would need to have something present within it some stimuli that i m not able to freely conjure with my conscious mind or indeed why wouldn t i posted by aaronphilby at 9 45 pm no comments tuesday october 17 2017 opposicatures are opposicatures possible well it would just be a drawing of a completely different person who may be out there somewhere hypothetically something about opposicatures doesnt sit with me right now im thinking about maybe its the idea that perhaps likeness is what links a caricature to its subject matter i think one of the key elements that sets caricatures and maybe portraits too but i would say especially caricatures apart from other artforms is the link between the drawing and the subject matter also with jazz theres a thing called standards which means there s a limited number of familiar songs and then those songs are covered every which way by different artists and even by the same artists in different performances but the set of standards is fairly limited to keep that link between the version of the song being performed in that moment and the standard it s referencing but the point im getting at is that i think the link is important and how that link is established is important and i suspect that likeness is a big part of the link and if the drawing looks a hundered times more like larry bird than it does steve urkle and its hillarious in this regard as all caricatures should be than how is it linked to steve urkle because i say it is and with jazz standards too it isnt just linked in nomenclature either its linked because people have an affinity for particular songs and that s why the songs are covered by the jazz musicians another thing is i think that caricatures ought to hit you without having to think about it i think ideally you re doing things that seem like they ought not to work but then they do and what i mean by work is i mean hit you feel like the person ideally without thinking about it and i think the ideal realm is the realm we have to opperate in when were defining things but an opposicature you d have to think about it would be too cerebral if even cerebral caricatures work because our mind uses the function of likeness to recognize people without even thinking about it our mind has no need and no interest to recognize the opposite of what people look like if such a thing can even be rightly conceived of for me what distinguishes one face from another is not the proportions of whatever dimensions but rather the hodge podge of shapes that make up the face again ideally if we talk about big nose versus small nose i still wonder what kind of nose and wouldnt the opposite of a very big nose be no nose at all or would it be a very very small nose but i m certainly picking no pun intended something apart which is at it s core about humor an opposicature is possible you can just say who it s suppose to be and use your sense of humor to find the funny possibilities so i guess thats my final answer but the idea of opposicatures got my brain spinning a little bit and we had a good little run there could it be an issue that most art has caricature and subject matter built into it and caricatures the artform points to a peice and then claims that the subject matter is out there or it claims that you or someone you love is the subject matter could this be a problem hmm so then if a caricature is to be art or to put it differently if it is to be worth while it seems like it would need to address two subject matters one being the likeness of the individual and the other being whatever else i guess something more universal speaking of that i was thinking about how live caricatures are different from stand up comedy in certain ways one of the big ones that has recently come to mind is that a stand up comedian s subject matter is different from a live caricature artist s a stand up comic s subject matter is the human experience which we all share equally a live caricature artist s subject matter is the likeness of this individual which these people the customer s and their friends and stuff may be more intimately connected with and then as i stated above i guess it would need another subject matter in addition posted by aaronphilby at 11 25 pm no comments saturday september 23 2017 let me tell you a story a rookie first year caricature artist one day feeling frustrated with his customers and with his abilities left his stand and traveled to a faraway land to meet with an old caricature master in hopes that he could obtain some wisdom which he could then apply to his craft in order to become a better caricature artist when he finally pushed through the crowds of the busy farmers market in the faraway city he found the old man drawing and his model was the plainest most impossible face the rookie caricaturist had ever seen but when the old master finished in a few quick moments the drawing on his board was an astonishing sight to behold and when he tore off the drawing and showed the customer they and their family watching and all the crowd around them burst into laughter there were a few customers after that all with similar reactions and the rookie waited around until finally he had a moment to seek the council of the old master and when he did he beseeched him master i am nought but a first year rookie all my life i have pursued art and i have spent all my money and four years of my life at art school but now i have tasted of caricatures and i want nothing but to draw people and show them their faces and make them laugh i seek from you guidance any helpful word you might have to offer the old master scratched his beard and thought for a moment finally he said let me tell you a story when i was a first year artist like yourself i went about it pretty much like everybody does except for one thing when i wasn t drawing caricatures i spent every waking second learning to paint with oils and after many years finally i got to a point where i d mastered oils and after i d mastered oils i went and took all the oil paints and brushes and i shoved it all up my arse and then i moved on to pastels by day i drew cari...