The Practical Guide to Drawing Caricatures: [Artist's Workbook]

by Peter Gray

Overview

Comic and accessible, with great scope for invention, caricatures are a joy to draw. In this book, author and illustrator Peter Gray works through the process of achieving a likeness and distorting it in imaginative ways for maximum effect. Tailored step-by-step exercises help aspiring caricaturists to build up their skills, and handy hints will keep them in the know about techniques and materials.

The Artist's Workbooks are practical guides for artists interested in getting to grips with a particular subject.

Other books in the series include:

. Drawing Animals
. Drawing Figures
. Drawing Landscapes
. Drawing Manga
. Drawing Portraits
. Drawing Still Life
. Drawing Techniques

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782129288
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing
Publication date:	01/06/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Peter Gray is long established as an illustrator of books, magazines and newspapers with occasional forays into such fields as film storyboards and costume design, advertising and animation projects. Peter is also the author of many books for adults and children, which have been published in many languages all around the world.Since graduating from Loughborough College of Art and Design with a specialist degree in illustration, Peter Gray has contributed illustrations to many books, of wide-ranging subject matter, from classic fiction to educational and historical, for UK publishers Penguin Longman and Oxford University Press and Ernst Klett in Germany. Outside book publishing, Peter has worked on storyboards and costume design for the film industry, most recently on Oliver Stone's blockbuster Alexander, and regularly contributes illustrations to national newspapers (Financial Times, Sunday Times) and magazines (The Spectator, Readers' Digest).