Caricature 101 - How to Exaggerate

Learn what to EXAGGERATE when drawing caricatures! Get more at proko.com/caric...!
Drawing caricatures isn’t just about drawing huge heads and noses. It’s about figuring out what to exaggerate! In this lesson Court teaches you the basic concept of caricature drawing. He’ll go through the common misconceptions behind the art form and how you can start practicing it.
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Course Description
This free drawing lesson is a sample of the Art of Caricature course offered on Proko.com. The premium section has more demonstrations and extended lessons on caricature drawing. The full version for this lesson includes more drawing demonstrations and an entire extra lesson on the history of caricature. Get the course at www.proko.com/c....
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CREDITS:
Artist | Instructor - Court Jones (www.courtjones.com)
Producer - Stan Prokopenko (www.stanprokope...)
Script - Court Jones, Stan Prokopenko
Production Assistance - Sean Ramsey (www.peoplewhodr...), James O’Shea (www.jfoshea.blo...)
Editing - Dzmitry Tsydzik (white-agency.com), Sean Ramsey, Stan Prokopenko
Music Used with Permission
Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra
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[@perkypokey]

The thing that I love about Caricatures, is that no matter how exaggerated the features are, the faces are immediately recognizable.

[@natesingsotherthings7024]

That’s the beauty of caricature

[@afroxermusic9898]

I learned caricature by drawing my teachers during Their class.

[@98pinkdog]

Lol

[@Reese_md]

Same with me accept I stare at my classmates and Draw them

[@sri-6374]

Omg same

[@annebos4634]

I suppose you were never bored!

[@thegood_uchiha6787]

Lmao

[@navymiguelito]

Wow, your caricatures are so amazing! Now that I'm retired and have so much time on my hands, I'm browsing through KZbin to see incredible artists sharing their skills. And maybe I can be inspired enough to pick up a paintbrush and create my own works.

[@ProkoTV]

We hope you do! Art can be incredibly fulfilling. If you do make things and post them, tag us on socials. We'd love to see it!

[@smithanandari]

This is an amazing course! I've been drawing caricature without any knowledge of it. I hope this lesson will be a good guidance!

[@gruenlia00]

I swear, when I saw the thumbnail, the first thing I thought, was that the caricature looks more like Obama than Obama himself.

[@TheNinjaAndrewShow]

7:20!!! Wow. I'm mixed with those 3 cultures. haha The second you displayed those mixes, I became fan for life. Thank you, this is a small detail many tutorials forget to incorporate. You are Extremely Skilled. Great Work.

[@ZeroJohnnyx]

this is good stuff! I'm an amateur painter/artist. There was a caricaturist near my booth last I was setup recently. He had a huge poster showing his previous customers. There's a difference between exaggeration & downright insulting. Anyhow, this guy had demos of his asian customers and... it was just clearly racist! ...yet, he had an image of himself as well, he definitely made himself out better than his clients. . . & they were holding his work in the photos, some of them def didn't look happy.

[@Scyrina]

such a great lesson!! Well done

[@JudoMitzu]

I expected a caricature of proko at the end.

[@ProkoTV]

Haha that might come later

[@elliemerc01]

Good one!

[@goldenlotus3598]

JudoMitzu PLLLZZZZ

[@TheXeeman]

ur profile pic is scary AF judomitzu

[@Hybridtheory32]

9:11 minutes long Obama thumbnail hmmm

[@theQiwiMan]

Took me a sec to get what you were saying.. Then I realized that jet fuel can't melt that dank joke...

[@goldenlotus3598]

theQiwiMan agreed

[@Elchinodiabolero]

Hybridtheory32 Yoooooo that shit's scaaary

[@puch2728]

Bush did 9/11

[@Arkhansyd]

9/10 *

[@Dusk425]

Takeru Satou and SRK at 7:14 Wasn't expecting them in this video lol

[@azncrawlerutube]

This is great video, and I love the sprinkle of your unique presentation style across this informative video. Video deserve much more views

[@VoidloniXaarii]

hmmm, i've seen it explained many times but never in this clear a way as deviations from standards. Awesome! Thank you very much!

[@bleachedout805]

Court Jones is the best caricature artist i have been able to find online who also provides lessons.

[@theow.6567]

This is one of the only actually helpful caricature videos I've seen on KZbin

[@Dvkpainter]

Woah ..all Porko videos so informative and entertaining!!!

[@newtoatheism5968]

I really want to get into character design and I feel like this would be important

[@DjukiArt]

This is another brilliant video! Thank you so much for these, I'm looking forward to more jkjky

[@DjukiArt]

...to more lessons

[@dramawind]

Man I sure can't wait for the next jkjky!

[@Argadeux]

Great video

[@qwertyuiop-ke7fs]

this is one of the best videos on proko's channel

[@JazGalaxy]

Even though I fully knew what I clicked on and what I was watching, it's still shocking to not to hear "Hi, I'm Stan Prokopenko" after that bass line...

[@politicalcartoonist]

When is part 3 caricature paid course gonna come out I mean really been waiting...

[@ProkoTV]

There was never a part three for the course planned. Buuuuut if you really like the course, you can follow Court on his platforms and tell him he should make one! Was there something in particular that had made you believe there was a forthcoming part three?

[@monicaspfernandes]

Simple and great explanation. Thank you for the video!

[@adaharrisonn]

I never would have thought that that 3:50 was supposed to be gene wilder.

[@CrongeComedyTV]

2:04 was not expecting Mr Earp to be here! lol

[@artkitekviktor6897]

Very informative, sir. Thank you.

[@andewhousley2993]

this guy has literally been dooing this since I was born

[@isaaclee3490]

Andew Housley which was probably recently considering you don't know how to spell "doing"

[@jorgen_florgen_shmorgen7788]

@@isaaclee3490 you do realise that there's other languages and most people aren't fluent in English?

[@veilofinnocence]

caricatures when done correctly are so impressive

[@nemmiealex2286]

Hi Proko!

[@marionavarro4668]

I

[@marionavarro4668]

I'm

[@HowlingMoonCinemas]

Hey, Proko, do you got anything on how to draw the legs?

[@ProkoTV]

+HowlingMoonCinemas not yet. After we're done with arms.

[@HowlingMoonCinemas]

Proko Excellent. By the way, when it comes to learning how to draw the human body, you're easily one of the best, if not, thee best teacher on KZbin. Great work, Proko.

[@MR_MIRTH]

nice.....

[@akashjaiswal2760]

Turn your photo into cartoon portrait bit.ly/2OzxLtg

[@bbch4]

I need these , its helps a lot .Thanks for the video!

[@amayyaduvanshi2706]

7:23 did I just see Sharukh Khan?

[@MyHeartBeatsBackwards]

Ya ...

[@pdpete]

whoop whoop! I got the premium pass. Time for some sweet extras.

[@stevemccracken5856]

You did a great job. Thank you.

[@juandominguezmurray7327]

this looks really good!

[@grenader6409]

Great idea Stan! Interesting and fresh

[@Thegirlwithroses]

Very useful!

[@dpak8418]

Very valuable 🙏🏽

[@youngcnyce]

Love how caricatures are funny yet realistic

[@Amir-7080]

Thanks a lot 🙏❤ . Finally I can draw caricature !

[@mahabaliiii]

7:16 srk

[@CaCriGuz]

Great lesson !! Thank you so much :D

[@SilentTrip]

I already like this course

[@InklanUtterfield]

Holy son of a gun! I've been whistling the opening tune for months now, thinking I invented it. And now I come back to a Proko video and realise my life was a lie.

[@justinperez4693]

Will there be lessons on caricaturing the figure later on?

[@seanramsey]

Yep! that will be several videos down the line though.

[@LuisNgchongJrArt]

thanks for posting

[@hunterandcamping5551]

that's cool

[@_Aravind_AS_]

Great, thank you

[@willdixon9525]

Totally Helpful!! Thanks!!!!

[@omlambat976]

Srk❤️

[@Troygdesign]

Fantastic!!!! but one question, Akenaten is caricature??

[@seanramsey]

Gotta watch the History of Caricature video for that ; )

[@anirbansarkar1368]

thank you very much sir

[@babaranwar5462]

You are true artist

[@alejandrocasillas3439]

Great Tutorial !! when premium is available ? some time this December ?

[@seanramsey]

The premium video for this lesson is already out with a whole second video on exaggeration : )

[@alejandrocasillas3439]

Sean Ramsey Thanks a lot

[@auroreimbert6451]

Ouiiii !!!! j'ai toujours voulu savoir comment faire des caricatures et apprendre !!!!!!!

[@vicky42559]

Is this for beginners!

[@FtLouie8D]

nice video, wanna see what's next :)

[@cryingoverspilledmilk9569]

this is really helpful

[@pum2]

YEESSS! just what I need!

[@antubhatt6667]

Is there any caricature app to use.. Plz suggest me..its urgent ☹️

[@sangdoleeTV]

캐리커쳐는 이렇게 그리는 구나~! ㅎㅎㅎ 재미있게 잘 봤습니다!

[@jrbr549]

@8:24 I recognize Eddie Murphy and Betty White but who are the other two.

[@lanafrye2364]

In your course do you critique at all?

[@zellty423]

What if they are THE average male face?

[@CourtJones]

Then it is much harder to caricature! But there are techniques I give in the second half of the course for creating stronger exaggerations. Here's a lesson that focuses on difficult or average faces. (Sorry for the delay in my reply. I just saw this!) kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHW6aWeLZdiMirM

[@keepperspective]

TAKERU SATOH!!! The desired average... Great intro.

[@patrickmanasco5905]

8:30 all I need to draw him is right there maybe speed it up more

[@carrmx0]

on the subject of the human average: im glad he at least acknowledges the inaccuracy in using a generic white male head as humanity's "average". while it's not necessarily a bad starting point in exaggerating the features of other races, i can only imagine what will become of models who stray further and further from whiteness lol... i'll express that it's not necessarily that easy to come up with a new generic model for one's own race because averaging out features is a rather mathematical process that takes an extremely well trained artist to pull off! all of my anatomy books use the same generic face structure model because these white guys have had the luxury to borrow it from one another (and ultimately, like, the greeks???romans???michelangelo???), but little has been elaborated on the generic facial structure on other races...in general...in western culture, at least. thats why i was impressed to come across the "asaro head", which genuinely looks to represent all variations of race and gender. it's a little bit more of an abstract model than the one in the video, but it has the potential to work like a charm for whites and nonwhites alike.

[@LloydMajor]

Awesome! Can i pay you to make a caricature?

[@arduous5395]

statements like those made my head explode as well

[@andreascool3041]

I thought you said its free to learn now you want us to head out where a credit card can be taken!!

[@hannahsmith5947]

This it’s amazing!

[@falconx2554]

Excelent video!

[@bboybrian]

how would you caricature the "average face"?

[@ProkoTV]

+Bboy brian I would check out Court's new lesson. His exercise helps with that problem: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHW6aWeLZdiMirM

[@martinlevrero9766]

Hey proko I brought you caricature course and I can't find in my premium dashboard please help

[@ProkoTV]

+martin levrero please email [e-mail] with your info. We'll get it fixed for you :)

[@janporto6111]

Sou do Brasil não sei nem desenhar boneco de palitos kkk posso chegar nesse nível?

[@cybergum5433]

10:55

[@sl6361]

omg cant wait to learn to caricature...

[@carnim7929]

Sudden SRK is sudden.

[@oopalonga]

holy fuck dude. . ur lvl of skill is like. . JEBUS. picaso wud certianly approve!

[@sjourc9703]

Clarity!

[@MyHeartBeatsBackwards]

0:37 I'm am dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mayanlogos92]

i wish someone to draw my caricature, oh Id love it, ith...

[@BritishComedyUK69]

awesome

[@hitthatyeetbb5245]

is 2:17 nolan north? just look at it

[@CourtJones]

That's Tom Cruise.

[@TheGamingIndian]

Not a fan of videos which are basically trailers for Paid content but are marketed as "How to". The course is obviously high quality but just put teaser of paid content in the title. There are really good quality free tutorials available too but those get pushed backwards because of these.

[@CourtJones]

All of the essential information of the course is in these free KZbin videos. I explain my concepts fully in them. The premium versions of the lessons go into more detail in some areas, and there are a ton of narrated example videos in the premium course to help put the lessons into context. So if you're serious about improving your caricature skills, the premium course is definitely recommended. But we rely ENTIRELY on income from the premium videos to make these free ones. It takes a lot of people and equipment/software to make these videos. If we didn't have the premium students, these free lessons would not exist at all. Just thought I would give a little context.

[@whatyousee3225]

yeah... i can barely draw hands for now so maybe in the future i'll try to caricature something XD

[@JazGalaxy]

Much like music, it's best to work on everything at the same time. You'll find that learning one subject will actually inform and influence your understanding of a different subject. If you only isolate and work on one thing at a time until you "perfect" it, you'll stunt your growth, create unappealing un-unified art, and probably never get to where you want to go artistically. Throw success out the window and just concentrate on learning everything you can about everything you can as much as possible.

[@whatyousee3225]

absolutely correct and amazing advice, but the thing is i'm trying to complain and nag about how hard is it drawing hands, in matter fact i'm already at the final week of my "drawing class" and all what i have to practise and study is the hands and feet, and yeah... HANDS SUCKS!!

[@JazGalaxy]

What You See ? There's a great app for iOS called "Handy". You might want to check it out. It's great for practice. It's like Proko's Skelly app but for hands. There's a bunch of different 3d models that you can rotate around and pose however you like.

[@whatyousee3225]

+JazGalaxy OH MY GOODNESS!! i'm not gonna lie this is so helpful, i've been struggling all the time to find some decent reference online "wich take a lot of time" just amazing! thank you so much man, much appreciated

[@JazGalaxy]

What You See ? Right on.

[@liammeijer3361]

wait! how did the video go over the limits? how is there a 9:30 in 9:11?

[@deathwizard1996]

Liam Meijer don't worry KZbin broke a little

[@maryamelbawab5524]

interesting

[@meganekkoato7304]

its 9:11

[@LifeforceZee]

I can’t draw worth a damn but I enjoyed this video

[@anyelim11]

I love you

[@abhingp123]

Shah Rukh Khan

[@aposterous4126]

Harrison ford’s caricature looks like my grandfather

[@stephanietanjung4099]

could you caricature korean idols??? all of them look so similar i don't know which to exaggerate.... this is not an insult, i want to make art with korean idols as models.

[@idrisidris7341]

The video is 9:11 long

[@danfors1333]

Is it still allowed to make caricatures? an artist could very easily get blamed for making something look racially stereotypic in today's politically correct society.

[@stoneheart8231]

you can do it without being racist tho??? like he said, the "average face" is different all over the world. if you're going to make a caricature of a foreign celebrity, you need to be familiar with the norm in their country. caricatures are super popular in korea for example. it only gets racist when you view white people as superior and judge everyone else by how well they conform to western beauty standards

[@danfors1333]

zoinks! If I see ten different caricature paintings from an unknown artist then I can practically calculate with high accuracy what the artist himself look like. It's easier said than done to adapt to the norm of a specific country. I'd say almost all caricature artists subconsciously use their own face as a norm because that's the face they see in the mirror every day. I myself have a small tendency to draw faces slightly skew and I don't notice it until I see it mirror flipped. The reason I often make this mistake is because my own face i slightly skew but I never notice this in the mirror, only when I see myself on photos.

[@stoneheart8231]

Dan Fors well, if someone can't stop projecting themselves into their art, then i don't think caricature is the right way to go... just my opinion.

[@allisonthabit7639]

+Dan Fors You're right that the artists will put themselves into everything they make, especially when drawing faces. In psychology, there is a well-known phenomenon called the other-race effect, which is the tendency to recognize one's own race more accurately than the face of the other races. We also recognize small differences in faces of people of our own race more easily than people of different races. I don't think that's any reason to just call it quits for caricature though. As long as the artist is aware of this tendency and properly accounts for it by doing more research and critically analyzing what they make, they shouldn't have to worry as much about creating something racist. After all, if they really thought something might look racist, they could just.... get another opinion, ideally of someone who belongs to that race/minority group. Or even a few opinions. Instead of worrying about "getting called racist" artists should instead worry about actually being racist, and take the time and effort to actually do their job right. All that this "politically correct society" demands is actually buckling down and getting your facts right.

[@icecreamhero2375]

its best nt to worry what others think and do the right thing

[@jmeyer3rn]

You forgot the eeel or whatever that creature was.

[@glitterqueen3543]

IS THAT SRK IS IT IS IT IS IT

[@prathambhalla1960]

It is

[@Gamer31795]

shah rukh khan :O