Cartooning the Body - How to Caricature the Figure

Court shares some tips for exaggerating the body and explains how you can communicate personality and likeness with the body in your caricatures. Get more demonstrations in the premium lesson at proko.com/caricature
Often, an inexperienced caricaturist will put all of their exaggeration efforts into the face and just throw on a neck, shoulders and a small body as an afterthought. But not putting any thought into exaggerating figure is a huge mistake. Just like with the head, the body’s proportions can be changed for humorous reasons, to help you better recognize the subject, or most commonly, to help tell a story or point of view about the subject.
In this lesson, Court will explain his process for cartooning the figure and show you a few examples of how he approaches different body types.
To see more examples of Court caricaturing different body types, check out the premium course. In the premium section, Court shows how to caricature: children, heavyset people, voluptuous women, doughy middle-aged men, elderly people, and Prokopenko people… proko.com/caricature
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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 how to draw caricatures. Get the course at proko.com/caricature
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CREDITS:
Artist | Instructor
Court Jones (www.courtjones.com)
Producer - Stan Prokopenko (www.stanprokopenko.com)
Script - Court Jones
Production Assistance - Sean Ramsey (www.peoplewhodrawstuff.com) James O'Shea (jfoshea.blogspot.com)
Editing - Dzmitry Tsydzik (www.white-agency.com), Sean Ramsey
Music Used with Permission
Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra
"Ain't No Friend of Mine" by Bryan Teoh
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[@lokeyartist]

Ex 1999 xD true

[@beboplaplace3762]

Anytime I look up any art style or theory or almost anything art related subject and I can always rely on promo to have a video on it! Love you guys thank you!

[@DmytroSlyusar]

'prokopenko people' that was really funny :)

[@veesentdaysendz8113]

I love caricature art,Proko your channel is fantastic!!

[@blitzofart367]

I have a inter school comptition and this is super helpfull , thanks

[@buufuu8990]

loving all the court jones

[@maudjdraw6119]

Great video Proko great great ^^

[@CaCriGuz]

This is amazing !! thank you so much :D

[@hopeandguns]

This caricature section has no end...

[@jojot.9916]

God, I asked you last video! Thank you!

[@antonioblanco3086]

Amazing!

[@dave5194]

Caricature 3d animation though... nightmare fuel

[@TheKristianRC]

Hey Proko! I'm having a rough time figuring out how to caricature people with non-disitinctive characteristics, do you have any advice on working with subjects like that ?

[@CourtJones]

The upcoming second half of this caricature course will address specifically some ways to figure out difficult/average faces. If you're really motivated to get better at caricature, be sure to get the premium version of the caricature course with lots more content and more in depth lessons on the Proko website.

[@TheKristianRC]

Thanks a lot, Court! I'll wait for the second half.

[@kangkalu4701]

What pencil are you using

[@benjaminbaron3209]

Blaze it!

[@JudoMitzu]

I'm pretty interested in "abstract" caricatures

[@javierlizarraga2476]

2:14 I think the gesture could have been pushed more.

[@alyssarenee5418]

Yeah it could have been more "dramiticised"

[@robyns2849]

Nathan Ryder i

[@26jori]

is that black and red conte he's using? Looks so pastel-y

[@CourtJones]

Yes, indeed it is. Red Conte a Paris pencil and then black.

[@srinivasraoduggapu2539]

Please teach me ..sir ..but can't pay money because I don't have that much of money. But how?

[@emanuelebinetti3143]

Court your body is shaped like a perfect rectangle

[@undeadbandit835]

love the Sherlock caricature :D

[@Mallows_28]

Basically big head caricature are well known in editorial cartooning

[@huskytzu7709]

The caricature of Batista had me rolling on floor 😂😂😂😂👌👌

[@ani2344]

1000

[@CrimePaint]

Mom said it was Batista's turn to play the Xbox

[@el__perronjamin5747]

first comentari

[@zekram2924]

Dat face tho 5:42

[@jockdouglass3824]

He's looking at Velma

[@onlyundisputed1702]

Who thought the bulky guy was the Animal Batista

[@ranianilo]

2

[@hoanganh3426]

I cant exaggerate It s so frustrating

[@vincentvinnie3628]

I have a pet turtle

[@boogiewooggie6724]

triste Nice...

[@blockygaming1229]

He's anorexic, that's not healthy

[@bent4427]

listen i like your videos, they are really interesting and not boring, but i dont like the intros to everything like gestures or face size. the text in white brings back 90s which we dont need anymore. so please no more of those texts in white screen before ur new talk thank you