Create a caricature or likeness of yourself

**steve.ledger** · 09 January 2009, 12:56 AM

The purpose of this challenge is to create an opportunity to practice and learn to draw a funny caricature or close likeness of yourself using vector drawing tools only.
Seeing other people post their efforts should motivate and encourage those who perhaps thought their work wasn't good enough to show.
Remember this is a fun Challenge and is about participation. Everyone is welcome, there will be no winners or losers, just participants showing their own work.

Any vector illustration application can be used, though Xara Xtreme is obviously preferred.
But no LE's, third party filters/plugins, no bitmap fills or pixel tools at all and definately no software tracing programs. This must be by hand.
Using a graphics tablet or mouse it is possible to quickly rough-out a sketch when using a photo as a base referrence image.

This is also an opportunity for those members who preferred not to post a real photograph in the 'Portrait of TG' thread. Now you can represent your likeness via a caricature or as a close likeness.
TalkGraphics has a number of fine cartoonist members who should find this challenge interesting and easy to join in with.

Please keep your description brief (see below), any lengthly discussion about a submission from participating and non-participating members should be avoided or taken to one of the general forums where a new thread can be opened in order to discusses that particular piece of work, techniques used, tips and so on..

Anyone can enter this challenge, though please limit it to a maximum of two submissions.

One final note, please attach your image to you post - posts with hot-linked images to external hosts will be removed.
If you don't know how, please review Eggs tutorial here.

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My example took about 20 minutes.

My workflow was simple.
1) Import photo to layer 1 - lock layer
2) Create new layer and sketch-in the details.
3) Select all lines and set them to 2pix and 'Blip' profile.
4) Group all lines
5) Colorise using a vector brush, put color to back..

**TimS** · 09 January 2009, 03:19 AM

I made this a few years ago, it pretty much looks like me.

**angelize** · 09 January 2009, 03:24 AM

Ok I had a go at this. It was fun.

**angelize** · 09 January 2009, 08:51 PM

I added in my little buddy

**georgetroy** · 10 January 2009, 02:20 AM

I spent a couple of hours on this. I think this is the first photo of me that I vectorized. Done in Expression 3, which is a little faster for me. What you see is what you get.

**georgetroy** · 10 January 2009, 02:39 AM

I did the likeness ;now here is another caricature of a little kid, not mine. This one was done in SerifDraw Plus X2. A photo was the base and I made my outlines and filled them in. Couple hours on this one two. Sometimes I shade and sometimes I don't.

**steve.ledger** · 10 January 2009, 11:40 AM

@Tim - Excellent simplicity and lines. Without seeing a photo of your natural appearance I could not tell if this were a likeness or a caricature though

@Frances - Very good likeness and you've definately captured 'yourself'.

@ Geogetroy - Very well done for your first try, noses and lips can be difficult, often I find that 'less is more'.
Your second submission, though very nicely done, is neither you nor it is all vector (there is a bitmap background) so doesn't quite fit in this topic's guidelines.

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Here's my second and final submission.
This is the comic version referenced from the same photograph as the 'likeness' vector sketch in post#1.
I tried to exaggerate some of the features and then simplify lines.
I'm no expert but I was pleased with the result.