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A change in venue for most of these. Still a Peet's, but this one is in Seal Beach. VERY different group of targets clientele. The Orange curtain descended, and the attitude rose... Although it was somewhat uncomfortable there, I got a passel of heads I was pleased with, and here they are for you.
There was no let up from this lady. I tried to capture it.
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It's important to vary the line quality to match the attitude you're communicating. Here, below, you might notice the shift in energy and solidity.

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Different day, different Peet's:

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OMG!
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At times, people have conflicting directions on their faces. This is far from a problem for the caricaturist...
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Some folk struggle to have a single cohesive direction... this forces a celebration of facial specifics in order to avoid a static line. The search is always on for a visual spark.
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It can be about body language,

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or attitude and mood as well.

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Children are even more challenging than women to draw...for many of the same reasons. If you overdraw you quickly accumulate years on the person until it's questionable whether it's a child or perhaps an effeminate man. It's an exercise in editing, you should only give your viewer features and facial elements on a "need to see" basis.
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In case you were concerned about the drawing below, it IS a drawing of a middle-age+ adult, and NOT an overdrawn child image.

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Or maybe I'm lying. And this entire post is all overdrawn children...
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It's likely, I'm sure, some of these men act childish sometimes... so who's to argue? A good exercise would be to draw an adult as you might assume they looked as children.

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Which begs the question: Is the drawing below an assumption, or alla prima?
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Sometimes the most interesting angles tell you more about the person than full frontal face-ity. Here most folks were in their own space. Good for the hunter...

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Gears are turning below.

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I would never even think of disagreeing with this lady below...

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Makes me want my own mug of coffee and paper.