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If there's any concern that practicing caricature will damage your skills for realism in portraiture, keep in mind that the strongest portraits are the ones that reach the essence of the sitter, and caricature is nearly all essence. The best realism has deep within ...an unrealistic emphasis.

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IF ...imperfect

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."

Woody Allen perfected imperfection throughout his art and life, dovetailing the two into a perfect blend of inadequacy and frailty; ~the ultimate chink in anybody's armor.

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IF ...obsession

The rather enigmatic Captain Ahab was more the embodiment of obsession than a 'human' character; haunted by revenge on the great white whale, he obliterated with abandon.

~~"for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee!"

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Some folks just let it flow...
0thers can't wait to blow
~(those that have a youthful glow)

but the rest~~
don't want to know.
happy birthday

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IF ...perennial

The picture of our perennial evergreen friend, Dorian Gray, was worth a 1000 dirty deeds. ~~He had it made living his life with impunity, and none the worse for wear and tear; but in the end he was as deciduous as a fallen angel.

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If you look closely you can often see a preview of the next caricature looming in the background.
cool for you.

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IF ...gesture

Marketing became priority number one in 1983 when the Star Wars franchise set out to concoct cutesy character designs that would be "irresistible" in the toy aisles... Hence the Ewoks (Wookiees spelled sideways?). Had Darth Vader been at the meetings, he surely would have had a gesture or two to tender.

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Exaggeration is a two way street. Balance in distortion is the end all in any caricature, so all you enlarge should be balanced with what you can diminish.
Inflate the psyche and shatter the ego.
:)

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IF ...stay

Father and son teams are not unique in presidential history. The Adams duo was the first ~and only other, pair ~(the Harrisons skipped a generation). The Bush family came to stay on and off in the last two decades ~one of them even had a quail for a vice president, begging the question: Was a bird in the house worth two of the Bush?

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Another reason to have Desmond Tutu as a personal hero is for saying: "Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to bicycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."

More than makes up for his name...

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IF ...remedy

Would you, could you,

in a book?

Rhyme it, time it,

like a kook?

Dr. Seuss came on the scene in the the 1950s with a remedy for illiteracy ~and his special brand of book learning made reading more palatable to children than it had ever been.

I do so like

small word flimflam!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Seuss-I-am!

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