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Caricature is a dish best served cold.
-Don Vito Ewing

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The concept of 'Thrust' is essential to the gesture of the pose and to the basic body language communicated.  Without attention to this visual force, one ends up with a collection of discordant butterflies.
...and that's a poor way to live your life.

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Precarious vertical balance only needs a meager anchor to keep the visual tension intact.

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While creating, inconsistencies and mistakes need to be crafted into glories and epiphanies.
--not the other way around.

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Pit shape against form and everybody wins.

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Beneath every complicated drawing lies a simple 3-second cartoony face.
Just like it is within our psyche.

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You never know what you don't know...
Sometimes it's better that way.

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George Bernard Shaw said that without art, the crudeness of reality would make life unbearable.
Caricature pushes the crudeness of reality so far forward that we come out the other side of life.
um, I think...
wait --what?

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It's far more interesting to not know where you're going when you start out.

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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
~Picasso

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Line quality is a direct artery to the inherent personality of the character.
Equal the pulses.

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If you're not drawing the interior of the person then it's not a caricature, it's but a stylized distortion.

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I may look like I'm listening to you with great intensity, but in my mind I'm really just sorting out the visual possibilities.

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