Using a Caricature Creator

Drawing a caricature may not be the easiest thing to 
do. You do not only need to know how to draw partsEven if you do not find a matching face component in
of the face, but you will need to know how muchcomparison to the real face, you can select the most
pressure to use on the pencil, and how certain shadingsimilar face component, and edit accordingly. With the
helps accentuate certain features. However, with ascale tool, you are able to elongate or shorten that
caricature creator application, you are able to havecomponent to fit the picture reference simply by
your caricature drawn without lifting a pencil. All you willclicking and dragging. You can also use the opacity tool
need is the Internet, and the heart of a caricature artist.to increase or decrease the darkness of the lines and
 the shades of the components, which helps
Basically, the idea is to put face components togetheraccentuate certain features.
to form the desired face. With a caricature creator, 
you are given choices of face components which youAfter you have placed the components together to
can choose from. These face components areform the caricature, you can remove the background
pre-sketched images of different parts of the face bypicture easily without affecting it. You may want to
caricature artists. They are then included into asave the image in the form of a .jpeg or .gif file format
database, which is the one you will be selecting from.for keepsake. You can also share the caricature you
You can select the face components to make anhave created in websites for others to see.
entire new face, or you can use a guide, such as a 
photo of a person, to form a look.The fun thing about using this application is that you
 can come up with different looks for a specific face.
A very useful thing about this application is that itFor example, you can make a caricature of yourself
allows you to upload a photo of yourself as a form ofand change your hairstyle from straight and long, to
reference by making it a background image. Then, youafro. Or you could even give yourself a ‘face
can increase the transparency of the picture andsurgery', trying out different types of noses for
place the face components from the database ontoyourself. You're not giving yourself a new look, but you
the picture. This way, you can compare the similaritycan get an idea of how you'd look like with different
between the components that you have selected withcomponents. Try out one of these applications; you
the real face.may just find yourself a treat.