| Drawing a caricature may not be the easiest thing to | | | | |
| do. You do not only need to know how to draw parts | | | | Even if you do not find a matching face component in |
| of the face, but you will need to know how much | | | | comparison to the real face, you can select the most |
| pressure to use on the pencil, and how certain shading | | | | similar face component, and edit accordingly. With the |
| helps accentuate certain features. However, with a | | | | scale tool, you are able to elongate or shorten that |
| caricature creator application, you are able to have | | | | component to fit the picture reference simply by |
| your caricature drawn without lifting a pencil. All you will | | | | clicking 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 together | | | | accentuate certain features. |
| to form the desired face. With a caricature creator, | | | | |
| you are given choices of face components which you | | | | After you have placed the components together to |
| can choose from. These face components are | | | | form the caricature, you can remove the background |
| pre-sketched images of different parts of the face by | | | | picture easily without affecting it. You may want to |
| caricature artists. They are then included into a | | | | save 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 an | | | | have 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 it | | | | For example, you can make a caricature of yourself |
| allows you to upload a photo of yourself as a form of | | | | and change your hairstyle from straight and long, to |
| reference by making it a background image. Then, you | | | | afro. Or you could even give yourself a ‘face |
| can increase the transparency of the picture and | | | | surgery', trying out different types of noses for |
| place the face components from the database onto | | | | yourself. You're not giving yourself a new look, but you |
| the picture. This way, you can compare the similarity | | | | can get an idea of how you'd look like with different |
| between the components that you have selected with | | | | components. Try out one of these applications; you |
| the real face. | | | | may just find yourself a treat. |