Caricatures

[Doug Nelson]

"A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect."

I've been playing around with using Photoshop to do caricatures from portraits. Not surprisingly, I'm very bad at it, but I can see a lot of interesting possibilities.

Have you ever tried making a caricature from a portrait? How'd it turn out? (Mine just end up being kinda scary, perhaps because photos are so realistic, perhaps because I have no talent for such things).

You'd never know it, but this used to be Hugh Grant.

[Doug Nelson]

It came out a little less scary with the liquify tool (but not much)

[Duv]

Caricature: "A self induced distortion of one's features to produce comic or grotesque effects"