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