I dont know if this is the right place to be for this, but oh well. Im doing an art project at school and im looking for a freddie caricature, but i cant find any good ones. I already tried google, and all of them suck. Well, not all of them, but some of them dont really fit what im looking for. could you please help?
deleted user 16.03.2007 16:28
What are you looking for ?
"Caricature" can mean a lot of things. It can be a classical caricature where the person ends up looking usually ugly and silly or using the word in a "looser" sense.
Do you have to draw one ? I could draw something mildly okay looking if you wanted something specific. I'm not the best artist, or even the best artist here, but I can try if you want.
Edit : Heck, the fairy King in my opera drawing is practically a caricature of Freddie ! D : Scary.
well, im looking for something semi-realistic, semi cartoon with his facial characteristics accentuated not drastically, but noticeably, if that makes any sense. im just looking for a pic to look off of and draw bc the assignment is to draw a caricature of a famous person. if you happen to have a link or something that would be fine. im just really surprised that there arent many caricatures of freddie on google. i was really dissappointed!
Well - I would suggest making your own caricature !
After all, if you look at something already exaggerated, you're not doing the same thing as recognising prominent features and such.
This is the point of doing caricatures in art class - to get you to look at and study a person and "notice" things about them. Which is something you really need to be able to do to be a good artist.
I would suggest something like this :
Example : link
If I was making a "caricature" of that, I would emphasise his nose, overbite for character, and his eyes and eye-lashes. Also, the shapes that his bones and muscles make for his face - the deep cheek-bones large jaw.
For the 80s, his moustache is just BEGGING to be caricatured. :P
If it's full body - 70s you could make him even thinner looking, and you could make more of a "belly" in the mid-80s. Also, you can tell more with shorter hair, but he does have a "certain shape" to his head. Look at his eye-shape and make-up choices.
70s you could put a lot of necklaces on him and overload on the patterned clothing. You could caricature his "bulge" if you wanted to.
I wouldn't pick to caricature him in drag or in "I'm Going Slightly Mad" or something - because he's ALREADY really exaggerated there, and it's harder to exaggerate his actual features and not get caught up in what he's already done.
I think it's a good art class exercise. Seriously - look at his face, see what you can emphasise - see what features stand out and then draw your interpretation of it. You're not aiming for realism - so just draw what you think makes him look "unique".
It also depends on how much you want the caricature to be identified as Freddie. I have drawn some things that don't look much like who they were based on, but people know who they are or were influenced by.
Use this as a good opportunity to gain more experience with observation. Unless you're already a professional artist with spot-on anatomy - it really does help to do something like this to improve your ability to "see" what aspects of a person jump out and make them "special" (overbite !) !
Dan Corson III: Season of the Witch wrote: How long did that take you, carboengine? There are so many.
Not that long. I have two screens open at the same time - one in Internet Explorer and the other in Safari, and then it is just a quick scroll down the art pages, choose the one I want, copy, paste, and on to the next. Any time I spend with Queen is a pleasure.
I like this one, too. link
This one is my all-time favorite done by "JamieMcCarthy" and archived to the Queenzone.com Fan Art, page 8, on 11/2/2005. The thumbnail likeness shows, but when you click on it, a different drawing comes up. I hope JamieMcCarthy is still around and can upload it again so a bigger version can be seen. link
