Caricature Portrait with Graphite
Influences
A course by Víctor Vélez , Caricature Artist
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you the caricature work of some artists that I admire, so you can see the different ways and styles of doing this type of character representation.”
In this video lesson Víctor Vélez addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Caricature Portrait with Graphite. Learn to depict people and capture their essence through a caricature portrait.
Partial transcription of the video
“Well, and now I'm going to share some artists that have influenced my work very strongly. The first one I want to talk about is Chango Cabral. He is a Mexican cartoonist that strongly impacted my way of seeing life with his drawings since I was a child. Here I have the book "Life on a flyer". In this image we see Chango Cabral with all his cartoons or some cartoons that he published in Magazine of Excélsior magazines. This is a Mexican cartoonist that had a lot of impact in those days. When I discovered this photograph, I could identify characters like Beethoven or Churchill. There are as d...”
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Course summary for: Caricature Portrait with Graphite
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration
Víctor Vélez
A course by Víctor Vélez
Víctor Vélez is a caricature artist from Mexico City with more than three decades of experience in the industry. He published his first piece at the age of 16, launching a long-term collaboration with El Universal, one of the biggest newspapers in Mexico. He has also collaborated with other major publications such as El Economista, La Jornada, and Reforma. He is currently a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte in Mexico, specifically in the field of graphic narrative.
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