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Proper ways to act when you are drawing caricatures - proper personalities & dispositions
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GAIN FRIENDS : GO OUT OF YOUR WAY NOT TO DRAW DEFORMITIES AND UGLINESS OF MODELS
It is cowardly and in very bad taste to caricature deformities when it affects an individual, either in public or private life. The sympathy of your audience will naturally lean in the direction of your unfortunate subject and affect their appreciation of your genius. In ordinary comics which bear no likeness to anyone in particular, you may take such liberties, so long as you do not carry them to the point of hideousness.
Aim to make your picture pleasing, not repulsive ; thereby making friends not enemies—for upon the merits of your work depends your success.
DON'T BE TOO NERVY.
Should you at some future time be commisioned to sketch faces at a convention, in a hotel lobby, or in the street, don't be too nervy. Don't plant yourself before the individual and stare him out of countenance—the person might be sensitive. You will make him feel unpleasant and perhaps cause him to change his expression, so that you will be unable to get a good likeness. If you are too bashful to ask consent to sketch him, don't display your nerve by staring him into submission. It is not at all difficult to perform your task of sketching your subject—it can be done in a sly manner entirely unbeknown to the party being sketched.
When your caricature is published the individual will be dumbfounded to see himself in print. Many times, while performing like duties, I would under the pretext of sketching some other object cast side-glances at my subject, keeping him unaware of the fact that I was caricaturing him. I felt satisfied at gaining my point and having made no one unhappy or uncomfortable.
BE MODEST.
To be successful as a funny man you should be un- assuming. Don't presume to know it all, and by all means do not force your efforts upon the public and point to yourself as the real thing. Side-splitting jokes and sketches are usually created in seclusion, and not in the midst of an admiring crowd showering praises upon you. Don't allow your head to get swelled by flattery. Measure your own importance and use common sense in doing so_ Take success modestly and don't go 'round telling people you had a picture published last week—it is more gratifying to have them remind you that they saw your picture in print. And should your drawings be returned marked "not available," don't despair, but slam right in and produce more and of better quality, if possible. When once you have made a " hit " the publishers will ask for your entire output, together with those rejected drawings of former clays.
Don't ask silly questions such as " How do you like my style of drawing ?" or " Don't you think I'm improving ?" Modesty compels the interrogated party to say " Yes ; it is great !" etc., when down deep in his soul he thinks you're a _I-lomarus Vulgaris.
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