a cartoon of a chubby lady swimming

The first matter I hear when someone sits in front of me for a caricature is usually "Brand me skinnier."

Well, that and "Brand me younger." And sometimes, "Make me prettier." "Make my nose smaller." "Brand my boobs bigger."

A cartoon shark mouth leading up

People are worried nigh how they are going to look in a caricature. They want to be fabricated fun of… but not too much. Every now and then someone sits down and says "Get for information technology," but nigh of the time, I have to draw the line between funny and beautiful.

So hither'due south what I do, and what I recommend for anyone trying to draw heavier people: Divide the Deviation.

Imagine someone averagely sparse. Imagine where they would get on the paper. At present wait at the heavy person in front of you. See how much larger they are than the person you lot're imagining, and divide the difference.

A fairly average, slender face

The average thin face

An average obese face

Detect how, from the eyes upwards, nothing changes

If that cervix is actually two inches wider than the average neck, make it one inch wider. If the cheeks droop an inch below the jaw, make it half an inch. If there are 3 chins, brand information technology one and a faint suggestion of a chin.

Doing this, you can keep your good cartoon likeness and still manage to flatter a little chip. It'south kind of an optimistic drawing… information technology's what your field of study would expect like later a month or two of nutrition and exercise.

Weight is usually carried around the neck, cheeks, and jaw. There'due south non much difference between fat and skinny above the ears. Information technology'southward the lower one-half of the confront y'all accept to be virtually careful of. It'south particularly difficult when you're adding that picayune caricature body.

Run across, an average-thin face volition have a prominent jaw and a prominent chin. You describe a thick, heavy line effectually the underside of the face, and so you can slap a cervix and torso of any size underneath it. It looks similar a bobblehead, but it appears natural to us.

A really fatty person will have a big, bulging cervix that leads directly out from below their ears. The jaw vanishes. It'due south prominent enough to be an of import part of their likeness, only very difficult to bring downward into a scrawny extravaganza neck you tin can fit onto a tiny torso. With no jaw, there is no clear line where the head ends and the neck begins.

In this situation, I use the chin as my guide.

Imagine a simple mentum drawn on a page past itself. Information technology's a somewhat flattened U-shape. If you depict a sparse person'south jaw effectually it, the chin will prodrude down past the jaw. If you depict a stocky person's jaw, information technology volition join flush with the underside of the U. And if you draw a chubby person's double mentum, it will grade it's own shape a full one-half-inch or inch below that U.

A fat face on a skinny neck

Kind of flattering, kind of accurate

Here's how you lot adhere the heavy neck to the tiny torso: Use that double mentum technique. Draw a large round shape that floats below the chin. Get-go from below the ears, bulge out in the existent shape of the neck, but then bring your lines together nether the chin. Leave a gap broad enough for whatever tiny neck you're going to put there. Then, you can put a little skinny neck, a niggling skinny trunk, and go on the likeness while yet flattering a little bit!

a drawing of a fat man running with a thin man imposed over.