Freddie caricature

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skiqueen · Member since March 2006

16 March 2007 16:21

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?

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Unknown

16 March 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.

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skiqueen · Member since March 2006

16 March 2007 16:35

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!

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Unknown

16 March 2007 17:05

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 : http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n310/KelleyofLove/0BohemianRhapsody4-1.jpg

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 !) !

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Ella! Formerly known as the Metal Maiden · Member since June 2006

16 March 2007 18:59

HI skiqueen! I found this one.... I don't really know what you're looking for, but this one seems pretty cool to me....

http://www.vizcarra.info/es/verCaricatura.asp?i=269

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Sergei. · Member since November 2005

16 March 2007 19:10

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Wembley fan86 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]HI skiqueen! I found this one.... I don't really know what you're looking for, but this one seems pretty cool to me....

http://www.vizcarra.info/es/verCaricatura.asp?i=269 [/QUOTE]
Whoa... that was scary. XD

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Ella! Formerly known as the Metal Maiden · Member since June 2006

16 March 2007 19:14

http://www.vizcarra.info/es/verCaricatura.asp?i=220

here's another cute one

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beautifulsoup · Member since September 2005

16 March 2007 19:18

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Wembley fan86 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]http://www.vizcarra.info/es/verCaricatura.asp?i=220

here's another cute one[/QUOTE]

Eeeek! <<runs screaming into the night>>

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ScaramoucheFandango · Member since December 2006

16 March 2007 23:16

^ zomg.

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marcenciels · Member since February 2007

17 March 2007 10:19

scarry amusing...loll...

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DavidRFuller · Member since November 2005

17 March 2007 16:34

http://www.londonstimes.us/toons/cartoons/dave_freddie.gif

http://www.magixl.com/caric./starsb/mercury.gif

http://www.magixl.com/caric./starsb/queen.gif

And what about the AKOM cover?

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Drowse1 · Member since October 2006

17 March 2007 16:52

Try www.rocktoons.com. They have some good pics on there sent in by fans etc. There's a good colour caricature of Queen that I use as wallpaper on my pc.

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carboengine · Member since November 2004

18 March 2007 20:04

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beautifulsoup · Member since September 2005

18 March 2007 21:58

^

Wow, thanks for all those!

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Dan C. · Member since July 2004

19 March 2007 03:00

How long did that take you, carboengine? There are so many.

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