a cartoon of a chubby lady swimming

The start thing I hear when someone sits in front of me for a caricature is normally "Brand me skinnier."

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

A cartoon shark mouth leading up

People are worried about how they are going to expect in a caricature. They desire to exist made fun of… but not likewise much. Every at present and and so someone sits downwards and says "Go for it," only about of the time, I have to depict the line between funny and cute.

And then hither's what I do, and what I recommend for anyone trying to draw heavier people: Split the Departure.

Imagine someone averagely thin. Imagine where they would go on the paper. Now look at the heavy person in front of y'all. Run into how much larger they are than the person you're imagining, and carve up the difference.

A fairly average, slender face

The average thin face

An average obese face

Notice how, from the eyes upwards, nothing changes

If that neck is actually two inches wider than the average neck, make it ane inch wider. If the cheeks droop an inch below the jaw, make it half an inch. If there are three chins, make it one and a faint suggestion of a mentum.

Doing this, you can keep your good cartoon likeness and all the same manage to flatter a little fleck. Information technology'due south kind of an optimistic drawing… information technology's what your discipline would look like later on a month or two of diet and exercise.

Weight is usually carried around the neck, cheeks, and jaw. There'due south not much difference between fat and skinny above the ears. Information technology's the lower half of the face up you accept to be nigh careful of. It'due south peculiarly difficult when yous're calculation that piffling caricature body.

See, an boilerplate-thin face up will have a prominent jaw and a prominent mentum. You draw a thick, heavy line around the underside of the face, then you lot tin can slap a neck and torso of any size underneath information technology. Information technology looks like a bobblehead, but it appears natural to u.s..

A really fatty person volition have a large, bulging neck that leads straight out from beneath their ears. The jaw vanishes. It's prominent plenty to be an important part of their likeness, but very difficult to bring downwardly into a scrawny caricature neck you lot tin can fit onto a tiny body. With no jaw, at that place is no clear line where the head ends and the cervix begins.

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

Imagine a unproblematic chin drawn on a page past itself. It'southward a somewhat flattened U-shape. If you draw a thin person's jaw effectually it, the chin will prodrude downward past the jaw. If you draw a stocky person's jaw, it will join flush with the underside of the U. And if you describe a stubby person's double mentum, it volition grade it'southward own shape a full 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 attach the heavy neck to the tiny torso: Apply that double mentum technique. Draw a big round shape that floats below the chin. Start from below the ears, bulge out in the real shape of the neck, but then bring your lines together nether the mentum. Leave a gap wide enough for whatsoever tiny neck you're going to put there. And so, y'all can put a picayune skinny neck, a footling skinny body, and keep the likeness while even so flattering a little bit!

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