A portrait artist attempts to recreate real-life pictures while a caricature artist focuses on exaggeration. Some over-exaggerate facial features; this is only a matter of style. For example, will the sketches be over-pronounced or will it just be a sized-up original object? To what degree should you combine the thin, thick, and dark lines?

Always start with the shortest subject if you are drawing multiple subjects on a single page. Rather than draw horizontally, stack them vertically on your paper. Art class 101 lessons of drawing circles for the head and then filling the eyes, nose and mouth is reversed. In sketching caricatures draw the insides of the face first and mentally get an idea of where the cheeks and chin will fall on the paper. Lightly sketch some boundaries, but leave finishing touches yet. Begin with the eyes, the top eyelids first. Observe the distance, size and shape.

Next draw the outline of the nose and note the relationship between the eyes and the nose. If your subject has a large nose, use thick lines, here is a good opportunity to exaggerate.

When drawing the mouth, pay attention to the distance from the nose to the mouth. Observe the top lip. Is it thin or pouty? For wide-mouthed subjects, over-exaggeration works well here. Use softer lines.

The face is drawn in a top to bottom order. Next, draw the chin, cheeks, and jaw in that particular order. The chin provides another opportunity to exaggerate. Drawing the chin first also automatically suggest how the jaw line ends.

Remember this while learning how to become a caricature artist – exaggerations do not always have to be up-scaled.

Next, draw the ears and the inside hairline. At this point, the finished caricature will clearly show if or not they have a big forehead.
Round up by drawing in the hair and head. If they have hair, be generous, bear in mind that the outer perimeter of the head is an edge so a thick line is needed.

Next, draw in the bottom eyelid and add the eye bags if present, next, eyeballs and return to finish the bridge of the nose. Next draw the cheeks, take note; some people have more cheek structure than others.

The final steps are to add the minor details such as freckles, scars, and facial hair and your caricature is almost complete. Add finishing touches and now you have successfully mastered how to become a caricature artist!

Basically, the caricature maker has a database of different ready-drawn features. These features are categorized into their particular features, such as eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, ears, hair, and face shape. All you need to do is to choose the feature you would like, and then select from the options of the feature you have selected. For example, if you chose the eye feature, you would have a selection of eye shapes to choose from, be it bigger, smaller, rounder or even longer eyes. Do not worry that the shape of the feature is not as big or round as you want. The program allows you to change the shapes as desired. Pick the closest matching feature to the one you have in mind, and then edit accordingly. After you have selected and edited each feature, you can see the results of your creativity.

Another thing you can do is to upload a photo of a face, and make it into an animated caricature. The program will transform the face into a stamp, which you can easily reuse with the click of a button. This allows you to choose the background and wardrobe you would like to have the face on. After that, you can choose to download or dispose of your end product. Downloading it can be done by saving the caricature in.jpeg or.gif file formats to your computer. You also have the option of putting your caricatures online in any websites that supports HTML script codes, by copying the codes and pasting it into the desired website. An alternative is also to send the picture to your e-mail.

Some of these programs offer more advanced services, where a real caricature artist draws the caricature for you. Usually, you will need to pay for the services. Such services can include a personalized caricature of you which can be used as a gift idea, or even made into an animated caricature. Usually, you will have to send in photos of faces of which you want caricatures drawn, along with the background and wardrobe of your choice.