J-Exhibit Caricatures

1. Nora
   August 7th, 2007 at 10:05 pm

   Ok...heres what I assumed this artist did. First he took common pictures and opened them in a goo program (photoshop, whatever). He then exaggerated features (ala...pinch this, pull that) till he got them the way he wanted them. He then printed out the picture and used the exaggerated photo for reference for the actual painting. Sure theres still skill involved...but its not hard when you know how its done.

2. artbot
   August 7th, 2007 at 10:28 pm

   Damn, that my be one of the most ridiculously over-built flash interfaces I've seen in a while.

3. Ali S.
   August 7th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

   I think my laptop almost died because of all that flash. O_O

4. yayo
   August 8th, 2007 at 12:57 am

   One: I do hate flash also
   Two: All caricatures are original paints, he may be using photo refrences but not photoshoped neither printed, as you can see in the textures it's an oil paint or the like

5. c-dub
   August 8th, 2007 at 1:01 am

   Nora, that's such a naive statement. It's akin to looking at a nice sketch and saying, "I think what the artist did is take the sharp end of a pencil, the end that makes a line, and rubbed it against a piece of paper. It's a nice sketch, but not so hard once you know how it's done." Software is just a tool, like any other, and knowing how a tool works doesn't make you an talented artist -- or, apparently, a talented critic.

6. Weakly
   August 8th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

   That is one of the most aggressively bad flash interfaces I've seen in a long time. Also, Nora is an idiot.

7. mike
   August 9th, 2007 at 3:44 am

   the paintings are amazing

   i like the site, for those how hate flash that doesn't mean it is bad, ok there are a few thing that can be done better but you guys have to learn how to criticize

8. yayo
   August 9th, 2007 at 3:52 am

   Me hating flash anyway ^^

   Also if the user have to learn how to navigate the application and it's not a game, it's pretty bad done for sure. May be original or a piece of artwork but it's not a good interface

   I recomend this book http://www.sensible.com/buythebook.html

   not only for webapps ^^

9. mike
   August 9th, 2007 at 4:04 am

   well you dont have to learn people have the choice to skip and explore so what is wrong about that, this site is not selling anything and is not a public service is an online exhibition, yes there have to be some more obvious areas but pretty bad done, mmmmm show me your site to see how accessible it is

   yes that is a good book

   flash hater

10. yayo
    August 9th, 2007 at 4:15 am

    sure, go and visit it, click on the ads if you please... and visit using w3m.sf.net to see if the flash works XDD

11. Weakly
    August 9th, 2007 at 2:39 pm

    When the interface is so bad it actually detracts from the content, or dissuades the person from visiting the site, yes that's a bad design. I didn't think we'd need to spell it out for mike's benefit.

12. kiki
    August 10th, 2007 at 3:23 am

    this is brilliant, love the link

13. Dragos
    August 21st, 2007 at 5:27 am

    The gallery is great and the artist also. As for the website it's funny that almost all of you agree that navigation and/or website suck. You have no ideea of webdesign and websites .

14. yayo
    August 21st, 2007 at 5:51 am

    Damn, they should kick me out of my job! ^g^

15. Freddy
    January 10th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    What's really strange is that nobody seems to know the name of the artist.

16. yayo
    January 10th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    he's J. Leal as you can read on the first page. You can visit his debianart gallery here and web page here:

    http://www.j-leal.com/

    http://jleal.deviantart.com

17. Graeme hall
    April 28th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    The artist is sebastian kruger see http://www.krugerstars.com

18. yayo
    April 28th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    Sorry, The artist is not sebastian kruger I love kruger works but this is J. Leal:

    http://www.j-leal.com/

    http://jleal.deviantart.com

19. Jojin Kang
    May 18th, 2009 at 2:18 am

    possibly the best caricature artist I have come across since Kruger..
    maybe one of his students?

20. Wittygraphy: The Caricature Community
    July 1st, 2009 at 2:24 am

    Your drawings are fantastic! It would be great if you would share them with our community at http://www.wittygraphy.com. Wittygraphy is the largest social network to share, discuss, promote, buy and sell caricatures. We have a large user base of caricature fans to provide more exposure to your artwork. Participation of artists means a lot to our community.

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