Distorted Portrait MC Escher Style

ColorDrawing from Dick Blick online catalog

Exaggeration and distortion

• MC Escher style

How can you use exaggeration and distortion to emphasise a particular feature or characteristic of a person to assist you to make a powerful or comical statement about them or their image?

• Look at the work of artists, caricatures and cartoons to discuss how distortion and exaggeration are use to highlight a particular character or characteristic.

• Experiment with distortion and exaggeration

• An easy way to do this is to draw a grid over a portrait or a photograph. Draw a grid on a piece of paper with the same number of horizontal and vertical lines as the original grid, but varying the distance between the lines or using wavy lines. The grids are used as reference points to transfer the original image onto the paper in a distorted format. This image can be used as a starting point for another composition or for a construction such as the clay construction of a head.

**Either Create a grey scale pencil drawing or create a color one.