Yo,

Yea man. You know that AutoDesk brought out Alias. So you have to visit thier site to either purchase it or download the trail.

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This is the link to the site. I purchased it and its worth it. All my work form lines to colors are done in SBP. I use PS for transforming, making circles, and saving out my TIFF files to JPG. Recently I have been saving all of my files as PSD's. For some reason SBP dosent support alpha channels. So when u save a SBP file as a PSD and you say you work on it in PS. If you have any transparent backgrounds, when you open it in SBP the layer will be white. But the fact that u can save it as a PSD with the layers preserbed is awesome. Call me if you got any more specific questions.

Ok,

Well if your going for a the Caricature look then you need to understand real faces. The most important thing on a persons face are thier eyes. You can cover a persons entire face leaving the eyes open and you can tell whi that person is. And of course the rest of the face is equaly important. The thing to remeber when doing caricatures is that you need to keep a level of consitensy with the facial features relative to what it looks like in real life. Simply just exagerate the persons features while keeping the basics unique shapes of that persons features. And I cant stress enough, practice, practice, practice, practice. And more practice. I draw 12-14 hours a day.

To add to that dont try to draw it slow and get all the lines just right. Do rapid sketches. That way you can work out the features a lot better. Then take your approved sketch and trace over it with tight lines. Its a little difficult to explain it like this. I hope that helped out if not you can call me. Ill send u my number in a note.