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Interview with Jan Op de Beeck (English version) Back Interview: Stegun and Paffaro Traduction: Cibele Oliveira (Fabricarica Mar/2005) Presentation: When I first got interested in caricatures, round 2000, one of the first and most interesting websites I found, during my caricature searches, was Jan Op de Beeck`s (www.opdebeek.com). Since than, Ive been keeping up his works. With a spontaneous and precise stroke, his main characteristic is the great distortion applied in his caricatures. Op de Beeck was born in Congo, in 1958 and moved to Belgium in 1960, where he still lives. Rewarded in several countries, he was elected in 2003 the Worlds Best Caricaturist by the Irans Professional Cartoonists Association. He travels the world doing workshops about caricatures, and has already published 3 books about it. In exclusive interview to Fabricarica Jan Op de Beeck tell us a little about his professional life. Interview to Fabricarica website 1) Hi Jan! Firstly wed like to thank you for your time and attention given in our interview. First of all, wed like you to introduce yourself, and tell us a little about how and when you started to be part of the art business. Jan: I am married, and have three grown up children now. I teach arts in an advertising department in Mechelen, my hometown. I am alse an independant caricature artist, doing party caricatures, walking dinners etc. I try to find time to work on my new book about caricatures. I started doing caricatures in secundary school, drawing the teachers, like so many people do. Professionally I started about 1991, doing editorial cartooning for the biggest paper in Belgium. 2) Which artists have influenced your work the most? Jan: During my youth I have been reading a lot of comics, which was permitted and even stimulated by my father. The best European artist is not Hergé, but Franquin, who lived and worked in Brussels. Probably my first influence in caricature was the American David Levine, who was published widely in Europe since the sixties. Afterwards came Mulatier, the great French caricature artist. By studying these two artists I learned how to do the crosshatching 3) Which works you consider most important in you carrier? Tell us a little about them. Jan: I have not too many works by which I am satisfied. It is so easy to find mistakes when you make them yourself! Maybe the drawing of Einstein is technically the best I ever made, just with penscil/crosshatching. I do love, however, a lot of my sketches, because they are vivid, loose. Sketching is the most important part in caricatures: you see the hand of the artist, whithout any tricks. Lately I have been doing some digital drawings in Photoshop, and some of them really please me. I have to evolve a lot, though. I hope my best work is still to come. 4) What is caricature to you? Jan: Caricature can mean a lot of things. When I do it live, it is communication between an artist and his model. When I am in my studio, it is a personal thing. As an assignment, I do not enjoy caricature half as much as when I do it for myself. For me, the exaggeration is very important. I see so many caricatures that are done badly. The artist really should look well before starting. Also a caricature must have an expression. A caricature artist should be able to capture the soul of the person he is drawing. 5) Describe your caricature making process. Jan: I cannot describe without examples On the forum of the NCN (National Caricaturist Network) I have posted several step-by-step drawings with comment, but this cannot be done here 6) Tell us a little about the different caricatures techniques and styles. Which one is your favorite and why? Jan: As I mentioned before, I like sketching. In my studio sketches I work with markers and colored pencils. When I draw live, I use gray markers and a black brush marker for the linework. 7) What do you think is essential and cant be missed in a caricature? Jan: The right exaggeration and the likeness. Th emagic is to combine them well. 8) Do you have any difficulty doing a new caricature? If you do, which one (s)? Jan: Everybody can be drawn. The problem is that for some famous persons, we do not have the right photos. I had tried Julia Roberts in the past, and only made bad drawings. At one moment, the right photo fell into my hands, and immediately I made a good drawing. This means that the person (although he can be easy or difficult to draw) is less important than having the right photo of that person. 9) How do you see the caricature production nowadays? Jan: There is a lot of mediocre work, of which mine is a part. 10) Nowadays, which artists do you admire? Jan: The best caricature artist is without any doubt Sebastian Krüger. Furthermore (running the risk of forgetting some), I like Roldan, Superbi, Turcios, Brodner, Levine, Silver, Richmond, Drucker, The best live artists can be found in the USA. Some of the best are Joe Bluhm, Chris Rommel, Court Jones and Glenn Ferguson. There are many other fantastic caricaturists in the USA. 11) What does it take to be a good caricaturist? Jan: The ability to see. And, you have to be able to draw normally before you start exaggerating. 12) What are your tips for those who are thinking about starting the graphic humor? Jan: Practice every day, and copy the work of the ones you admire. Stephen Silver said: if you practise every day, you dont have to look for your own style. Your style will find you. 13) Leave a final message for our Fabricaricas surfers. Jan: Dont stop practicing, not even when you get only good comment on your work. If you do stop, youll stay mediocre. ---x---x---x--- ( Information and contact : http://www.opdebeeck.com ) _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pakarti/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
