Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-09-29

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me into the middle Of tic street. But so
long as | talked only Of business mat
tiers and took ont no notebook he could
not treat me uncivilly. AS We talked |
studied his face very closely, and then
when ! went out | purposely left my
umbrella standing in the corner,
"Outsidc hastenGd to make a sketch
Of him, but found that | had overlooked
one or two important features, so went
back after my umbrella and, stopping to
say few words to him, closely observed
the omitted features and thus succeeded
in getting II first rate likeness Of him. lie
forgavG me aiterward and was 50 far
from displeased at my caricaturcs Of
him that VIC became good friends.
VALUABLE EXPERIENCE.
"The experiences of those days taught
me many Il good lesson" continued Mr..
keppler. For one thing, learned how
to catch a mans face in the shortest
possible time and hold it in my mind
until could 70 somewhere and sketch
it. OF course, ! was familiar with hun
dreds of faces Of historic men, and |
soon found that almost every man met
looked somewhat like one or another of
these. So | began to form u plan of
noting III my mind how these meE
differed from the historically familiar
faces. One man, for instance, would
look like Napoleon, only his nose would
not be quite SO long. So, you see, did
not have TO remember his whole face,
but only the difference between it and
Napoleon's.
"lf you have never noticed it you
would be surprised at the number of
prominent men in this country who
have looked like Napoleon, and there
have been even more who looked like
Grant. A single line in any one of a
score Of faces would make change
which would produce good portrait of
General Grant.
"Ihen, too, almost every man looks
like Or rather suggests to me some ami
mai or bird or some inanimate thing.
One man looks like Il fish in the face,
another like Il bull, another like II frog,
an owl, an eagle, and a great many call
to my mind such things as bottles and
dome5 and numerical figures. | know
one man whose face always reminds me
Of the figure 8" and as he spoke Mr.
keppler took up his pencil and roughly
drew figure 3, which with four added
lines explained clearly what he meant.
CHANGING EXPRESSIONS. M
Mr.. keppler's early experience as an
actor taught him much of that skill he
possesses in changing the expression of
a face by means Of a few lines.
"The nose" he says, SIS Il fixture. 1t
is not necessary to change it much to
produce different expression. The
eyes and the mouth require changing,
and it can be done with very few lines
If you wish a pleasant expression you
arch the brow lines and turn the corners
Of the mouth upward, while for cross
expression you make the eyes in straight
lines and turn the mouth downward.
When | once have drawn face | re-
member it always, and can draw it from
memory giving it any expression l
please.
"Ihis remembering faces sometimes
gets me into embarrassing trouble. L
frequently meet men with whom think
am acquainted, and after have spoken
to them find | know them only from
having drawn their faces.
THE SECRET
"The secret Of caricature," said Mr..
eXaFgeration. Of course. I'M frat we
have to determine what feature is to be
exaggerated, If 4 man has IN evtra-
ordinarily prominent nose we must make
it more prominent but we must pre-.
serve the character of his nose. 1t may
be large and PIGGY, fat at the end like
Blainc's or long and pointed like Conk-
li0g's; the trick is to make Blaine's
linv's longer and more nointad
"But caricatnre does Mi deal perelv
with faces and forms. II has Ia AZ witb
character as we'll. If i man ho notnri'
ously stingy that stinrinnss p,nst IL
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