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Animals in Art Week The power of caricature By definition, cartoon is a style of drawing that pushes, exaggerates, or otherwise "distorts" a subject in order to bring out its character, make it more expressive and appealing, and convey a certain emotion or message. A caricature is a very powerful way to achieve this: by taking a few elements of a subject and making them more prominent, we convey a specific message about the character we are creating. This applies to creating animal characters as well! Caricature involves pushing the proportions of the animal's key features in order to make the expression more readable, more "human-like". In