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Willem Started conversation Apr 30, 2012
Right, now for the faces of some men. I think these are pretty close likenesses. Even Dmitri might be able to identify two or three or maybe more of them! They're all pretty famous dudes:
http://i360.photobucket.com/albums/oo45/WillemvdMerwe/Illustrations%20General/Face1.jpg
http://i360.photobucket.com/albums/oo45/WillemvdMerwe/Illustrations%20General/Face2.jpg
http://i360.photobucket.com/albums/oo45/WillemvdMerwe/Illustrations%20General/Face3.jpg
http://i360.photobucket.com/albums/oo45/WillemvdMerwe/Illustrations%20General/Face4.jpg
http://i360.photobucket.com/albums/oo45/WillemvdMerwe/Illustrations%20General/Face5.jpg
Hints: artist, scientist, author, spiritual leader, author.
I did these by getting some photos online, and displaying them on my computer screen, not printing them out, so as to save ink and paper, put on some music, and sit down and sketch them trying to not take too much time. This is fun sketching practice.
To me it is important to be able to draw accurately because my art is realistic. Even my fantasy art is supposed to look real. I am still not nearly as good as I'd like to be, so I practice a lot. I feel that many artists today are neglecting the ability to draw or paint realistically. We have many artists who do abstract, simplified or stylized art, but I feel even such artists should have the skill to go ultra-realistic IF they wanted to. Picasso, and Salvador Dali, for instance, could draw and paint incredibly realistically when they were still CHILDREN. Their abstract and surreal work was built upon this foundation.
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Apr 30, 2012
I think I got three but am stuck with the authors. I thought the first one might be lewis Carroll but can't find an equivalent on the net. Is the last one Kurt Vonnegut?
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Apr 30, 2012
Oh, I agree with that, Willem. I am unable to draw realistically, so I have to abstract (what shape is that? how many triangles?) But serious artists should be able to *draw*, durnit.
It's like what my dad said about CAD. He thought it was a fine tool, but no substitute for good draughtsmanship. (He was a civil engineer, and a good one.)
My guesses, based on expression, hair, clothes, and other things rather than specific facial features, which I cannot retain:
van Gogh, Einstein, Dickens, the Dalai Lama, and Twain?
They're all expressive, with a great warmth. 
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Apr 30, 2012
You're right about the authors, Dmitri:
http://www.biography.com/imported/images/Biography/Images/Profiles/D/Charles-Dickens-9274087-2-402.jpg
http://klappentexterin.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/twain3.jpg
And the other three I had recognised, too.
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Willem Posted Apr 30, 2012
Hi Bel, and Dmitri, and well done to you both 
!
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Apr 30, 2012
Well done YOU - it's because of your great artistic talent that they were so easily recognisable (if you knew them, that is).
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Elektragheorgheni -Please read 'The Post' Posted Apr 30, 2012
I missed Dickens but got all the others. These were very well done, especially the scruffy beards.
I know shaving was dangerous back then ---but it seems to me a good reason to stay an old maid!
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Apr 30, 2012
Hey, Willem, do you think you could resize those pictures to 300x400 pixels, and send them to the Post? We could make a quiz out of them. 
(And encourage art appreciation.)
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Peanut Posted Apr 30, 2012
excellent sketches 
I only got two, Einstein and the Dalai Lama, did kick myself a little bit for not getting Van Gogh
Twain's eyebrows, my, they are something to behold 
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Willem Posted May 1, 2012
Hello Elektra and Peanut, thanks for your comments also! Elektra, I'm also happy about convenient razor blades, since my beard would otherwise be the most miserable scruffy thing ever, not to mention that most of it would be on my neck rather than on my face. But actually efficient shaving technology has been around for longer than even those old-timers ... watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWSTE6WLB0Y&
Dmitri, I'll send the pics to you tomorrow along with the next Colours of Wildlife submission. How about this for a title ... Five Famous Faces? We might do this quiz regularly if the folks like it.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted May 1, 2012
That's a grea video, Willem. I'd read about obsidian knives, but never seen one in action.
That man is brave. When he took that blade to his neck, I swear I had sympathy pains.
I like the title. And yeah, this would make a great quiz series.
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- 1: Willem (Apr 30, 2012)
- 2: aka Bel - A87832164 (Apr 30, 2012)
- 3: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Apr 30, 2012)
- 4: aka Bel - A87832164 (Apr 30, 2012)
- 5: Willem (Apr 30, 2012)
- 6: aka Bel - A87832164 (Apr 30, 2012)
- 7: Elektragheorgheni -Please read 'The Post' (Apr 30, 2012)
- 8: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Apr 30, 2012)
- 9: Peanut (Apr 30, 2012)
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