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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 12:07 PM
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Portrait Thread. Post a portrait or sketch of yourself. Mine is from a year ago.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 12:15 PM
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1. Sketch done by a friend at work
I wear a long trench coat and a hat in the winter and she loves that look - she drew this for me one day when I was out sick and sent it home with my SO.
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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 06:13 PM
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35. Very nice! eom
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:05 PM
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38. Tres chic!
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 12:19 PM
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2. It's a few years old, but I did find the one caricature of me drawn...


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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 12:21 PM
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3. Wow, that's an incredible likeness!
Whoever did it really got your eyes - they say if you get the eyes, you've nailed the picture. :rofl:
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 12:45 PM
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7. Eyes wide open, that's for sure!
:rofl:
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 12:25 PM
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4. LOL!
Edited on Sun Mar-25-07 12:25 PM by Hardrada
And you don't look at all like what I expected.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 12:44 PM
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6. Same here - the eyes are too big and there's no... uh, fingers.
:spray:
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 10:40 PM
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51. Wow!!!!! That's great!
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 12:33 PM
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5. Two, with animated goodness:


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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 06:12 PM
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34. And what is that beverage in the second picture? eom
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deucemagnet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 12:53 PM
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8. OK, but it doesn't look much like me.
I think the "artist" had been drinking.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 01:34 PM
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12. Love these sketches.
They provide a link into the DU collective unconscious.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 01:16 PM
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9. An old self portrait...
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 02:17 PM
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15. awesome
good work!
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 02:19 PM
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16. Haha, thanks!
:)
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swimboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 02:09 PM
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59. Love that.
It's good to see it again. Nice work.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 03:47 PM
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62. Haha, thank you.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 04:00 PM
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65. Hey, you look good without hair too!
:)
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 01:18 PM
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10. :)
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 01:41 PM
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14. Very good!
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 01:24 PM
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11. That is really excellent (I assume, I don't know what you really look like)
I wish I could draw
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 01:39 PM
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13. It is what I look like. The artist lives half the year here in Iowa
and the other half in NYC where she has a studio.
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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 02:28 PM
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17. Done at Pirates Tavern (a vegan restaurant in Portland)
My friends say I'm cuter than this, though.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:07 PM
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39. That's a great sketch! I had one someone did at a mall one time
when I had a beard. I wish I still had it since I don't have a dark beard anymore.
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 02:36 PM
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18. Here's one:
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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 06:14 PM
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36. Cool.
Minimalistic (is that a word?) but cool.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 02:36 PM
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19. From my Son
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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 06:07 PM
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32. So I infer that you are a tenor?
I love it.
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 03:11 PM
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20. A dour me.
YOU try looking at a spot on the wall for 4 hours at a time!
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sammythecat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 04:00 PM
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23. If you wouldn't have said anything
I would have thought that was a very attractive portrait of a girl in a pensive moment wondering about someone.

Now I can't get it out of my head that it's the 3rd hour of staring at that spot, and another hour to go. :(

It really is a very attractive portrait. Unusual too. If the artist got your face right you should be very pleased.
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 04:01 PM
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24. The painting won some awards...
but I am usually smiling!

Believe it or not, it is a watercolor.
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sammythecat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 04:50 PM
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29. I'm not surprised it did
I am surprised it's a watercolor. Not what I think of when I think watercolor.

Good thing you're not smiling. Your expression, I think, is what makes it so interesting. If I discovered that in the attic I'd definitely bring it down and hang it. I like it a lot :thumbsup:
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 05:00 PM
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30. Funny thing is .....that probably IS my expression since
Florida 2000!

The artist's name is Mary Aro, if you google it, you can find some
other examples of her work, but mostly landscapes......
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:04 PM
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37. Very nice! And don't worry about not smiling.
I was sitting for five hours. It's impossible to hold a smile for very long. So the portrait does catch the person in a more serious mood.
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 10:08 PM
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46. Our expressions ARE similar....
Edited on Sun Mar-25-07 10:08 PM by PassingFair
We look related!
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 10:38 PM
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49. Are you a long lost cousin?
Stranger things have happened!
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 10:46 PM
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52. It's just that....
...can I go to the bathroom now? look.....
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 12:23 AM
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53. I didn't drink anything the morning before.
It worked! (I read somewhere that QEII and Prince Charles have to abstain from water since they have to sit through all those interminable ceremonies. That gave me a clue). I caught up later on though!
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Lautremont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 03:17 PM
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21. Self-Portrait:

I may or may not look egg-zactly like this.
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 03:22 PM
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22. Is that your son/daughter at the bottom? n/t
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Lautremont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 04:06 PM
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25. Yup.
In real life I have no son nor daughter nor facial hair nor bald head or wings or chicken feet, and rarely wear sunglasses. So the accuracy is a little questionable, I do admit.

On the other hand, the emotion expressed in this drawing is quite genuine, at least sometimes.
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sammythecat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 05:45 PM
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31. Just wondering
when you did this, were you at home or an institution? :scared:




Just kidding.

Really!

Honest.

:)

The information in my profile is false. I don't live there.
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Lautremont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 06:09 PM
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33. I'll see you... soon...
No, kidding! It's a crazy picture, for sure. I had to do a self-portrait for a kind of on-line art show I was in, and I came up with the nuttiest thing I could. Ta-dah!

(Check this out to see the craziness: http://www.terminus1525.ca/exhibit Click the "Game Show" tab at the bottom of the screen.)
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Evoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 04:18 PM
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26. Here
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 04:22 PM
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27. Nice Hair.
Edited on Sun Mar-25-07 04:22 PM by PassingFair
Is it feathered?
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 04:49 PM
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28. sadly i have none, lol
but thanks to photoshop i can turn a regular photo of me into this:




;)
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:10 PM
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40. Nice photo to nice sketch! Thanks.
I don't know how to do that!
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:20 PM
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41. Cleofus drew this of me.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:28 PM
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42. Nice sketch!
And it captures a cheerful mood! I guess you can smile for sketches (I still haven't).
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:38 PM
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44. I didn't smile for it - he drew it from a photo.
:)
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:30 PM
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43. Done by a sketch artist at the Dallas farmer's market
Edited on Sun Mar-25-07 09:31 PM by Prisoner_Number_Six
It's me, but every time I look at it I see my big brother.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:47 PM
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45. Thanks. That's a good idea to get a side view.
I'll remember that next time I have someone sketch me. I have a better profile on one side but I can't recall which side.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 10:35 PM
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48. That's amazing!
And a fine dual sketch! Unusual to have that. Thanks!
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Rhythm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 10:11 PM
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47. Oktoberain and I, drawn by a dear friend
Our friend Michael (whom i've known for 15+ yrs now) drew this from memory a few years ago, after the first time he visited and met Oktoberain!



The original is awaiting a proper matting and framing.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 10:40 PM
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50. Oops. meant to reply to you but I replied to myself!
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 02:11 AM
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54. I wish someone would sketch the pic of me and my son...
...in Haruka's pic thread. That would be pretty cool. (HINT HINT)
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Control-Z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 03:23 AM
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55. Wire sculpture
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 01:41 PM
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56. I like that too.
Hadn't thought of that category!
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 01:44 PM
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57. A DUer did this one for me!! Cleofus did this!
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 03:58 PM
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63. Thanks, Cleofus is talented.
A nice picture and you're smiling too!
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swimboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 02:08 PM
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58. That's excellent!
This one of me is by a local artist. I need to take a shot with better lighting as the flash distorts it and makes it appear patchier than when you are standing in front of it.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 03:59 PM
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64. That's a nice big picture. Haven't had any of those yet.
That's a pose I would prefer too, the studious look!
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Courtesy Flush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 02:27 PM
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60. Haven't painted myself. Here's my wife


Yes, it's painted with black and white paint. I haven't painted in months. Time to get back into the swing.
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Courtesy Flush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 02:29 PM
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61. Here I am at the senior center


I haven't drawn in months, either. I'm so lazy!
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 04:42 PM
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67. Great Picture. You folks are all so talented!
My attempts have always been laughable.
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sammythecat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 05:23 PM
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69. I envy you for your talent
It must be great to be able to capture something that strikes your fancy or to express your imaginings.

It must be good for the body too. It seems artists of all types generally live longer.
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 04:15 PM
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66. My "unofficial" Army portrait. I had it done privately because my official portraits all sucked:


Here's a portrait of me and Mrs. Aristus on our honeymoon:
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 04:45 PM
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68. Those are fine pictures. You are right about those official
US Army pics since they all follow and unsmiling rigid formula. Your photo humanizes a soldier. Thanks.
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 05:48 PM
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70. not exactly a portrait, but I fooled around with photoshop and a cell phone pic
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 05:56 PM
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71. Beat it on down the line, dude.
:thumbsup:

:D :P
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 10:19 PM
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74. That is interesting! I would have no idea how to do that.
Thanks.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 06:05 PM
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72. Here is a digital photo altered to look like paint.



Ok, not quite a good as a photoshopped image, but as good as I can do!
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 10:23 PM
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75. Fine effect and a fine image. I like how the light catches your hair.
Thanks!
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 06:15 PM
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73. 3D approximation of me in a game engine I'm creating
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 10:28 PM
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76. That's a few steps beyond my knowledge and an intriguing effect!
Thanks!
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