Thursday, May 21, 2009

Face book. Or, a book of faces.

Once Eleanor, my three year old daughter who is always thinking, opened my sketch book and asked me: "Daddy, is this your facebook?" I suspect she had heard us talk about the ubiquitous social network. It made sense. I like to draw faces, in fact they are mostly all of what I draw lately.

Fast forward a few months and I was in class, missing my brothers and thought, "It might be nice to draw them. Well, I know I saw that picture on facebook..."



Then it hit me: facebook is a near infinite source for new faces to draw.

You might remember Sean Michel from his rousing performance of Johnny Cash's "God's Gonna Cut you Down"on American Idol two years ago. I remember him from Dr. Mwase's World Religion class and his home-made bell-bottoms.

Who's next? Any requests? They make great profile pic's. However, I make no guarantees that any of your facial features will be in proportion to any other.

4 comments:

  1. You are so ridiculously talented! Love your book of faces/sketches, and even more so love that Eleanor asked if it was your Facebook! She is so clever.

    I don't know if I have any good headshots on my Facebook profile...or anywhere?

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  2. you can draw me if you'd like... the ones you posted above look good.

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  3. Yes please! That would be awesome. Is my google chat pic a good enough starting point?

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  4. Wow what fun. If Anyone interested should send me a message on facebook so I can get easy links to photos of you for when I need something to draw in class.

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