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Community => Recreation Commons => Topic started by: Buster's Uncle on October 01, 2012, 03:46:42 PM

Title: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 01, 2012, 03:46:42 PM

So, my avatar looks a good bit like my dad - that inspired me to try altering it to look like me.

The attachment is much improved from the version I posted in Council Room; that one looks as much like my brother, provided the good Reverend assumed a hippy look.  It needed the nose lengthened.  This is actually a pretty good likeness.

So, would anyone else like to post a self portrait?  Altering something else, like I did, is fine for those who can't draw very well, like me. Kil, make sure yours is human, and wearing pants, if only out of frame.

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 01, 2012, 05:28:34 PM

...So then I just had to do Buster's Daddy - not quite as good a likeness, but that's him, all right.

I had to email my family with some attachments...

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Flygon on October 02, 2012, 04:14:31 AM

(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2651992/Art/Avatars/agnphphoto.png)
Who says I don't really look like this? :D

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 02, 2012, 04:19:47 AM

I do.  Why do you ask?

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 04, 2012, 12:06:42 AM

-And for purposes of proving that I got a decent likeness, here's me, trying to imitate the pose and not getting the lighting very close.  I did nothing to this but crop it the same way. 

Buster's Daddy says the resemblance to Horton Heath must be genetic, though we have no known people in Texas on that side of the family.

I see I need to trim my fur.

...And the oddest part is that I chose this avatar not because of any resemblance to my dad or me, but because Manuel is a deeply troubled man of who I'm very fond since I wrote about him, and because to an artist's eye, the visceral emotion of the shot, and even his wrinkles, are beautiful, and I'm proud of my work...

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Unorthodox on October 11, 2012, 07:02:16 PM

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-RYWiiQ28E6k/TxIGtgGNg1I/AAAAAAAALO4/nUrKjJVIEkA/s800/IMG_6039%255B1%255D.JPG)

;)

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 11, 2012, 07:09:58 PM

-To an artist, that is a beautiful face.

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Kilkakon on October 27, 2012, 04:47:10 PM

Haha I could try and organise something tomorrow. :D

@Flygon: I do! That's not a flygon. XD ...sorry haha

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 28, 2012, 01:34:48 PM

Your tomorrow or mine?  I think it's both, now -

Busy adding pants?

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Kilkakon on October 28, 2012, 01:45:59 PM

Haha I have plenty of photos, do you want a photo of me then?

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 28, 2012, 01:52:37 PM

That would be slighty a separate topic - the world demands an artistic rendering of Tristan -not the pokemon.

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Kilkakon on October 28, 2012, 01:56:30 PM

I was thinking a double self portait sometime, of like the two different mes back to back, but yeah, I can't say I have actually drawn me for years. :O

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 28, 2012, 02:00:49 PM

Or pants. :D

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: JarlWolf on November 01, 2012, 01:26:38 AM

Did a propaganda esque light over dark version of yours truly.

(http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m494/JarlWolf/Yuri1.png)

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 01, 2012, 01:36:20 AM

Is that a processed photo?  Nice.

And do I see a long mustache?  I just knew you had a thick mustache (your handle screams it, somehow), and feel very gratified now. :)

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: JarlWolf on November 01, 2012, 02:50:09 AM

I've had a mustache for many years. I've always had some form of mustache for at least 30 or so years.
I'd feel incomplete without one, it'd be sort of like removing one's dignity if my mustache left me.

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 01, 2012, 02:53:55 AM

Hey, you saw that I'm a hippy; I don't get to judge.

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: JarlWolf on November 01, 2012, 03:05:46 AM

Any proper man will tell you he has been in a marriage lasting over 25 years. Me? I've been happily married for 53 odd years. Me and my mustache were married back when I enlisted, back in 58.

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 01, 2012, 03:10:34 AM

 ;lol

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Kilkakon on November 03, 2012, 04:42:54 AM

Aha well the thing I mentioned properly wouldn't happen for months, sorry BU.

Still, I used to have a beard when I was younger. :O

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 03, 2012, 04:48:59 AM

A drawing or it didn't happen.  :P

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Alfapiomega on November 04, 2012, 07:29:36 AM

Quote from: BUncle on October 01, 2012, 05:28:34 PM

...So then I just had to do Buster's Daddy - not quite as good a likeness, but that's him, all right.

I had to email my family with some attachments...

that's actually a great resemblance with the photo (you). Kudos :)

I wish I could post mine but there is a couple of reasons why I can't. Although I use the same avatar at every single place (other than here) and the hands in my avatar here do resemble my own hands  :D

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 08, 2013, 01:30:31 AM

Bump.

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Geo on August 08, 2013, 11:30:40 AM

Quote from: JarlWolf on November 01, 2012, 03:05:46 AM

Me and my mustache were married back when I enlisted, back in 58.

Wow. You were already a veteran by the time hellhole stan came by?

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: gwillybj on August 08, 2013, 02:04:48 PM

'smee, SMACX-sized

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 08, 2013, 02:09:45 PM

;lol

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Unorthodox on August 08, 2013, 02:16:13 PM

2010.  At the time I thought it was the most extreme mask I'd ever built myself, what with wearing masks causing panic attacks as I think I'm suffocating.  Turned out to be most comfortable. 

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5vMt-C8AeBA/TqeKwhEgaRI/AAAAAAAAJx0/4LRB7ygwsq8/s800/IMG_5935.JPG)

Last years, now...there were several times I had to push away the panic.

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 08, 2013, 02:23:37 PM

I remember that one.  Burlap with some binding medium painted on, over a cast of your head?

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Unorthodox on August 08, 2013, 02:25:23 PM

Burlap and latex, yep.  Couldn't find a pic of just the cast of the head.  It's a horrible cast, but serviceable for a 'blank' to make masks. 

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Unorthodox on August 08, 2013, 02:29:18 PM

Ya know, I think I'm going to revisit that approach...sorta...

Didn't have a plan for this year, but THAT....

OOOOOoooo....I'ma sculpting TONIGHT! 

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Rusty Edge on August 08, 2013, 07:37:35 PM

I won't tell you which parts of it are accurate...

Title: Re: Self portraits
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 08, 2013, 07:53:19 PM

It would be rude for me to guess "glasses, hairline, grey" wouldn't it?

-Also, gwillybj's illegitimate father...