David Johnson - The Portrait King
I believe it was after he reached his 50th portrait in less than a month that David Johnson earned the title of "Portrait King" among us here in the office (and who knows, maybe one day in the world!). David has been whittling his way through authors, artists, actors, scholars, scientists, philosophers, and more to make over 75 portraits to date. Considering he only really started this project January 16 of this year and its only Feb 10th (only 26 days), thats about portraits a day.
When I asked David about this, he said it started out as advice to his students that he in turn began to do. He also said that he is now reaching a point where he can make a nearly perfect portrait at the first shot.
Well than, below is part of the massive collection of delicately drawn portraits; it's a smorgasbord of beards, mustaches, bushy eyebrows, wrinkles faces, and wispy hairs each noodling with personality.
To keep updated, follow David on Facebook. Also, I am pretty sure he is open to suggestions.
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William Carlos Williams |
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Stedhal |
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Gustave Flaubert |
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Frank Baum |
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Joan Didion |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Eudora Welty |
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Goethe |
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Sir Walter Scott |
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Balzac |
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P G Wodehouse |
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Blake |
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J M Barrie |
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Edith Wharton |
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Katherine Anne Porter |
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Roald Dahl |
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Voltaire |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Samuel Beckett |
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Ralph W Emerson |
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Dumas |
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Tolkien |
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John Steinbeck |
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Lytton Strachey |
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Knut Hamsun |
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Woolf |
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Bulwer-Lytton |
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Trollope |
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R L Stevenson |
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Washington Irving |
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Borges |
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Longfellow |
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Matthew Arnold |
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Victor Hugo |
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Charles Dickens |
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Samuel Johnson |
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Kafka |
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Mary Renault |
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Byron |
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Pablo Neruda |
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Tolstoy |
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Flannery O'Connor |
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Karl May |
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Thomas Mann |
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Guy De Maupassant |
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Pushkin |
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Georgette Heyer |
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Nancy Mitford |
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James Joyce |
These portraits are awesome. Such gorgeous linework!
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