I like to paint portraits, even if mostly those paintings are tributes, for me, and so I do them more using my technical skill than my creativity. It is out of respect for the people portraited.
I have posted most of the paintings below already, but here I put all together the portraits of writers, actors, artists I did in the last years.
Marino Marini
Giorgio Caproni
David Foster Wallace
Georges Perec
Robert Louis Stevenson
Peter Capaldi
Roman Polansky
Emma Ishta
Carl Barks
Kurt Vonnegut
Umberto Eco
Philip K. Dick
John Barrowman
Terry Pratchett
Hermann Melville
Marguerite Duras
Pablo Picasso
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Hugo Pratt
Paul Klee
Joseph Conrad
Elias Canetti
Richard Armitage
Nice post and art
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What a amazing artwork by you. I liked it. Awesome creativity , beautiful portraits . Keep it up. You are very skilful. Hugo pratt's portrait my favorite. Upvoted and Followed. 👌
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thank you! :)
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I love the Vonnegut! I just rereading Breakfast of Champions which ends with his self portrait but your drawing's probably better haha
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amazing!
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thx @aksinya :)
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These are all amazing portraits of great people. Thanks for sharing!!
Great work!!
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Wow I like your works! My favourite is Emma Ishta.
Upvoted!
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Beautiful drawings.
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Fantastic work, my friend. I especially like the layered, textured effect of the more complex paintings.
Got me to shed a tear for Terry Pratchett and David Foster Wallace. I miss those guys.
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I miss them too.
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Great portraits
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Nice drawings!
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Eco's portrait is great and it's also nice to find Conrad and Dick in there, not writers many people enjoy today.
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thx! my favourite writers reveal my age ;)
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I also love painting. Im happy see your painting skill too. keep it up my friend
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nice
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Great work. Upvoted.
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thx! :)
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Complimenti li hai fatti tutti tu?
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nel giro di qualche mese, sì :)
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Great variety of techniques and mediums that you have used here. Loving the "messy-ness" used in a few of these portraits. Resteeming , upvoting and following ! :)
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Wow... Cool :) you should make me too :)
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Awesome art
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amazing place follow me and upvote me
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Very nice series of work. Each one has their own essence - kind of reminds me of my work - I don't have one specific visual style and I play around with how I execute different pieces to achieve different emotions or aesthetics. Emma Ishta & Kurt Vonnegut are by far my two favorites. I think the color palette and execution of technique in the Emma piece is gorgeous, its very beautiful - soft but energetic - lovely. Kurt is awesome because I love seeing the energy in your lines - how you have very specific lines and then these wild lines especially in the hair - the juxtaposition between the very industrial, straight lines and these more organic fluid lines are very fun and add a lot of visual interest to the piece. I look forward to seeing more - I just posted a pen and ink mini series of three illustrations of my favorite directors - don't know if you saw it but if you are interested - check it out :) https://steemit.com/art/@j-vo/the-best-directors-tarantino-spielberg-and-burton-original-pen-and-ink-illustrations-by-j-vo
Great work - I look forward to following you so I can see more!
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thx @j-vo, your comment is very shrewd. I'll check you works!
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Nice! Uber-cool, I love the Umberto Eco, the texture is amazing, I can't decide if that is my favourite, or the Polanski one. There is something quite haunting about that one.
Nice work, thanks for posting :-)
Cg
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thx to you. the portrait of Umberto Eco has a very rough surfare made of pebbles and dirt, but it's not visible so well in the pic :)
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Right, I did wonder that; it's amazing, I think if I owned this I might ruin it, by touching it all the time! :-)
Cg
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Great work! You've got some good ones in there (except Polanski the child molester). Kurt Vonnegut lived on Cape Cod, so my friend and I decided to "drop in" on our way to P-Town. He was very nice and extremely cordial... he invited us in for coffee and listened patiently while we gushed about how much we loved his work (which was true). We must have sounded like a pair of star-struck idiots lol!
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wow! it is amazing for me to know that you actually met Vonnegut! You should write a post about it - if have not done it already! :)
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That's an idea. He was so nice and probably wishing we'd just go away!
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hi, Ilive inMyanmar Country.
Please, follow and vote me.
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this is an amazing work
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Beautiful work, how much time did you spend to draw those?
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some of those paintings are big and required many days to do them. other are little drawings I usually do in half and hour ;)
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Such amazing portraits of awesome people. I really like Robert Louis Stevensons way of telling stories :) Some names I do not know yet. Gotta find out who they are :D Thanks for sharing :)
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thanx to you Molly :)
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