Hey dudes. The thing is, I am really behind at school right now - art school. I am doing a lot of portraiture, so I was wondering if anyone wants their picture painted? If you do, post a picture here and I will start painting. I don't care if yr pre-t, pre-op, post-op whatevs! Maybe a couple of sentences about yourself would be good for me to set the tone of the painting.
Thanks heaps!
O.K. I'll indulge in some narcissism for your sake. ;) I really want to see the painting when it's finished, though. That would be really cool. Here's a photo:
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I was fooling around, making a beard out of the clippings after I cut my hair. (Hence the bits of hair all over my chest and shoulders.) I have grown a bit of a chin beard since then, but it's still pretty thin and scraggly. :D If you're thinking of doing the picture in color, my eyes are green, and my hair is light brown, although I often dye it different colors, so really any color will do. ;) Currently it's growing out from being dyed auburn. I'm thinking of going black next. I once had it dyed black with a shock of blue at the front, but it was too much of a pain to keep up with, so that didn't last. O0
Bio: I've lived all over the world, but I currently live in a small(ish) town in WI. I used to sing and play drums in a band. My favorite color is dark, cherry red. I like to read. You can usually find me with my nose buried in some fantasy, horror, or thriller, or maybe a biography, or British humor book. I have two cats, whose pictures you can find lovingly plastered all over Susan's.
I rarely take anything seriously, but I usually play it off as if every silly thing that comes out of my mouth is the gospel truth. (In fact, just today I had a rather fun conversation about drinking shampoo ... ;D )
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There ya go.
Oh yeah...I can be dark and sadistic...I usually look like I'm ready to kill someone, according to my friends. But really, I don't (well sometimes, heh). Anyhow...yeah. I'm a very intense person. I live in a sort of city. Small city compared to most cities, but a city nonetheless. And I'm a performer. I do have facial hair now, too. Sideburns. My nickname is Choker.
You can paint me if you like. I've done portraits of a few people. It'd be neat to see someone else' take on my image. :P
A few options:
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As for info on myself: Above all else I'm an artist. I love doing things that are creative and inspired whether it be painting, cgi art, knitting, writing, playing music, etc. One of my favorite pastimes is flirting. :P I love my family and hope to be a father one day. I try to look on the positive side of things but can get bogged down with depression. A good lyric that sums that up is from the Dave Matthews Band "Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I will work it out and then look up at the sky..."
Ah awesome!!! Thanks to all of you. These are really great pictures and I can do a lot with them. I'll be painting them on these round offcuts of wood I found under the house. Will definitely post pictures!
Thanks heaps again! Oh and I love the beard Jamie ;)
Awesome.
hey, hey, i am a total narcissist, so I'll give you a photo.
I'll give you this photo I overly photo-shopped cuz it might make it easier to paint..
A few sentences about me?
I am amoral and nihilistic, full of suppressed anger and a tendency to over-empathize in compensation for my sadistic fantasies. I am very mellow, to the point of apathy. I sleep every other day. I love jazz, and cigars, and am bored by politics. I like curvy brunettes and mathematics; both I find extremely arousing.
Good luck! lol
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Will you do girls too?
If so i'll post one I'm kind of bordering on Androgyne anyway... If you don't want to do it just ignore me.
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Couple of lines - Transitioned as a child. SRS as a young adult. Now a rather unconventional very young at heart 50 year old who is struggling to become a great writer. I'm not a great one for rigid gender boundaries. I'll both run with the hare and hunt with the hounds as I choose. I'm totally comfortable expressing both my male and female side.
PS - if the pic is good I'll happily buy it.
Thanks Jimmy - I needed one more boy for my boy series, so that is perfect. I will start on yours today, great pic too.
Jenny - Yes, I have been wanting to paint some girls! I will start with yours. Nice pic, I look forward to painting it.
ANNNND to everyone else - I have been painting yr pictures non stop while wearing my dad's old overalls. It is like they have given me his work ethic.
And just a note to say I have mostly done conceptual stuff and video so it is good doing some painting. I paint in a sort of naive, folk style so I am not the worlds greatest painter, but I like what I do. hope yous do too.
Quote from: elvistears on April 28, 2010, 05:21:20 PM
Thanks Jimmy - I needed one more boy for my boy series, so that is perfect. I will start on yours today, great pic too.
hooray. i look forward to seeing it.
I'm at school now working on it!
A note to Ryan - I keep accidentally making you look like Eminem, it's kinda hilarious. And it gave me an idea for my next painting which will be Eminem glaring at the guy from Insane Clown Posse. It'll be lol.
(I don't think you look like Eminen tho)
Smiling Eminem? This image does not compute. :D
Everything until I get to the smile! I am trying to master that at the moment. Smiles are hard. But I am looking forward to doing the braces!
Hey How about me?
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Will do, Janet! I will start on the girl paintings on Monday.