Portraits - a learning curve

**handrawn** · 29 April 2010, 08:29 AM

very nice gallery John

**zaphodeist** · 29 April 2010, 08:38 AM

Thank you Steve

**iamtheblues** · 29 April 2010, 04:46 PM

Great to see them all in one thread, John. A few suggestions, or even requests:
Phil Silvers, Yul Brynner, Patrick Stewart, Sinead O'Connor, Homer Simpson and to round off this theme of famous baldies, Aeschylus - the ancient Greek playwright who died about 500 BC when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his bonce. It is said that the eagle mistook the playwright's bald head for a rock.
Saludos,
Bob

**zaphodeist** · 29 April 2010, 05:05 PM

Thanks Bob - if I can find that photo of Aeschylus I had I'll have a go

Isn't he the one who had a Golden Ass?

**iamtheblues** · 29 April 2010, 05:40 PM

I've never seen him disrobed, John!

Saludos,
Bob.

**zaphodeist** · 29 April 2010, 06:05 PM

That's lucky cos I just checked and it was Apuleius after all!

Thanks for those hairless suggestions btw

**Soquili** · 29 April 2010, 06:08 PM

Very nice "Mary Poppins", John.

**Bill Broyles** · 29 April 2010, 06:38 PM

John your drawings are really an inspiration to me. I want to learn how to do this, and thought I could start by downloading one of yours, and "MESS" with it.

Well you can imagine the surprise when i loaded it and it was nearly all BLACK! How can I get it to look like yours(not ALL BLACK)???
What am I doing wrong? Or NOT doing right?
TIA Bill

**zaphodeist** · 29 April 2010, 07:59 PM

@ Bill 1 - thank you

@ Bill 2 - Hi, welcome to TG - thank you for the kind words. Some of the images are very black

Which one was it?

**Bill Broyles** · 29 April 2010, 09:29 PM

Well it turns out it was the way I downloaded the images. When I selected "save target as" in IE and then loaded with WE they are just fine.

I tried to drag and drop from another program, and for some reason it turned the images into very dark ones.

Now I have them and I'm off to trying to duplicate HOW you created them.

Thanks again for the neat drawings...

Regards,
Bill