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Duracel · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:42 am

Some Germans around here may know him, Max, an upcoming german musician who's casted by StefanRaab(TVTotal) to take part in the german-preselection for the european song contest.(so there's a good chance all europeans will see him in a while Wink

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Well, his (imho)phenomenal voice inspired me to paint this caricature.

It's my first caricature except a self-caricature i did some time ago.
So well, the different references i had weren't always as good. 3 low-res videos and some medium-res Pictures from a website.
- You can see some of them further down.

It's painted in Photoshop7 (3092*1600px) - except an initial very rough pencil-sketch and a texture-overlay from a scanned carving-board where i sliced bread on all my life only to use it in this picture. ;D

intermediate step: http://www.duracel.de/stuff/art/paintings/04-max-b.jpg

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neff · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:28 am

nice pic, i like the strokes...

but he`s so damn ugly with that eyebrows.. uargs!
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Matthew · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:59 pm

haha yea beautiful Duracel, totally my favourite piece from you I love this one. Smile

I like the idea with the carving board too, you are even making art when you slice bread. Smile

Keep it up dura
Matthew

Sumaleth · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 4:25 pm

That's excellent.
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fae · member Member # Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 93

incredible piece - it's really well done.

love the texture and style you did it in.

in terms of characture - i dunno, imho, (and my humble opinion is very lacking here), it seems they take traits from the person and overemphasize them - yet looking at the characture really really brings out the person's characteristics/personality. i dunno about the shaping of his face, for that, but the piece itself is incredible =D kudos
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Duracel · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:28 am

Thx all

Yeah, the carving-board idea seems to be a good one, right? Wink

Well, in terms of caricature ... i only can tell, people know him recognize him at first glance, but that only means its not a "bad" caricature, but still noone said "its him, its him, absolutely stunnig, you've got him down to a T" - so i still have to learn a lot about thinking in caricatures i guess. Wink

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gLitterbug · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:31 am

I instantly recognized him as Max, so I guess you did some good work Wink

One thing that bothers me though is the corner on his right cheek side, imo that area should be alot more rounded.

P.S.: He might have a great voice, but Bonita would�ve probably had alot of more chance at the song-contest, caus Max's presentation is for ass and I bet that surely comes into play more than the german voters thought. Then I guess Germany wouldn�t have liked a black girl representing them anyways, no matter how good she was. Well maybe they can get Max to split his unibrow and do something with his hair.

fae · member Member # Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 93

yeh maybe that's true - but i still think you did a great job =) keep it up - show us more =)
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Nazarov · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:19 pm

He sure is ugly.. I hope he's a good singer Very Happy

or atleast has "inner-beauty".
Nice work ..dass gefelts mir - or how do u say it Razz