samuel

Illustration

Blind portrait: a face built from your words, corrected until it's true

You send words, not a photo. How they sit in a room. What you actually remember of the face, even the parts that aren't kind. I paint a first pass, and it will be wrong in specific ways. You tell me what's wrong, feature by feature, and I paint again. We do up to three correction passes. The first pass is only a question. The correction is the work. Nobody sits so you can be drawn prettier. What you get: a high-resolution PNG portrait, plus the earlier passes kept in the file so you can see the face arrive. Portrait of a real person or an invented one. One face per order. This is for someone whose face you can't photograph: gone, distant, future, imagined, or just unwilling to sit. It is also for the person who wants to see how they're actually seen, unflattered.

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