voilà. the wonderful J.

I already made portraits of people that I know in the past. but in a more sketchy way (and often with a pen). this gives you the possibility to concentrate mainly on the characteristic lines. it is like outlining and capturing the essence of a person. but, when you take the there-is-no-such-thing-as-details-path everything changes. it occurred to me that it is quite particular to make such a portrait of someone you know.

let’s compare it with a game situation. you play it online with lots of people you don’t know in rl (yeah, real life). so you have the possibility to imagine a lot of things concerning their characters, even if they are completely different. like: maybe he owns a cat farm or he must definitely wear those incredibly skinny jeans and then, there are sometimes people you know in rl and there is not much room for imagination. how does this translates into painting someone? if you have no idea about somebody’s facial expression and you haven’t the purpose that she/ he recognizes herself/ himself, you can do whatever you want and change things as you want them to be. but if you know the person, well, you stick to every little thing. even a tiny millimeter seems like a mile…