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Yuletide signups so far:
3 requests for Frederician RPF, 2 offers
2 requests for Circle of Voltaire RPF, 3 offers !! :D :D

(I am so curious as to who the third person is!)

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From:

mildred_of_midgard

I have never drawn a monkey or seen one up close! This will be... interesting.

Wouldn't want you to be bored!

Seriously, anything you draw will be awesome, but if you ask for suggestions

with the death mask as a reference

I did notice the nose in the death mask is rather more prominent than in the portraits! I could see toning it down a bit. Plus which, I don't think he sat for many portraits, so being mean to the artists is a little unfair, lol. (As Voltaire would point out, you have to stop talking, and that's hard. :P)

From:

prinzsorgenfrei

The article was less mean to the artists (only to some copies which were preeetty bad) and more mean to Fritz :'D I mean, I get it, sometimes you gotta be mean to Fritz, but I don't even think his nose was THAT ugly... From an artistic point of view I definitely like it better than the forehead cotinuing nose Menzel has going on in the illustrated biography. My personal favourite part of the article was "He is looking rather cute in this painting too, even though we can conclude from this and this that he was not pretty in his youth either and his nose should have already been Like That"
My dude. He is TWO YEARS OLD in this painting, what was Pesne supposed to do!? I am pretty sure that his face changed a little between 2 and 74 :'D

Speaking of painting, an update from the Fredersdorf front: I fucked up big time and now I have to redo the entire face because I'm a dumbass who thought "Hm, this tone doesn't look right, let's go over it with a transparent layer" when not all tones were laid down yet and the colour was actually correct in context. So then he was half orange and then I didn't manage to get the right colour again and now I've painted over everything below the eyes which makes it look like he's wearing some creepy facemask and I am about ready to a) cry, b) burn everything I've made and c) condemn acrylic paints to hell where they belong :'D
The next piece I make is gonna be in anything but acrylic, I feel like I could do better by glueing together last week's newspapers than by painting skin in acrylic.

From:

mildred_of_midgard

The article was less mean to the artists (only to some copies which were preeetty bad) and more mean to Fritz :'D

Ahhh. Okay, that makes more sense.

I mean, I get it, sometimes you gotta be mean to Fritz, but I don't even think his nose was THAT ugly...

Gotta admit, my first reaction when I saw the death mask was, "Wow, I can see why that doesn't make it into the portraits." :P

Incidentally, EC's favorite picture of him, still hanging in Schonhausen, has a very nearly forehead-continuing nose in profile, that, if you ask me, looks equally unattractive, just in a different way, lol.

Look, all the visitors agreed that his eyes were his best feature, and even the intense stare we've figured out was at least 50% frantic compensation for severe nearsightedness. :D

"Hot or not" reports are an important part of our fandom! Fortunately, they were also extremely important to envoys and other travelers in a pre-photography age.

My dude. He is TWO YEARS OLD in this painting, what was Pesne supposed to do!? I am pretty sure that his face changed a little between 2 and 74 :'D

Lol, omg. Yeah, that's kind of the whole point of a baby face!

Speaking of painting, an update from the Fredersdorf front: I fucked up big time and now I have to redo the entire face because I'm a dumbass who thought "Hm, this tone doesn't look right, let's go over it with a transparent layer" when not all tones were laid down yet and the colour was actually correct in context.

Even your mistakes are so advanced my unartistic self can only half follow the explanation! Color me impressed, and patiently anticipating the finished product (and still very much admiring the dogs, although not to a degree that leads me to get yelled at,

cahn. ;) Quota has been met for today!)

From:

cahn

My dude. He is TWO YEARS OLD in this painting, what was Pesne supposed to do!?

hahahaha! Yeah.

Speaking of painting, an update from the Fredersdorf front

Aw, I'm sorry it's so frustrating! Like mildred I have no art background and can barely follow, but I get the "it was right and now it is screwed up!" thing and :((((( Of course please do other mediums if it's less frustrating for you -- we want you to have a happy time doing these :) But I'm sure it will be amazing when it's done!

Also, I love your icon :D