I love it when something I’m already working on matches up with Illustration Friday. The topic this week is “Portrait”. For those of you coming from Illustration Friday, check the last few day’s worth of posts and you’ll find I’ve been working on a small series of portraits of robots sporting facial hair. The unofficial title for this piece is “The Lonely Bachelor”.

I believe the technical name of this style is the “Franz Josef”, which is very similar to the “Friendly Muttonchops”, the only difference being a lack of hair on the upper cheek area, normally found in muttonchop styles. I sort of wish I had made these friendly muttonchops because with the accidental addition of the tiny glob of paint on the left side of the robot’s face, I could’ve referred to this as the “Lemmy”.

As always, it’s acrylic on a 2″ by 3″ piece of countertop sample.

Tags :: Illustration Friday, Painting