Beethoven Caricature: What do you think?

[Frederico Rogeiro]

Preston, thanks a lot!
Bom dia, Philip! There are many opinions it´s best to ignore, but others is good to consider, because they make us try to improve and add sense to our work. Honestly I think we don't choose to ignore them or not, we just can choose to listen them or not, and I do.
I'll certainly continue!

[Megan]

Preston, thanks a lot!
Bom dia, Philip! There are many opinions it´s best to ignore, but others is good to consider, because they make us try to improve and add sense to our work. Honestly I think we don't choose to ignore them or not, we just can choose to listen them or not, and I do.
I'll certainly continue!

What is the purpose of distorting features? And if you would ignore negative views, then why flag your drawings up here?
To my mind, they are as hideous as face paintings, I can never understand why people want to do that.

By face painting I mean like this:-











I see you have your own website and have promoted your work on other sites.


http://www.intpforum.com/showthread.php?p=187978


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[Bonn1827]

..and these forums have banned the works in question because this is, after all, a commercial endeavour on otherwise uncommercial sites!! I agree that selling or promoting things should be kept off forums such as this. Peter/Chris take note.

[Frederico Rogeiro]

Bonn, we don't need false arguments to discuss this, so I will make this correction.
When you say "these forums have banned the works in question" you are being very inaccurate. You can consider my presentation merely commercial, wich is arguable, but respectable, but you can't say others banned me for that, because that happened I would say in less than 5% of the cases.
The same thing I can say to Megan. You don't need to make up what never happened. I never said I ignore negative views. And if you don't like distorting figures, why do you have a distorted figure on your avatar?

[Sorrano]

What is the purpose of distorting features? And if you would ignore negative views, then why flag your drawings up here?
To my mind, they are as hideous as face paintings, I can never understand why people want to do that.

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What is the purpose of expressionism, pointillism, and other methods of presenting one's impression and thoughts upon various subjects? This may be an issue of utilizing various methods of expression to convey ideas or, as you have intimated, it may just be a commercial endeavor. But do not forget the artistry and methodology in presenting ideas.

[Quijote]

I agree totally with Sorrano (because he sent me 50$ to say so on this forum). Seriously, I must take exception to Megan on her posting above, and this in the spirit of "academic" disinterestedness.