I’ve been drawing portraits for strangers over at Your Face for a good while now. I uploaded Portrait No. 362 earlier today and as the sun has momentarily appeared again and itunes just opted to serenade me with The Clash, what better time to celebrate with a little competition.
This is your chance to skip the queue and get your portrait drawn next. I’ve also got a few things hanging around that might make a worthwhile prize so here’s the deal…
What you have to do:
Leave a comment on this post with an idea of how I should draw your portrait – See Your Face for ideas of the type of things we’re talking about. Basically the weirdest or funniest idea for how I can deface your portrait wins. If you’ve always wanted to know what you would look like riding side saddle on the back of Margaret Thatcher or how you would look if you were born with knives and forks instead of teeth this could your best chance.
What you get:
Yours will be the next face I draw
A print of your portrait
Live Fast Dye Young or Jesus – Hide & Seek Champion Screenprint
Your Face Tea Towel
Your Face Zine No.2
A random selection of pin badges.
I’ll pick some runners up that will get their portraits drawn and a tea towel for their trouble.
Tags: Portrait
Ok, I’ll definitely give it a shot….. as a girl I’d love to have a moustache on my portrait & I’d be riding my dog, who would look more like a llama, & his tail would be a moustache as well! : D
I think, my face should be drawn with eyes like cats, spaguetti and bologna hair and I would like to have the neck as a log of a tree with birdies and all
THANK YOU Damien…I hope to win!!! yay!
ola damien
i want to be a mickey handed cactus
kamon choose me.
cheers
what about a kapibara disecting my skull, meanwhile, bees, candy and the spirit of hot fudge goes out from my eyes and my snake tonge tries to fight them disguised as inspector closeu from the pink panther, with a fractal background alex grey style
You already draw my face, it was a really good one. I really appreciated your work.
http://yourfaceblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/camilo-face-276.html
It would be unfair if I took out the opportunity from other people of getting their face drawed… But if would be nice if you redraw me getting inspiration from another picture, and draw me like a “metalhead” with ancient god looks, sort of scandinavian metalhead god of war in a post modern-apocalyptic bucholic environment!!!
Excellent work!!!
quetzal: nice work. I like it. Though you are maybe overestimating my talents!
Keep them coming.
My husband treats me like a supremely pampered goddess. Clearly I need a head portrait that reflects that reality (when I say this I see something that combines a goddess (I’ve always enjoyed the Norse gods) and a Siamese cat, however since I’m actually not an artist at all I also hesitate to even make suggestions to someone who is!).
I’ve always been curious what I would look like if I was dressed in a hot dog costume while bungee jumping tandem with a flamboyantly dressed Conan O’Brien while Jay Leno and the Hamburgler stand by looking horrified. You know you’ve been thinking about it too.
Tor is the norse god of thunder, he had a charriot pulled by two rams across the skies. I would like you to draw me riding my charriot, only the rams are naked women (with horns), throwing thunderbolts at a scurrying crowd of people below. It would make my day, Sir. I sendt You My pic AGES ago, is it lost in the tango or something? Do you need me to send it again?
Although it is in poor taste (but isn’t poor taste even better than good taste, anyway?) I would love to be depicted as a seal (possibly human head, seal body) about to be clubbed by the classic, stereotypical, happy beer-drinking Canadian. Don’t worry, I am Canadian through and through so I’m allowed to make comments like these.
I see you’ve spotted the severe shortage of seal clubbing drawings in my back catalogue.
Me with the body of a walrus and the head of a sea lion. Or the body of an egret and the head of a meercat. Or the head of a monkey… antlers like a deer, aaaand the body of a porcupine.
If I remember correctly, I sent a picture of myself counting brain cells (i.e. finger up my nose). How’s about, my eye squeenched (on the side my finger’s probing). Then, out of the opposite side ear, my brain popping out and the tip of my finger exposed…
My face is mounted (as in taxidermy) and hanging on the wall of a run-down mobile home, surrounded by various other oddities, knick knacks and tchotchkes. Someone has handicrafted antlers out of twigs and mounted them on my head. There are knitting needles in my hair, which has been woven into a very attractive afghan that is flowing down luxuriantly. My eyes have been replaced by mismatched beer bottle caps, and I’m clenching a pipe in my teeth, which is lit. The smoke curling away has taken the shape of my dead father, who bore an eerie resemblance to a Mexican bandito velvet oil painting he used to have hanging in his living room. There are birds roosting on my antlers, which are limed with bird dung. One of my antlers is being used as a toilet paper dispenser, the other has a nest containing cigarette butts and ash. Around my neck is a scarf printed with piano keys, and pinned with a “Visualize whirled peas” button.
A pinata with small blindfolded kids hitting the colorful body with bats.
So my husband is a Chemical Scientist… and I would love to give him something funny for him to have at the lab like me being a molecule of some kind inside one of those glass tubes, or many tiny faces of me… sort of like clones, or maybe many faces of me in different colors… please!!!! I sent my pic a long time ago, does that mean if I don’t win I might still get it done some day?
I am a metal-lady.
Waving from the Lido deck of The Love Boat, with Gopher and Isaac nearby.
My head or ‘face’ is always in the clouds. I want to be in the clouds. Lounging around on fluffy and nice clouds with classical music composers sernading my serene laziness. Yeah, the point? Sorry, no extravagant ideas. Sometimes simplicity is weird and cooky too.
I would like one with a close hand like if it where my head.
I would love to be a lion tamer in a bunny suit.
Hello
I have always loved words so it would be very cool if you drew my portrait and every strand of my hair upon close inspection was actually a word and its’ definition. If the words were musical terms it would be even cooler. Just a thought. Love your blog.
–Dana
Draw me popping out of a piece of sushi being devoured by tiny godzilla minions.
I would like chocolate chips instead of freckles.
I would like you to draw me as a koala or red Panda clawing my way out of a sharks mouth, reaching out to a regular panda for help but our claws just barely touching. blood or no blood.
I look like Ben Elton gone to seed, whereas in my head I’ve something of the easy charm of Cliff Michelmore nonchalantly picking at a Peach Melba in a Berni Steak House in 1970s Hayward’s Heath. Quite how this helps you I’ve frankly no idea. I don’t expect I’ll win.
I’d like to have rings around my head like Saturn. Maybe my head could be floating in space as part of an entire solar system diagram. My ears could be satellite dishes, or maybe a space ship could be about to land on my nose. It might be fun to be explored by little green men.
I hope you haven’t done that one yet! I don’t remember seeing it, but I might be senile.
You could draw me senile.
Your site is awesome!
–Ellen
I want my drawing to be a stroke-by-stroke recreation of the caricature I got at Epcot in 1985.
The picture I sent you is a bit outdated, as now I have Buddy Holly-esque glasses (I can send an updated picture so you can see them in all their nerdy glory). Naturally, I think to capture my true essence, I should be drawn in a panda/bear suit playing checkers with Rivers Cuomo.
Just an idea.
I’m a law student… I think you should draw me as lady justice being choked by the scales.
or.. you know… with myself stuffed inside a sardine can
whichever works for you
As a fox in the scope of a gun, one hand clutching a copy of Dianetics and the other clutching an omnibus copy of Hubbard’s sci fi writings
I love junk food. A lot. So I’d like to be drawn with with the little candy hearts for teeth, a fruit rollup for a mouth, cheese curlz for hair, etc.
please could you reincarnate my portrait as a smurf, a jack in the box or even the mona lisa!
=D
I’ve got two different colored eyes, honey brown and almost black. I’ve always wondered what I’d look like with, say, pink and chartreuse. Something ridiculous. To continue the theme, there should be no normal colors whatsoever on my portrait. Everything should be wrong. Ever draw the sky purple and the grass red? Kind of like that.
I’ve always wanted to know how I’d look if I had penguins living in my hair. Having a party. With confetti and party hats.
Also, I sent my photo ages ago, should I send it again?
I envision you drawing me with the top of my head cut off so you can only see the brain similar to the victims of Sylar from the show Heroes. Sounds grotesque but that’s not exactly the style I’m looking for.
I want the drawing to show the two hemispheres of the brain because my blog is called “The Corpus Callosum” – Where left and right brains unite. You can add your own comdeic twist as you please….
heyy, it would be great if i was a great white shark fighting another great white shark and preferably that shark would look like a young bob dylan, this would really make me lol, and i should definitely be the shark thats winning the fight
Damien, you are the bee’s knees
Draw me like I was hit by a double decker bus
I’d love to be drawn as an anglerfish. They might just be as weird as me
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I think I’d like to be drawn as the Mad Hatter, perhaps riding rabbit. Or on the other hand, some intersting take on Winnie the Poo.
I’d really like to be drawn like Ewan McGregor Obi Wan mid cutting Darth Maul in half
Hi, my face would be an broken egg on the top with a chick that goes out and an earthworm through my ear to feed it.
sorry for my english 
I love your work !
Since I teach photo & art- I could be made up of:
art materials
children’s faces
camera parts
OR…
maybe my face as target practice for kids
a mom doing everything-cleaning, cooking,teaching, etc
me as a superhero
me drawn in- artist style- cubism,pop art,surrealism(with melting face),
You know the bit in the Alice in wonderland book where she gets incredibly tall and her neck gets so long that a bird thinks she is a snake?
“she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found; all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her… [she] was delighted to find that her neck would bend about in any direction, like a serpant.”
I know it’s not an original idea of my own, but I think a picture of my head erupting from a leafy canopy on an extensive neck, while an alarmed pigeon flies past would look pretty hot.
i would like to be a cow. not just any cow though, a zombie cow who is also flying through space. with udders too. and maybe a fedorah. but thats optional.
that i think would be extra special.
Thanks!
I will love get my face with the body of a soccer player withe the tshirt of Mexico national soccer tema, I will love that.
Thank you and I will wait
I would like to see myself drawn as Splinter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He was so wise and furry. What a cool dude.
OR maybe a combo on Splinter and Mr. Peanut. Which would just be Splinter with a Cane, Monocle, and Top Hat.
hella damien … draw my face with something plastic theme (PETbottle, recycling plastic-parody), or maybe attack of some graphic software on my face
(and srry for my bad grama, i´m not english speaking)
I’d like to be a half shaven/waxed Bigfoot, 1 side being a full-on big foot hairy monster Chubacker-like and the other side silky smooth with the exception of my eyebrow of course
You know you can’t resist drawing bigfoot it’s your weakness and I have shamefully took advantage of that fact , and if that ploy doesn’t work then I have some geniune bigfoot fur I found on a bush in the woodlands while hiking through the North East of England, it smells a little musty but thats nothing a little febreeze won’t fix.
Being as I cannot grow any amount of facial hair, I’ve always wanted a beard. A giant ferocious manly beard.
My beard could possibly be so large that it sprouts a redwood forest.