portrait of Charles Darwin
This is a personnal tribute. I started studying more about Charles Darwin carreer and impact on science while reading "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. Good book.
So, I wanted to paint a portrait, using many species as brushes, ordering them in pseudo branching... and I failed to be consistent or exact about branching and decided to fall into more a sort of symbolic branching. Art have this advantage to keep a part of poetry.
"I love fools' experiments. I am always making them." ~ Charles Darwin
Still, the task was hard, and a real puzzle game with many rules of color values and colors temperature to respect to keep contributing to the global portrait. Certainly better could be made but I decided to stop detailing it or fixing it. I didn't want to start loosing energy of stokes and first intention.
Note : It ended to a familiar rendering like the famous portraits of Giuseppe Arcimboldo ( I loved those portrait in my childhood, not really now, maybe they came back unconsciously ).
Painted with Krita 2.7 on Linux Mint KDE 13.
Links:
Charles Darwin on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
2025-04: Sources available here and update for a more permissive license (from CC-By-Nc-Nd to CC-By)
