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Word Portraits of Famous Authors | Word art drawings, Typographic portrait, Typography portrait

Artist John Sokol makes portraits of famous authors using words from their writings to form images. Pictured above is William Faulkner with text from his novel The Sound and the Fury. Other portraits that you can see at the link include Walt Whitman, Eudora Welty, James Joyce, and John Keats. Link -via Dude Craft...

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Eye | Text art, Collage art, Art

This is a close up of the eye of a larger portrait of Sophie that I made between May 2010 and January 2011. The whole painting is made from poems which Sophie chose. They have personal significance to her and have therfore become part of her. The text was printed using a standard printer from a computer which was then dissected taking out the spacing between each line as it was applied. Using word software the tone on the text and its background was altered according to the part of the…

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This is a self portrait I made with words to describe myself. After drawing the face, I chose words that… | Portrait ideas art, Self portrait drawing, Word drawings

This is a self portrait I made with words to describe myself. After drawing the face, I chose words that best fit my character. Some words are written darker than others to indicate shadow/darker spots on the face or in the hairline. #words #wordart #drawing

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