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Published: 2012-11-16 16:20:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 49631; Favourites: 1368; Downloads: 0
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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.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 ).
"I love fools' experiments. I am always making them."
- Charles Darwin
Painted with Krita 2.7-Pre-alpha (in developpement) on Linux Mint KDE 13.
Charles Darwin on Wikipedia : [link]
Licensed under a CC-By-Nc-Nd : Reposting and usage of the artwork is free, allowed and encouraged, providing credits "Artwork : www.davidrevoy.com" but any usage of the artwork for commercial purposes or manipulations, derivations are strictly prohibited. Full license : [link] For commercial usage contact me.
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The upper part of the skull is a giant salamander?
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Looks like whale. Nice job, I bet Darwin would be a bit bemused!Β
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You're right, I was wrong, is a sperm whale.
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I stopped to see your work .... Not precisely by Darwin but by the mannerist style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo ... It is excellent, I congratulate you.
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Someone was ahead of Darwin, and he was religious.Β A 13th-Century Darwin?Β Tusi's Views on Evolution
www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/β¦
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"How the fuck do people do this shit, I tried to draw a tree yesterday and got so angry I had to lay down and count to ten." ~ Mattelliott1234 youtube comment
This picture is so awesome in the most literal form. When I see what I do and what I see you do I just get intimidated and angry. I'm sure you've felt the same when you started.Β
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Wow, This is SuperAwesome, You just read the book very well.
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Amazing picture, that is definitl one of the best pictures of Charles Darwi i`d ever seenΒ Β 
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I was an Evolution and Ecology major in college, so it comes as no surprise that Darwin is kind of like an idol of mine. The quote that you use is actually in my email signature as well.
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Amazing ! Yes, it makes me think to Arcimboldo but you keep your own style !
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Incredebile work, that is definitly one of the best pictures of Darwin i`d ever seen 
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hey, I really liked this picture, so I decided to use it as cover art for one of my mixsets!Β
Hope you don't mind!
www.mixcloud.com/upload/leandrβ¦
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Thank you !
As long it is for non-commercial usage and it display my name in the credit for the cover ; I'm happy with itΒ
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Amazing work, i think that is one of the most creative and beatifulst pictures that ever seen
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Don't know if you are going to read this comment, but your picture is so great that I would suggest you to submit to some t-shirt site. It would be awesome!
Take it as a compliment
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C'est magnifique, les couleurs rendent tellement bien... *-*
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Your art captures such meaning especially in this piece. I love how the animals make up his face and are branched off each other. Your creative use of the animals to fit different spaces are amazing.
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I just finished a class on Darwin and the development of his ideas. I think I'm going to send my professor a link to this because it's pretty awesome.
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This is beautifull! i've been looking for a perfect Darwin portrait to have in my work station (because I utterly admire him and he is the reason for me being an evolutionary biologist) and I think I just found it. Beautifull work! thnk you!
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Charles Darwin was a Christian at one point and even when he wasn't he still believed in God and concocted his theory with God in mind and never intended it to replaced Him.
If thats not irony I don't know what is
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It's not irony. God and evolution are not mutually exclusive, and when Darwin was alive, almost everyone was a Christian.
I'm an atheist, but I know Christians who believe in evolution. You'd be a fool to ignore the mountains of evidence evolution has built. It all comes down to how that first cell came to be.
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Haha, "mountains of evidence".
Thanks for the laugh today.
You evolutionists can't even produce a single transitional species and resort to hoaxes like "Lucy" and the "Nebraska Man".
This is great art, but I hope that Darwin is rotting in Hell for his lies.
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Fair enough
I am one of those Christians, evolution is truth. What is not true is what is essentially apocryphal evolution, such as humans came from apes and animals can change themselves over time.
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so what you're saying is that you actually don't believe in evolution and you're one of /those/ christians we all hate.
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No, on the other hand you do seem to be one of those anti-religion folks who we all hate
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When you use religion as an excuse for ignorance, yeah, I hate that.
You don't get to redefine science because it doesn't fit your beliefs. You can believe what you want, but don't say you believe in evolution if you don't actually understand what evolution is. That's like saying you're prochoice and adding all of these conditions on to it. (Ex. Abortion is okay but only if you got raped) It's an all or nothing thing. You believe in evolution, or you believe your holy book is a biology textbook.
I have literally no idea what you think evolution is if you don't believe animals can change over time.
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Way to put words in my mouth there. You may want to be more open-minded in the future
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Great man, good book and this is a fantastic painting as well!
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What an intelligent design!
Lmfao. Seriously nice dude.
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was there a clever pun somewhere in there?
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I just made this my desktop wallpaper... awesome job
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