Drawn Portraits by Tom Pokinko

Monthly Archive: February, 2012

27 Feb

Steve Jobs (businessman, inventor)

Digital, 2011 “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw…
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20 Feb

Whitney Houston (musician)

Digital, 2012
February 20, 2012 at 10:48 am 3 Comments
13 Feb

Robertson Davies (novelist, playwright, critic)

Ink & Digital, 2008 “I get awfully tired of people who talk about real life as though it had no relation to the life of the imagination and the life…
February 13, 2012 at 10:52 am Leave a comment
07 Feb

Leonard Cohen (poet, musician)

Digital, 2011 “You are trying to do one of the few things you barely know how to do … You are dealing with an almost unbreakable silence, and you’re grateful…
February 7, 2012 at 4:04 pm 2 Comments
07 Feb

Albert Einstein (scientist)

Digital, 2011 “I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.” ( * quote: Kevin Harris, Stanford) For a time lapse video of how I created this portrait, click here…
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07 Feb

Don Draper (TV character played by Jon Hamm)

Digital, 2011
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07 Feb

Barack Obama (US President)

Digital, 2011
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07 Feb

Bob Rae (politician)

Pen & Ink, 2010
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07 Feb

Michael Jackson (musician)

Pen & Ink, 2009
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06 Feb

Northrop Frye (literary critic)

Ink Wash & Pencil, 2007 “The axiom of criticism must be, not that the poet does not know what he is talking about, but that he cannot talk about what…
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