Drawn Portraits by Tom Pokinko

Tag Archive: Black and White

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…
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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

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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06 Feb

Northrop Frye (literary critic) 2

Ink Wash & Pencil, 2007
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06 Feb

Carlos Fuentes (writer)

Pen & Ink, 2005 Sketched live during the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal “It is a misfortune that Mexican literature is not better known”
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06 Feb

Dany Laferriere (novelist, journalist)

Pen & Ink, 2005 Sketched live during the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal “I think it’s an incorrect analysis to state that Haiti is no longer in the minds…
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06 Feb

Ramona Koval (broadcaster, writer, journalist)

Ink & Pencil, 2005
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