Sunday, 12 July 2009

Top Five Monsters So Far

I'd be interested to know which are your favourite portraits so far. Leave your top five in the comments on this post, numbered 1 to 5 and at the end of the week I'll tally up the results and announce the top five. I'll put all the names of people who leave comments in a hat and send out an envelope of Franks to the winner as an incentive to get voting.

Posted by Coop at 02:06

10 comments:

  1. Wings129512 July 2009 at 13:36

    Wow... So hard to choose JUST five. But, I went through and picked the first five that really jumped out at me:

    Gallery 6
    Lee Healey, UK (www.freelance-cartoonist.com)

    Gallery 11
    S.W. Miller, Portage, USA
    http://swimmingupstreamcomic.blogspot.com/

    Gallery 13
    Lee Healey, UK
    www.freelance-cartoonist.com

    Gallery 31
    Steffen Gumpert, Berlin, Germany
    www.steffengumpert.com

    Gallery 39
    "Monta" by Brian Demeter, Williamsburg, USA (acrylic on illustration board)
    www.briandemeter.com/

    So, there you go. I like so many of them, it is really hard to pick. Ask me tomorrow, and there might be a different five. hahahaha!

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  2. Coop12 July 2009 at 14:26

    Thanks Wings for setting the ball rolling, you obviously dig the humourous portraits, all by professional illustrators too which is interesting. I'm gonna give 5 marks for the favourite on each person that votes through to 1 mark for their 5th place portrait. Any chance you can put them in order for me, I know it's tough but it'll make tallying up easier.

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  3. Dracenea12 July 2009 at 20:58

    I seriously can't limit it to five. I tried. I promise!

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  4. chocolategirl6413 July 2009 at 06:45

    Oh that's harsh ~ here's my selection .... for today *in order of preference*
    gallery 27 ~ keith a buchholz
    gallery 10 ~ max (age 9)
    gallery 47 ~ richard martinez
    gallery 53 ~ warwick johnson cadwell
    gallery 53 ~ david barneda

    .... btw you didn't say anything about voting for yourself muaha

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  5. Mr. Cavin14 July 2009 at 02:24

    With so many interesting Franks to look at, well, I also thought this was a particularly difficult decision to make. I only managed to reduce my faves to five by imposing further rules: I mostly dropped humor (but not whimsy), and also left out representations of Karloff. I’m not proud. The list I ended up with rewards a certain originality of vision by sadly snatching similar rewards from those who have tinkered with the popular construct--something that I also find a lot of value in. But them's the breaks.

    Number favorite: Flesh by Tina Sweep (gallery 36)
    Number Second: Untitled by Steve Brown (gallery 9)
    Number middle: Tattoo Frankie by Liat Miller (gallery 16)
    Number penultimate: Frankie of My Dreams by C. Streeter (Camcas) (gallery 29)
    Number last: Untitled by David Baum (gallery 10)
    ...aaand number hono(u)rable mention: Untitled by Gram (gallery 3)

    Thank you for this opportunity and the awesome website. I think you are going to discover, mathematically, that coming up with a statistical “top five,” using this points assignment method, will be a lot more possible if you ask us all to come up with a "top fifteen" for the raw data next time. I predict you are going to have an awful lot of entries tied with five points in the final analysis.

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  6. Coop14 July 2009 at 11:31

    Mr Cavin, Tina Sweep's portrait is stunning, it looks even better in the flesh and would be in my top five too, possibly top of the heap. I think you are right about the voting, there probably is gonna be a five way tie unless a lot of you vote. I think I will leave the vote open a little longer.

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  7. Anonymous16 July 2009 at 22:14

    Sorry to say that I am very distracted from this portrait. Because it creates terrific situation and I am very afraid of this protrait.

    justice

    Free Satelite Tv

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  8. Wings129517 July 2009 at 09:47

    Here is my order, from 1 to 5:

    Gallery 6
    Lee Healey, UK (www.freelance-cartoonist.com)

    Gallery 39
    "Monta" by Brian Demeter, Williamsburg, USA (acrylic on illustration board)
    www.briandemeter.com/

    Gallery 13
    Lee Healey, UK
    www.freelance-cartoonist.com

    Gallery 31
    Steffen Gumpert, Berlin, Germany
    www.steffengumpert.com

    Gallery 11
    S.W. Miller, Portage, USA
    http://swimmingupstreamcomic.blogspot.com/

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  9. Coop1 August 2009 at 16:05

    Thanks to those who have voted so far but I'm gonna need a lot more before it's worth tallying them up. So get your fingers out and get voting people!

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  10. Mark Nimrod23 October 2009 at 19:32

    From 1 to 5:

    Gallery 54
    "Frankie Frankenstein" by David Barneda, Sherman Oaks, USA
    http://www.barneda.com/

    Gallery 36
    "Flesh" by Tina Sweep, New York, USA (watercolour on Davey board)
    www.tinasweep.com

    Gallery 33
    A glorious pair today courtesy of Ian Ball, Bristol, UK (acrylic paint and pen I think)
    www.albinal.com
    "Ginger Frank"

    Gallery 20
    Steven Topley, UK
    www.steventopley.co.uk

    Gallery 57
    David Lee Ingersoll, Seattle, USA (markers)
    http://skook.blogspot.com/ (first pic)

    I love the hole collection!

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