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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