Nov 14 2008
Times really have changed!
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Nonetheless, it is not going too far to say that the portrait sketch is, slowly but surely, coming back into its own. You see, realism is running out of steam. When the portrait sketch first became popular, it was because there was no other way to record a visual image. The rich and famous would go to sit for a portrait, subjecting themselves to hours of sitting still so that an artist could record their image for all time. These personal portraits would be treasured works of art, passed down from father to son or mother to daughter for generations.
Then photography came along and changed things. Suddenly, you could get something that looked much more realistic than a portrait sketch. Since then, photographic portraits have been the standard.
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