When in Doubt, Reverse the Polarity
HEROES OF THE BLOGOSPHERE #1: Wil Wheaton
I tried to get him to work at 32px by 32px, much smaller than I usually draw. I think he’s mostly recognizable. The “problem” with guys like Mr. Wil (who is not to be confused with a Wii) is that they do not have any weird features you can exaggerate!
This dude is SYMMETRICAL, which I guess is what all of us animals with spines and limbs are going for. I think the secret to drawing him is in how his pinch up a tiny bit when he smiles. I stare at people too much, huh?
I might do some other versions with little identifier icons on them. Watch this “space,” EL ROFL LOLZORS.
Who’s next?
December 13th, 2006 at 5:52 am
you did a good job! mister wheaton is totally recognizable in tiny 32×32. I humbly suggest that you try out Neil Gaiman next. his blog is awesome, sometimes moreso than his other writing. He would also be kinda hard to caricature, except he has a lovely big nose.
the only other blogs i read regularly are made by faceless persons of mystery! like Waiter from waiterrant.net, or the Manolo’s Shoe Blog, or Twisty from I Blame the Patriarchy.
If you did enough of these I think they would make a fantastic set of buttons (assuming you got the okay from the bloggers to use their likenesses.) I could pin them to my bag and it would seriously boost my web 3.0 cred.
December 13th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
super small pixel art does it for me… now that I think of it I’ve got a DS comic strip I made in my spare time (not really original since it still has most of the original pixel art in it) that features REALLY small versions of clango, RR and uncle grandpa doing minor expressions and humor.
December 14th, 2006 at 12:56 am
Warren Ellis. Then Warren Ellis’ Treo.
Then Spider Jerusalem.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:27 am
Totally geeky. I love.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:41 am
Very good work. And Wil’s impressed too!
December 14th, 2006 at 7:16 am
Looks great!
I think Seth Godin would be fun to see pixelized. Put a nice highlight on that bald gourd of his. Along with his askew nose and large mouth.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:23 am
“how his pinch up a tiny bit when he smiles” - how his WHATS pinch up…??? lol
December 14th, 2006 at 8:29 am
This is cool; it’s like the lego version of Wil.
*I wonder what I would look like in lego?*
December 14th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Sweet.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Very nice - I’m looking forward to seeing the next one!
December 15th, 2006 at 11:20 am
Superlative!
I’ll toss Scalzi and Dooce into the proverbial hat. Gibson would be pretty groovy too.
December 15th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
I second the vote for Warren Ellis. Now more than ever we need icons for Internet Jesus.
December 19th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
i love me some Wheaton, but if you’re going to be REALLY honest, there should be more than one chin…
April 18th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
[…] Seriously, is there anybody that gets cameoed as much as Wil? Off the top of my head, you’ve got Goats (both oblique and direct references), Overcompensating, a Rich Stevens sketchblog entry, Questionable Content (textual only), and Dork Tower (maybe a cheat since it was initially created for print). Add in another print comic reference here and one forthcoming here, and you have the beginnings of a movement. […]