Who's it?

[Cottonwood]

Carving a good face is hard enough but I have found that carving a face to look like a particular person is a real challenge !
I carved this face to look like a fairly famous person (in some circles). He has such distinct facial features that I thought that it would make it easier to carve a likeness of him. Wrong!

This subject is an intelligent and a very admired person. The more you learn of him the more he is admired. I'm probably sticking my neck out, but, can you tell whom I have intended this carving to resemble?

I have included two different lighting sources.....not that either makes the carving appear more like the person that I intended

[Cottonwood]

Shucks! What a big mystery! I forgot that the picture was labled.

[Midnight Carver]

That is a great carving! I'm really impressed with the realism, especially the eyes. To be honest...even with the name, I had to look up who he was. Awesome either way!

Eric

[AlArchie]

Wow, that's impressive, Millard! I can't even draw faces, let alone carve them. You have reached a level of realism that is far beyond the scope of most carvers.

Al

[Nancy-G]

Ditto what Eric and Al said ... What a super carving!

[Jim S.]

Hi Cotton,
Wow! You have carved one impressive face. It almost looks waxlike.
Great piece,
Jim

[Lynn O. Doughty]

Looks just like him! Nice work. Next question would be why him?

[Gulf Coast Handyman]

Great job Millard, the detail is awesome.

Dave

[Simplyme]

Wow. This carving is amazing.

It looks so realistic........

Again i'm amazed............WOW

[Cottonwood]

Thanks for your comments, all. Lynn, I chose him to try to carve because of his distictive facial characteristics thinking that the sum of the parts, the eyes, smile lines, wrinkles, long upper lip, etc. would equal a likness of Krauthammer's face....guess it does...sort of......( voice trailing off in an unconvicing manner)