Today's sketchbook:
Johnny Weissmuller, the original ape-man. I love the dynamic poses in many of his stills. The studio did some dramatic lighting, shadowed portions get a little flash around the edges from backlighting.
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JOHN HAWKS is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. I was trained as a paleoanthropologist, studying human evolution from an integrative perspective. My research focuses on the processes affecting human genetic evolution across the last 6 million years.
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