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Today's sketchbook:
A Hellenistic sculpture, titled "The Wounded Gaul". It's at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
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Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
Can you believe that Bela Lugosi was the original Apeman? Not Tarzan the "ape man", but Apeman. Although with the beard they gave him, I couldn't stop thinking he was the Goat-man. I'm not sure what's in the syringe, there, but I'm sure it's not good.
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Today's sketchbook:
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, in 1911.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
Gretchen told me I needed to draw some women to go with all those men. So I drew a picture of Vivian Porter, a performer in Ziegfeld's "Follies" and "George White's Scandals." HB and 4B pencil on Caslon paper.
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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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Today's sketchbook:
This is silent film actor Wallace Beery. It's not that great a likeness. 4B pencil on Strathmore drawing paper.
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Today's sketchbook:
This is one of Edward Curtis' prints of American Indians, dating from 1908 -- "Stands First, Ogalala". The old photos are good for value studies.
4B pencil on Strathmore drawing paper.
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Something a little different today. This is Lon Chaney, in a still from West of Zanzibar. Many reasons:
1. "The man of a thousand faces" is perfect for studies of facial expressions.
2. I needed a break from ink.
3. Like me, he's a
Kansan. (Criminy, he's from Colorado Springs!)4. He has my haircut.
4B pencil on Strathmore drawing paper.
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Today's page:
Canine/P3 honing.
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Today's sketchbook page:
Two juvenile mandibles from Swartkrans. The two are not to scale -- the larger tooth in the lower mandible is a dm2; that's the medium (central) tooth in the top mandible.
Pages
Neandertals
For years, I've worked on their bones. Now I'm working on their genes. Read more about the science studying these ancient people.
Denisova
From a finger bone of an ancient human came the record of a completely unexpected population. My lab is working on the science of the Denisova genome.
Acceleration
The advent of agriculture caused natural selection to speed up greatly in humans. We're uncovering some of the ways that populations have rapidly changed during the last 10,000 years.
Malapa
Just outside Johannesburg, the Malapa site is producing some of the most exciting finds in human evolution. This site is the headquarters of the Malapa Soft Tissue Project.