I recently visited the National Portrait Gallery in London which got me
thinking about editorial portraits. In magazine design, more often than
not, photography is the star of the show. But there are more great
illustrators today than ever before, and I will always have a special
respect for artists who can take an image like a basic portrait and
transform it into something uniquely their own---through drawing. Maybe
it's a side-effect of my own unrealized dreams of becoming a really
cool, famous painter. But for now, I'll settle for being cool by
association.
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