And now for the Caucasian/brown version. I had to correct the eyes, make the nose less round and change the cheek bones to get it this way. I still wasn’t able to reproduced the original. Realized that the face has to be become thinner which would mean redoing a lot of the work that went in (the paper wouldn’t have been able to handle it anymore). The nose had to become shorter which meant redoing the lips, something which I wasn’t willing to touch (this was the hardest bit). Some of the angles were also wrong. It is amazing how very minute variations in angles can have a huge impact on the looks. 7 billion people in the planet and most of them unique looking. The biological aspect of the origin of unique faces fascinates me.
10 hours of labor. I chose the wrong photo to do this one. It was shot in the dark with a flash, so there was too much lighting and shadows on the face which would look proper only if the background was dark as in the original photo. I couldn’t do the dark background well enough, so the shading turned a Caucasian into an African. I am not satisfied with the accuracy of the reproduction but I like how the face doesn’t look weird. Also managed to damage the paper around the cheek region which gives an acne effect! Good learning experience though. I especially like the way the hair turned out.
