MALE FACES TO DRAW

Wow! This must be one of the best ever pictures of a screen villain. The subject is, of course, John Carradine.

Carradine had a face that looked great when underlit.

Don't you think this guy (above) looks a little like a Don Martin character?

Who is this man (above)? Whoever he is, he fairly cries out for a caricature. Come to think of it, this pose reminds me of a caricature I once saw of John Maynard Keynes. Hold on, I'll look it up....

......okay, here it is (above), and it's by Low, the editorial cartoonist. I'm not a fan of Keynes economics but he inspired some good caricatures. The poor guy had the problem that lots of tall people have: "What'll I do with my legs?"

I'm not a fan of Samuel Beckett, either (above). I actually had to walk out of one of his plays, "Krapp's Last Tape", after paying full price. There was just no beauty in it, nothing to reward the audience for showing up. I have to admit, though, that he did take a good photograph. Geez, it kinda takes the sting out of old age if you get to look chiseled and cool like Beckett.

David Levine liked to caricature him (above).

And while we're on the subject of craggy faces, how about that ultimate craggy-faced poet....W. H. Auden? In old age his face retained youthful proportions but his skin looked like a road map. 

  

Once more (above), a caricature by David Levine. Levine loved to draw wrinkles.

MALE FACES TO DRAW (PART 6)

 Wow! I think of the bully undertaker's son in "Oliver Twist" when I see a face like this (above). Or am I thinking of "Nicholas Nickleby?" Dickens wrote about so many bullies that it's easy to confuse them. BTW, I love the schoolmaster in the Nickleby story. The way he taught Nicholas how to teach was priceless. 

What a face on the actor on the right! And what a chin! I'm so envious!

Here (above) Christopher Lee plays a dissipated young man, but what film is this from?

Imagine that you're a dad and your daughter brings this boy (above) home to meet you. I can imagine offering him some pretzels and getting a look that says, "Oh reeeeeeeally. Pretzels, how amusing. Do people really eat those things?"

Geez, this guy (above) has an interesting profile. The diagonal from the tip of the nose to the chin is so drastic! It's not all that uncommon, though. I see it on the street all the time. 

For my last male subject I present....me! I just got my hair cut and the cutter made me a skinhead. Geez, I'll have to wear a bag over my head for the next couple of months!  

INTERESTING MEN'S FACES

Here's a picture by Hans Namuth called "Armed Farmer." Where does this picture come from? The Spanish Civil War? Argentina? Why is the farmer armed? He doesn't look like he's worried about anything.

Here's one by Fracois Kollar called, "Railway Worker." The guy's head reminds me of a parrot's for some reason, but that doesn't detract from the drama. Click to enlarge. 

Guys with weak chins like myself are full of envy for men with heroic chins like this one (above). If I had a chin like that I'd wear a black body suit and ski mask with just one big hole for the chin and none for anything else. It's by Edward Weston. 

A streamlined head (above) that looks like the owner is facing the wind all the time, even if he isn't. It's another Weston.

Yet another Weston (above). This man just has to be a mad scientist. I can imagine this guy delivering Lugosi's lines from the "Ed Wood" movie, the lines where he threatens humanity with a race of atomic supermen who "...vill conquer da VERLD!"

Last but not least (above), Edward Sherriff Curtis's "Ankara Man." Click to enlarge. Once again we see an Indian portrait where the nose isn't long like the cartoon caricatures. Geronimo had a long nose and, since his portrait was the most reproduced, all Indians were believed to have long noses. I don't think most of them did.

This man is strikingly handsome.  The picture is from 1905, I think.

That's all the pictures I have. While I'm here I thought I'd say a word about "Love Nerds," which I just removed. I asked a few people about it, and they said they didn't post their pictures there because they were too fat, and didn't want anyone to see them that way. Son of a Gun! It seems that this site attracts a lot of fat people who want to pass themselves off as thin...like me! Geez, I should put up Jenny Craig ads and make a couple of bucks!