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Drawing of a blacknose shark and one of its upper teeth - the arrows and vertical line refer to diagnostic features of the species. The Cuban naturalist Felipe Poey published the first description of the blacknose shark in 1860 as Squalus acronotus, in his Memorias sobre la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba.
Saints Ahrakas and Oghani as dogheads (dogfaces to a degree, as the hair is human); 18th-century Coptic icon. Long before modern comics and animation, dog-headed people (called cynocephalics, from Greek κυνοκέφαλοι (kynokephaloi), from κύων-(dog-) and κεφαλή (head)) have been depicted in art and legend in many cultures, beginning no later than ancient Egypt.
'Honey Bunny', a Lockheed P-38 Lightning Virgin Atlantic nose art on 'Varga Girl', an Airbus A340-600. This particular nose art is used across Virgin Atlantic's fleet, and is officially named the Flying Lady. [1] Nose art is a decorative painting or design on the fuselage of an aircraft, usually on the front fuselage.
Luke the Spook was the name of a B-29 bomber, and its nose-art resembles the doodle and is said to have been created at the Boeing factory in Seattle. [36] In Chile, the graphic is known as a "sapo" [34] (slang for nosy). In Poland, Kilroy is replaced with "Józef Tkaczuk" or "M. Pulina". [34]
While the art can be realistic or cartoonish, characters often have large eyes (female characters usually have larger eyes than male characters), small noses, tiny mouths, and flat faces. Psychological and social research on facial attractiveness has pointed out that the presence of childlike, neotenous facial features increases attractiveness. [1]
Caricature of Aubrey Beardsley by Max Beerbohm (1896), taken from Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen. A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon).
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist.She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age.
The first such system was the drawing-based "Identikit" which was introduced in the U.S. in 1959. [2] A photograph-based system, "Photofit", was introduced in the UK in 1970. [ 2 ] Modern systems are software-based; common systems include SketchCop FACETTE Face Design System Software, Identi-Kit 2000, FACES, E-FIT and PortraitPad.