Who Am I?

I am Dan, others call me Daniel, I am the mysterious driving force behind the website currently known as www.drawmyface.co.uk and the content that lies therein. You might call me a 'webmaster', although to me that conjures up images of an evil anti-spiderman, which, frankly, is not the image I'm going for. I'm an artist of sorts, in that I create things for people to look at and say: "Ooh, that's good, isn't it George? Looks almost like a photo!" Or: "Well I think he's done the nose a bit too long, and what's David Beckham doing playing the piano anyway?"

"So you already have a website, why have you created this blog?" I hear you ask. (I really hear it, my therapist says I should try to get more sleep.) Well, the main reason is that it would be really time-consuming to create a blog on my website, and I just don't have that kind of time. It took me long enough to make the site as it is, and I just can't be bothered to do anything else for myself, so the nice people at blogger.com can do it for me! Also, it's a kind of separate entity from the website itself. This is intended as a behind the scenes look at drawmyface, for those whose interest goes beyond looking at pictures. You can read about what inspired me to draw an evil dancing clown, how long it took to get Al Pacino's eyes so sparkly, or who exactly are these 'non-celebrities'? I'll also talk about the website itself and the trials and tribulations of getting it online.

But for now, I'll leave you with the new painting of Bono, which I completed two days ago. I don't usually do commissions (well, sometimes I do, if you want one, ask me, and I'll let you know), but a friend of a friend sent me this cool photo of the U2 frontman and asked if I would consider painting it, so I did. It's taken me about two months altogether, which is far too long! All this web-ferretting has left me precious little time to do what the website is all about - painting. So I hereby solemnly swear that there will be another completed painting or drawing on drawmyface before 2006.

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