Welcome
to the Frank Episale portrait page! This first portrait is the
closest you'll find to attempted realism here. Color realism is
hard to accomplish when all you have to work with is black and
white photographs and verbal descriptions, and I have a vague
suspicion that Frank doesn't often wear clothes of that odd
pinkish-purplish-bluish shade. Well, maybe he should start. Visit
him online at Frank's
Foyer—and while you're there, tell him to send me some
color pictures.
This
is Frank Episale's face lacquered in fiery metallic red and gold,
with glowing orange eyes. All of the pictures on this page were
made primarily with the Lacquer plugin for Photoshop, as were a
large number of my pictures in general—I really
like this particular plugin. You can do so many different things
with it, and with relatively little effort.
Here's spooky
age-progressed mass-murderer Frank glowering at you from under
his cloud of gloom. I've age-progressed several people before but
never such a close-up picture. In this instance the Lacquer
plugin just randomly happened across an effect which provided
most of the face and gave me the idea for the picture. Then I
just adjusted a few colors and declared it finished.
Oh
look, it's space alien Frank! And with a distinctly Bowie-influenced
taste in space suits. I adore this picture, actually: especially
the strange silvery wisps of hair and the big round dark pretty
eyes . . . As with all the pictures on this page, you can click
the picture to see a larger version.
This
is sweet demure charming pretty Frank wearing an extremely
interesting outfit. I really like the colors in this picture. Oh,
and the vaguely phallic-like thing in the upper right corner was
entirely accidental, I assure you. Really! I suppose I could have
erased it, but considering that I don't even know whose phallus
it is, I feel that would be quite premature. For one
thing, Frank might want it there. For another, every
cute boy should at some time in his life be painted with a
disembodied phallus pointing at his head.