Posts tagged "nickname portraits"
Nickname Portraits; 3/5
Arthur Kirkland.
Name (Arthur) occasionally in usage throughout 2011 to present day.
What started out as a joke about my place of origin turned into yet another namesake, mostly through the influence of the class above mine in VFS. I also had blonde hair for most of the year so I looked alarmingly like him at one point.
There were also a few people who simply referred to me as ‘England’, but it had nothing to do with the character; my class was so international that we could pretty much yell a country of origin across the room and the right person would answer!
Nickname Portraits; 2/5
Jimmy Olsen.
Name (Jimmy) used in art class for a while.
A fairly short-lived nickname within a small group, but it stuck with me all the same. I did a project on Roy Lichenstein in school and chose DC comics as a source of inspiration. There were a couple of Superman issues with Jimmy Olsen in them, who I took to drawing, and a few of my classmates pointed out that I looked quite like him. I found little objection to it and to my amusement ended up being called Jimmy for a number of weeks.
Also, if I’d been a boy I would have been called Jimmy after my grandfather, so; there you have it.
Nickname portraits; 1/5
Fred Weasley.
Name (Fred) in common usage from age 13 to 19 but some still call me that in the present day.
God I haven’t drawn this maniac in eons. Where do I start- I got the nickname from my maths teacher, of all people. I was sat next to a red-haired girl called Jessica, who I was and am still best friends with. We were a total double act, played pranks, finished each others’ sentences, and when I decided to dye my hair red it was all of two weeks before we were dubbed Fred and George for the rest of our higher education years.
Not sure why but I always pictured the twins as having long hair.