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Oi! Oi!
Anyway, I wanted to do a picture like this, but the original idea was to use russian formalists, and call it "formalism is not dead" instead... turns out russian formalists don't have as cool beards as you might expect, so where to turn? Marx of course! One of the greatest beards in the modern age!

As for the technical stuff, I did it in Painter 9, with several reference photos. You might recognise the one I used for Marx, it's pretty common I think. Noise and text was added in Photoshop.. it's a bit sad I had to resize it so much to make it a manageable size, the original is almost twice as big, and I really like the stroke details.. but nevermind.

Ey! O! Let's go!

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Awesome pic, awesome message!

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Blood for face, Sweat for dirt, Three X's for the stone
To break this curse A ritual's due, I believe I'm not alone
Shell of shotgun, Pint of gin, Numb us up to shield the pins
Renew our faith, Which way we can, To fall in love with life again.
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Best beards indeed. I only wish I'd studied more forms of government/economics so I could get the message. the "marxism is not dead" text is put on there greatly.

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Don't worry, I'm no marxist myself... actually, I generally dislike marxist theory, in all its bastardisations (that Karl Marx had very little to do with). I don't think of it as an image that has any particular meaning to convey, it's just a fun picture, like Einstein with Kiss-paint. Hey, I think I'll do that!
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nice to see uncle karl looking so camden :) nice work!

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and there you have it, a lovely deesh
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He does have a sort of natural uncle-ness about him doesn't he?
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that he does. i think it's the beard, sort of reminiscent of santa. Noone evil has a beard, apart from, like, Vlad the Impaler...

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and there you have it, a lovely deesh
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Darth Vader never got a beard... nor did the evil stepmothers in various adventures. This concludes the analysis, there are no truly evil people with beards.
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On another note - got any other ideas for some great beards? I was thinking Nietzsche...

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