{"id":1023,"date":"2010-09-07T18:47:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T18:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kommiekomiks.com\/driftwood\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2023-02-04T21:09:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:09:18","slug":"driftwood-8-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"Driftwood 8 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn this was hard to draw. V`(oo)\u00b4V<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>For all the fangirls and fanboys who have always been wondering what the characters in Driftwood would look like if they were real people:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll exclude Seraphine, because, uh, yeah &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned, Samona looks kind of like my sister.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kommiekomiks.com\/drifrwoo-filer\/tatarana.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I guess Shannon looks a bit like me, but with an Irish jawline, more badass facial scars and a less obscene mouth &#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Tolstoi and me by Turukhtan, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/turukhtan\/3447445560\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3565\/3447445560_c2870bb8dc.jpg\" alt=\"Tolstoi and me\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those who have been following the Swedish language <a href=\"http:\/\/eva-serien.blogspot.com\/\">Eva blog<\/a> (about her solo adventures) know that Eva looks like a redheaded, slightly curvier and a bit less tall Olga Kurylenko.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kommiekomiks.com\/drifrwoo-filer\/o-k.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t really found anyone who would look much like Willie. Gabriela Hrabinova (also Czech) at least has the right colour combination and hair type (same age, too) , but some significant differences in facial features, not to mention body structure &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kommiekomiks.com\/drifrwoo-filer\/g-h.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As for Aeron, I actually <em>have <\/em>met somebody who both looked and acted very much like him (which was quite disturbing). It was this <a href=\"http:\/\/chirayliq.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Uighur\">Uighur<\/a> guy who worked at a restaurant in Ulan Bator making shashlyk, dressed all in black and being very cool, friendly and efficient and not minding the immense heat at all. Damn, I should have asked him if I could take a portrait of him, or at the very least taken a paparazzi photo from afar &#8230; V`(oo)\u00b4;V<br \/>\nSince I don&#8217;t have any photo of that guy, here are some people who, if you mix them all toghether, could end up looking more or less like Aeron &#8230;<br \/>\nThis Siberian dude:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kommiekomiks.com\/drifrwoo-filer\/sib-dude.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nilhan Mans\u0131z for the Tatar influence:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kommiekomiks.com\/drifrwoo-filer\/i-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThis random Kazakh youngster with a weird hairdo for the Kazakh influence:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kommiekomiks.com\/drifrwoo-filer\/random-kazakh-guy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nEric Burdon, mostly the eyes and eyebrows (and he kind of looks like an old friend of mine from the Northern Caucasus who also looks a bit like Aeron, but of whom I don&#8217;t have any decent photo):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kommiekomiks.com\/drifrwoo-filer\/e-b2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kommiekomiks.com\/drifrwoo-filer\/e-b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nPetr Nalich (from some angles, and when he has been leaner):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kommiekomiks.com\/drifrwoo-filer\/petrnalich.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, this post looks like a list of all the most beautiful people I could think of (except that my mum is missing from it), but I guess it was inevitable &#8230; V^(oo)^V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn this was hard to draw. V`(oo)\u00b4V * * * For all the fangirls and fanboys who have always been wondering what the characters in Driftwood would look like if they were real people: I&#8217;ll exclude Seraphine, because, uh, yeah &#8230; As mentioned, Samona looks kind of like my sister. I guess Shannon looks a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftwood-chapter-8","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}