I posted an old James Joyce portrait sketch for Bloomsday a couple of days ago and today decided to rework it as a vector graphic. This is the result. I was producing a lot of sketches like this while working on Reverbstorm a decade ago, most of them post-Picasso/Bauhaus/De Stijl variations. Joyce is particularly easy to render in a semi-abstract form on account of his distinctive features and apparel: hat, glasses, nose, moustache and bow tie. The Reverbstorm series is still in the process of being reworked as a single volume so this will probably find a home there.
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This is my favourite Joyce sketch
http://intranet.dalton.org/faculty/bender/JJ.Abin.JPEG
doing a Joyce & Abin search on Google leads to your own sketch
http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/images/coulthart_joyce.jpg
http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/joyce_images.html
as the 4th images just after:
http://joycean.org/media/joyce_writing_a_sentence.gif