Portrait of a Collector

It all started with a bit of envy. I was noticing that all of the cool kids in the NFT community had a <a href="https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Cryptopunks</a> or a <a href="https://boredapeyachtclub.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Bored Ape Yacht Club</a> profile photo. I really wanted one too, but they were expensive and they weren’t really my kind of thing. I was more of an art geek and wanted something that reflected that interest, so I decided to commission a portrait by one of my favorite artists, <a href="https://twitter.com/geolwilliams" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">George Williams</a>. I discovered George when <a href="https://twitter.com/MarischaBecker" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Marischa Becker</a> gave him a shout out one day on Twitter. I immediately got lost in his abstract 3D art on <a href="https://opensea.io/collection/georgelwilliams" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">OpenSea</a> and his portraits had such a <a href="https://foundation.app/@geolwilliams/gatekeeper-30642" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">unique</a> and <a href="https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/109279923857031167319189791585837964272332300368492769191968587979216578936833" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">distinctive</a> style. They stuck in my mind for a long time and I ended up buying several of his pieces. So when the idea of having a custom portrait commissioned came to mind, I immediately thought of George and asked him if he would be open to doing a commission. He graciously accepted and off he went to work his magic. And oh man, did he work his magic. I was blown away by his first test renders and he kept on coming back with more and more creative ideas of how to approach the portrait. When somebody does such great work, it’s hard not to be inspired yourself and so ideas started popping up in my head left and right. And it wasn’t just ideas of what to do with the portrait, but they were ideas of how to harness all the creative energy that was radiating from George’s work and take what started as a simple portrait and do something bigger. <a href="https://lifeofc.medium.com/portrait-of-a-collector-37d4c46f77f8">Click Here</a>