Journal 60

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Chrissie777 wrote: Courtenay, now I can see it. It looks almost like a baddie face from Eileen A. Soper to me.
Nah, it's Bill, I tells ya. :mrgreen:

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Yes - that's the one, Courtenay. :-)
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Courtenay wrote:maybe Tony and Rob are seeing something completely different?? :D
Tony seems to have vanished for the night...must be finishing off that bottle... :lol:
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No, I'm still here, I have just been watching two episodes of Moondial. We are seeing the same person, Rob, others may be missing it because they are looking at it too closely. Get a bit away from it and you can see the profile clearly. I don't really drink from a bottle, it is always just a glass and it is always just water in it! He looks quite sinister but if I look through glimpsing eyes I feel he has a mohican rather than being bald!
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Tony Summerfield wrote:but if I look through glimpsing eyes I feel he has a mohican rather than being bald!
Yes, actually, it could be. Or a laurel wreath (a wheat wreath??) like Caesar. 8)
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Well I can see what you mean now, but I couldn't see it at first. It looks more like Scarface to me!
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I still reckon it's Bill having a bad hair(less) day. :P
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Julie2owlsdene wrote:Nope, I can't see a face in that circle at all. :|
Julie, the wide, black collar of that little figure on the right is basically the eyebrow of the man's face.
Below that you can make out his nose and mouth with a little imagination.
Does it work now?
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That's also why I posted the comparison with the picture of Bill — the facial expression is similar, but the "face" in the cover illustration is in profile, facing straight to the right. I couldn't see it at first either, but then suddenly it came clear. :)
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Now Chrissie has explained I can see a sort of face, not Bill's just an outline of a face. :)

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That's how I see it Julie... just a face, but not at all "Bill".
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Courtenay wrote:That's also why I posted the comparison with the picture of Bill — the facial expression is similar, but the "face" in the cover illustration is in profile, facing straight to the right. I couldn't see it at first either, but then suddenly it came clear. :)
He also resembles those grumpy farmers in the FF series, Courtenay.
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Could be, yes. I don't think it looks exactly like Bill, by the way — that was just the nearest resemblance I could think of in a Blyton illustration. He's too thin-faced and grumpy-looking for Bill, really. 8)
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Slightly off topic - Bill's coat of arms & knives!
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That's pretty cool, Pete. Maybe you could do an illustrated guide to Coats of Arms of Famous Blyton Characters and offer it to Tony for Journal 61?? :D :mrgreen:

(Now I wonder what coat of arms we could have for the Kirrins... or the Secret Seven... or Noddy... :wink: )
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