Ah Catullus, I would never have guessed him! He looks very robust and physical in your drawing, I imagine him as more dreamy and studious. Perhaps he was somewhere between the two? I studied Catullus at school, in Latin. I can't remember the poems now, but I remember being intrigued by them. Clever @owasco!
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Yes, he might be a bit too brutal looking. Nothing is harder than translating a spiritual impression into a physical image. I always understood him as a bit of a double person, a bit like John Keats. I do not doubt the feelings they convey, they are too private and self-revealing to be inventions, but the poems of both poets are also so cold and carefully crafted and slightly manipulative. There is an element of trickster in this kind of art. That's why I wanted to make him look different from the normal sensitive face :) I will have to work much longer on it to get something satisfactory.