Kuya Robert at work in History Con
Doing my rounds at History Con I came across the "Ugly Portrait" booth, you can only imagine my delight when I found out it was Robert Alejandro making the ugly portraits on-the-spot.
As he worked on portraits of History Con's guest celebrities based on photographs on the first day. I had the impression that he was there to show his process rather than take commissions. It wasn't until the last day that I had spotted someone had posed for a portrait (and I assumed wrong after all.)
Kuya Robert was super nice and very animated when he shared some of his fondest memories from hosting the Art is Skool for a year. (I swear it felt like more than a year!)
My portrait would be the last one he'd make for this edition of History Con. I was told by Jet, who I later figured was the Jetro Rafael of Van Gogh is Bipolar (double woow), that its a rare opportunity to have Robert do commissioned portraits. This was also the first time he had a go at "Ugly" portraits which to their surprise really turned out pretty.
This really topped my History Con experience!
Some of his portraits at HCon
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