Your photo as a painting, carving or print from before 1900
Twenty ways a picture was made by hand, from cave painting around 15,000 BC to Impressionist painting in 1880. Pick a craft and Erafy makes a new picture of you in its materials and marks, not a photograph.
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The twenty crafts, in three groups
Stone and clay comes first, from cave painting around 15,000 BC to the terracotta army around 220 BC. Panel, silk and thread follows, from a Fayum mummy portrait in AD 150 to a Japanese likeness portrait in 1340, with the Bayeux Tapestry, in fact an embroidery, between them. Painted and printed runs from Quattrocento painting in 1480 and Holbein's Tudor portraits to four crafts of the 1800s: Hokusai's woodblock prints, wood engraving, the chromolithograph poster and Impressionist painting.
Faces come through unevenly. A painted portrait can hold a face. A print or a poster flattens it to shape, hair colour, build and clothes. A cave wall, a relief, a vase or a stitch barely holds a person: a figure with some of your traits.
The seventeen camera years since 1900 have their own list, and the Pet as a person look works in these crafts too.
Stone and clay
cave wall, tomb, vase, terracotta
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Cave paintingaround 15,000 BC -
Levantine rock artaround 6000 BC -
Egyptian tomb paintingaround 2400 BC -
Minoan frescoaround 1600 BC -
Assyrian palace reliefaround 700 BC -
Greek vase paintingaround 450 BC -
Terracotta armyaround 220 BC
Panel, silk and thread
panel, silk, embroidery, scroll
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Fayum mummy portraitAD 150 -
Tang court paintingAD 750 -
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Painted and printed
oil, chalk, woodblock, engraving, lithograph
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Rococo1760 -
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Wood engraving1850 -
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Nobody in the examples is a real person — the before photos are invented faces. These are our best results, not average ones. Sometimes AI can't handle it and modifies your face. All we can offer is a try.
Questions
What would I look like in the 1800s?
Erafy has no camera years before 1900, so for the 1800s it makes a picture by hand instead: a woodblock print of 1832, a wood engraving of 1850, a chromolithograph poster of 1868 or an Impressionist painting of 1880. Faces are drawn in each craft's style, so how much the result resembles you varies from one go to the next. The first camera year is 1900.
