This is a demo to see what it would look like if we converted the following photo of the actor George Clooney to wood, as a Dowel Art artwork.
It was created with a 3D application. The artwork would contain 31785 dowels. Since it is a manual process it would take about 36 man-hours to pin the wooden dowels on the base plates.

1. The original photo:

2. Converted to the Dowel Art palette (grayscale version):

3. The final artwork would look like this:

Dowel Art^® type: DL33