Nebraska Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 this portrait is not the product of a camera but the steady hand and sharp pencil of a London artist with an astonishing eye for detail. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/in-pictures-drawn-to-perfection--the-pencil-portraits-8471239.html http://kelvinokaforart.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 eyez look shit mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YO303 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 This one is pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 impressive, though he's not exactly the first person to do something like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest A/D Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I love them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 doesn't helnwein use mixed media for his accuracy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 talent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny O Flannagin Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Why don't you just take a picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggs Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I tried drawing like this once. Didn't get too far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goiter Sanchez Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 These are astonishing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Amazing technique. He's only 27, so I hope he continues to hone his craft, but eventually combine it with other genres. Photo-realistic surrealism would be fucking crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geosmina Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 patience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lucy Faringold Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Photo-realistic surrealism would be fucking crazy. re. Kelvin Okafor, I'm glad to see he's getting some coin for his hours of work, but his stuff is pretty indistinguishable from the work of other high-level hyper-realists. Dirk Dzimirsky is one of the few I've seen whose stuff has actually moved me: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaarg Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 This last one is the only one that moved me. If you're gonna be too good at copying a camera there's no point, you gotta humanize what you see not technologize it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 This last one is the only one that moved me. If you're gonna be too good at copying a camera there's no point, you gotta humanize what you see not technologize it. agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Damnit, I was trying to find futuregirlfriend's (I think it was) drawing of Tom Cruise doing yoyo tricks too close to Craig Anderson's head, but it seems to have vanished off the net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Yeah, imo no fucking point in spending all of that time reproducing what a camera already did in a fraction of a second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aserinsky Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Damnit, I was trying to find futuregirlfriend's (I think it was) drawing of Tom Cruise doing yoyo tricks too close to Craig Anderson's head, but it seems to have vanished off the net. Good thing I archived it! Here you go: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Good man - never fails to bring a smile to my face ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rixxx Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Photo-realistic surrealism would be fucking crazy. Dirk Dzimirsky is one of the few I've seen whose stuff has actually moved me: Fucking hell, that's beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugene Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 impressive but pointless indeed, the Dream Theater of drawing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest isaki Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 woah, how did he get it looking all noisy? impressive, though he's not exactly the first person to do something like this. and this, the reason it looks like a camera is because the artist has actually drawn in the colour noise, particularly on her forehead. impressive! I wouldn't call it pointless... more a "hey, look what I can do" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lucy Faringold Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 and this, the reason it looks like a camera is because the artist has actually drawn in the colour noise, particularly on her forehead. impressive! Helnwein is great at projecting the image of a painstaking master (there used to be some hilarious pics on his site of him setting about a vast thirty-foot canvas with a miniscule little brush), but his stuff loses some of its magic once you find out that he often paints on top of photographic images and has a 'team of assistants' to help him realise his work. I still dig a lot of his stuff though, and I like that he usually brings a conceptual angle to these things, even if it's often pretty heavy-handed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Some of this stuff is cool but I think painting from a photo is utterly pointless. Why? Because the human eye can see subtle hue and value shifts that a camera can never capture - that, or the human eye just introduces a bunch of imperfections or exaggerations. Whatever the case, you can usually instantly tell if something was painted from a photo - it looks dead and tacky - vs. painted from life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 is this guy drawing from photos? i can generally tell when something is copied, but these look like they're from life. and then helnwein does both i believe. either way, it's only impressive on a technical level. i don't think i've ever been moved by a representative piece unless it's subtly manipulating the reality of the subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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