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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAmazing pencil portrait of a woman
(from Reddit)
Artist said they spent over a hundred hours.
Making of video:
Comments and Artist's responses:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/dnevqg/this_drawing_took_me_over_100_hours_and_it_was_my/
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,043 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)Bayard
(22,149 posts)Looks like a photo.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)It seems more like the artists are showing off their technique rather than creating something original. If you want a completely accurate representation of something, we have photography for that.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)skypilot
(8,854 posts)...some people can do this. Why let the ability die on the vine just because cameras exists?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)I'm just not sure what the point is, except to show that they can do it.
skypilot
(8,854 posts)...is enough of a point for me. I like it when people can do amazing things, and being able to draw or paint like this is pretty amazing. Some people can barely draw a stick figure and then some people can do this.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)Even by implication.
How dare you, sir? How dare you, I say!
I'm sure you can draw a damn fine stick figure.
lastlib
(23,286 posts)...but my teacher said I wouldn't stay inside the lines or use the right colors--so I had to give it up in favor of calculating thermodynamic field tensors..............
skypilot
(8,854 posts)...sounds amazing to me. I think.
lastlib
(23,286 posts)...But I was so far ahead of my grade level in first grade that I was reading my sister's high-school science book and doing problems in my brother's sixth-grade math book. I put off the thermodynamics until college.
skypilot
(8,854 posts)lastlib
(23,286 posts)I have all the graceful movement of a brick....
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)Makes a huge difference to see a piece in person, in front of you vs. on internet on computer screen.