Amazing Portrait

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http://www.digg.com/offbeat_ne...Looks_Like_A_Photo_PIC

Artist Dru Blair presented a photo portrait to his class and instructed them to reproduce the photo in painting as best they could. After the class had ended, he decided to test the limits of his painting skills and took it upon himself to recreate the photo, with pretty startling results.

 

[mugs]

I don't believe it.

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According the artist, 99% of the painting was done using airbrush, while other techniques involving colored pencil, x-acto knife and eraser were also used, especially to add realism to fine textures of the skin and hair.

That's a little more believable.

 

[Agentbolt]

Holy CRAP. That's amazing!

 

[Looney]

How the hell does that prove anything? More than likely he took a photo, and then use photoshop to REDUCE the quality.

 

[moshquerade]

looks too good to be true doesn't it?

 

[ElFenix]

i don't understand why people link to digg or slashdot rather than to the article.

 

[Looney]

And who the hell paints half a face as perfect as they can... leaving the other half of the face completely blank? I have absolutely zero skills with painting, but i know enough to know that this is BS.

 

[coinz]

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that is crazyy

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: coinz
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that is crazyy

It's AIRBRUSH. Yes, it's possible then (unlike the misleading OP). Heck, almost all magazines use airbrushing these days.

 

[Agentbolt]

Heck, almost all magazines use airbrushing these days.

No. Wrong. Magazines airbrush pre-existing photographs. This was made from scratch. Talk about misleading statements.

Airbrushing obviously make it look a lot more photo-realistic than normal painting tools could ever hope for, but this is still a very impressive achievments.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt

Heck, almost all magazines use airbrushing these days.

No. Wrong. Magazines airbrush pre-existing photographs. This was made from scratch. Talk about misleading statements.

Airbrushing obviously make it look a lot more photo-realistic than normal painting tools could ever hope for, but this is still a very impressive achievments.

What's the difference in airbrushing breasts bigger than airbrushing a breast from a blank sheet? You're just doing more of it.

'Impressive achievement'? I guess it really depends on the person. Personally, i would be more impressed if they created a woman completely from their mind rather than copying a photograph.

 

[rhino56]

very talented but somehow im left feeling like his talents are being wasted or something.

you still end up with a regular photo

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: Agentbolt

Heck, almost all magazines use airbrushing these days.

No. Wrong. Magazines airbrush pre-existing photographs. This was made from scratch. Talk about misleading statements.

Airbrushing obviously make it look a lot more photo-realistic than normal painting tools could ever hope for, but this is still a very impressive achievments.

What's the difference in airbrushing breasts bigger than airbrushing a breast from a blank sheet? You're just doing more of it.

'Impressive achievement'? I guess it really depends on the person. Personally, i would be more impressed if they created a woman completely from their mind rather than copying a photograph.

Read the link coinz posted, the artist deals with that criticism specifically.

 

[n7]

Wow.

Incredible.

 

[alien42]

shens

 

[RapidSnail]

Beautiful.

 

[SZLiao214]

Thats some crazy detail to recreate. I failed art at the point where you had to shade the circle...

 

[Guntizzle]

I bet he took picture and painted backwards

maybe...

enough hours and you can make alot of stuff look pretty good...

 

[purbeast0]

i don't believe it for one second. the lone strands of hair just seem too good to be true.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: Guntizzle
I bet he took picture and painted backwards

maybe...

enough hours and you can make alot of stuff look pretty good...

This was featured in a magazine. Really, the link that coinz gave should be the one everyone goes to because it addresses most of the criticisms here. For example, the one of the points of the photorealism is to do "photos" that would be impossible. He seems to specialize in aircraft and does scenes where it would not be possible to recreate in real life.

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: Agentbolt

Heck, almost all magazines use airbrushing these days.

No. Wrong. Magazines airbrush pre-existing photographs. This was made from scratch. Talk about misleading statements.

Airbrushing obviously make it look a lot more photo-realistic than normal painting tools could ever hope for, but this is still a very impressive achievments.

What's the difference in airbrushing breasts bigger than airbrushing a breast from a blank sheet? You're just doing more of it.

'Impressive achievement'? I guess it really depends on the person. Personally, i would be more impressed if they created a woman completely from their mind rather than copying a photograph.

Forgive me if I am wrong, but I think you are confusing this with this.

 

[flexy]

i have a very hard time to believe this...i mean every hair, pore etc.... WHOW....

 

[Aharami]

woah. thats interesting. and a good looking model to boot

 

[Abel007]

That is impressive.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Impressive

However, nowhere near as jaw dropping as Armin, which works fully with pencils only

http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs6/...__drawing_by_nimra.jpg