These are drawings!

[CriterionCollector]

Insane. To be a talented artist!

https://acidcow.com/pics/46773-its-hard-to-believe-but-these-are-not-photographs.html

 

[The Entity]

Holy crap these are insane!!!!
As someone who draws I find these to be highly inspirational, but I don't think I'll ever reach that level of realism!!!

 

[Furyan]

WOW!! I just cannot believe these.....I mean how? This is amazing.

 

[Blackthornone]

I am most impressed with:
Samuel Silva - Ballpoint pen
The redheaded girl. I mean, it's BALLPOINT PEN!
Paul Cadden - Pencil on paper


Ron Mueck - Sculpture, mixed materials
Quite a piece, but why anyone would spend all that time sculpting that is what I cannot relate to at all.

The rest are really realistic, but I can tell with enough time they could be done. The 3 I mentioned are the most difficult I think, with the Elephant being number 4.

I would be far more impressed with a realistic drawing or painting of something that does not exist, yet is realistic enough to convince you it does.
I have become more interested in art that is more imaginative.
I liker Akiane Kramirik's work a lot.
https://www.artakiane.com/

https://www.artakiane.com/

 

[krec9]

Those are great those they were real at first.

 

[spindrift]

This can not be really hand drawn art..just no way

How long would one take to do?(the redhead for example)

 

[Blackthornone]

This can not be really hand drawn art..just no way

How long would one take to do?(the redhead for example)

A lot of artists use opaque projectors to get the basic outlines of their work, and then paint it. It's much faster like that. Some artists can do it freehand fast enough or prefer freehand, or they don't have a projector.

It's all shapes and colors. When you look at the picture of the fruit surrounded by the plastic bag, you might think, it's a clear plastic bag that he painted. Well, no, not really. It's light that he painted. There are the shapes that are white highlights where the light illuminates the bag, and there are the grey parts where the light goes through more. It's just a lot of time and effort. You get the shapes done right, and then fill them with the correct colors, and then it all comes together into a photo-realistic piece.

There is blending of edges involved as well. The bigger that your painting is, the more realistic it looks when it is photo reduced. When reduced, the brush strokes disappear, and everything starts to look real. If you saw the painting up close, it would be much more obvious that it is a painting.


The opposite is also true. When you enlarge a smaller painting or drawing, all of the flaws become far more evident, and it looks much less real. Look at the size of the portraits in the photos with people in them. Some are 4 times as large or more.
Some painters are faster than others, but I'm guessing that most of the paintings took at least 100 hours to do, if not 200.

I would like to see a bigger picture of the redhead. I can see the ballpoint pen like marks in the hair, but the face has be wondering. Are those custom pens with custom colors?

 

[Darthrazz]

A lot of artists use opaque projectors to get the basic outlines of their work, and then paint it. It's much faster like that. Some artists can do it freehand fast enough or prefer freehand, or they don't have a projector.

It's all shapes and colors. When you look at the picture of the fruit surrounded by the plastic bag, you might think, it's a clear plastic bag that he painted. Well, no, not really. It's light that he painted. There are the shapes that are white highlights where the light illuminates the bag, and there are the grey parts where the light goes through more. It's just a lot of time and effort. You get the shapes done right, and then fill them with the correct colors, and then it all comes together into a photo-realistic piece.

There is blending of edges involved as well. The bigger that your painting is, the more realistic it looks when it is photo reduced. When reduced, the brush strokes disappear, and everything starts to look real. If you saw the painting up close, it would be much more obvious that it is a painting.


The opposite is also true. When you enlarge a smaller painting or drawing, all of the flaws become far more evident, and it looks much less real. Look at the size of the portraits in the photos with people in them. Some are 4 times as large or more.
Some painters are faster than others, but I'm guessing that most of the paintings took at least 100 hours to do, if not 200.

I would like to see a bigger picture of the redhead. I can see the ballpoint pen like marks in the hair, but the face has be wondering. Are those custom pens with custom colors?

Blackthorne yopu are correct, I majored in Fine Art, there were some classmates that were phenomenally talented. One guy did use a projector,( which dates back hundreds of years) and his drawings looked photographs.

 

[Duck]

These are incredible. My two favorite are the one where you are looking out of a windshield when its raining and the painting of paint. Not really sure why I dig those so much but I love those two.