B&W Pencil Drawings Look Like Photographs...
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Meakin
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Thanks for sharing - that is....wow..a patient man for sure.
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Bike Tourist
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Yeah, this guy has even Norman Rockwell beat for realism. There are also people who can use the medium of water colors to create very realistic wash drawings. The only tip off, at this scale, is that these drawing lack contrast. It's funny — the general reaction to photography among visual artists was to become more abstract. Now we've come full circle. Using PS I can make my photos look like drawings!
jwcat
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In the late sixties, I had a small Durst enlarger while living in Italy. I would put a BandW negative in the Durst and shade in with a pencil till the "picture" looked right. The dark areas were left alone and the white areas were shaded.
It did not take much to amuse a sailor.
John
It did not take much to amuse a sailor.
John
zvos1
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I always believed that camera doesn't matter. Next time I am heading out I'll put the pencil in the pocket and I am set. Now only if my subjects would hold still.
No seriously, this guy has some talent, it is hard to believe these are not photos.
No seriously, this guy has some talent, it is hard to believe these are not photos.
Sparrow
Veteran
They look like a photo projected with an epidiascope, one has to ask why bother?
Beemermark
Veteran
I recently attended a Museum introduction of Civil War drawings for newspapers. The artist would make a "sketch" in the field (often under enemy fire) with notes for the paper. At the newspaper the image would be transferred reversed to the stamp with details added in from notes on the drawings.
The sketches were generally about 8x10 inches or smaller and had incredible detail and shades. I kept wondering how do you keep your pencils sharp and draw the entire battle scene with shells and bullets landing all around you. One sketch showed a tree trunk being blown away by an enemy shell with the note that this really happened and was too close for comfort. Another one of a famous General contain the note that the artist was sick with all the illnesses available in camp life and please fill the General's face in from available photographs.
Really amazing.
The sketches were generally about 8x10 inches or smaller and had incredible detail and shades. I kept wondering how do you keep your pencils sharp and draw the entire battle scene with shells and bullets landing all around you. One sketch showed a tree trunk being blown away by an enemy shell with the note that this really happened and was too close for comfort. Another one of a famous General contain the note that the artist was sick with all the illnesses available in camp life and please fill the General's face in from available photographs.
Really amazing.
Steve M.
Veteran
Neat, even if his descriptions of Photorealism are off the wall. Still, what an artist says has no worth, it's all about the work.
Technical ability and look of art work (based on what I see on my monitor, which is hardly the way to do this ) = 9
Creativity = 4
I found this guy easily on the web,
http://www.denispeterson.com/
so by golly, this must be a movement! Yawn. I can relate to the B&W work, but this color stuff is crap. To me. None of this is Photorealism, of course, which I like mostly because some very accomplished painters took it up decades ago. Photorealism is neither photographic nor realistic, but this Hypererrealism seems flat (digital?) and nowhere near Photorealism.
Technical ability and look of art work (based on what I see on my monitor, which is hardly the way to do this ) = 9
Creativity = 4
I found this guy easily on the web,
http://www.denispeterson.com/
so by golly, this must be a movement! Yawn. I can relate to the B&W work, but this color stuff is crap. To me. None of this is Photorealism, of course, which I like mostly because some very accomplished painters took it up decades ago. Photorealism is neither photographic nor realistic, but this Hypererrealism seems flat (digital?) and nowhere near Photorealism.
