RF or SLR... Film or Digital... Neither

[kuzano]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/stunning-drawing-russian-girl-not-photograph-170243830.html

Also, link to DeviantArts where similar images are posted. Fascinating to me.

http://vianaarts.deviantart.com/

 

[jonasv]

I thought it was a nice photorealistic image, but I've seen a lot of these before.

Nice but not special.

At least that's what I thought until I read what he used to create them:
"I have 8 colored Bic ballpoint pens, for this I used 6 of them plus black. They are just common everyday ballpoint pens."

 

[jsrockit]

Pretty impressive. I'd love to see the actual drawing in the flesh. It's gotta be amazing to look at the technique used.

 

[kdemas]

That's pretty amazing, thanks for posting.

 

[Matus]

It indeed is stunning from the technical point of view, but somehow it feels like it looses what painting has over the photography - ability to show what is invisible to everybody else than the painter - as indeed it is how he sees the subject.

Imagine that the author of this painting would have pictured Mona Lisa - would it keep it's stunning and puzzling charm?

 

[froyd]

"Ballpoint pens are as underestimated as they are a powerful medium," Silva writes on his site. "It's not about what you use, it's about how you use it."

...a good reminder for those GAS attacks!