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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat Do You Think of This Picture?
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[font color="white"]This is not a photo. It's a penciled sketch. [/Font]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2115297/Paul-Cadden-The-hyperrealist-artist-recreating-photographs-pencil.html
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What Do You Think of This Picture? (Original Post)
Yavin4
Mar 2012
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ElboRuum
(4,717 posts)1. The question "Can you paint with a pencil?"
...has been finally answered... in the affirmative.
Suich
(10,642 posts)2. Impressive!
Could have fooled me!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,754 posts)3. The artist is very very skilled.
I really almost don't believe it.
Wow.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)4. His work is incredible!!!
Good find!
Syrinx
(14,804 posts)5. I came here to post the very same link
You beat me to it.
Really amazing drawings.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)6. You might want to put a NSFW warning on the link
Someone might see a nipple they weren't expecting.
Syrinx
(14,804 posts)7. the more I look at these...
Is there any way that this is true?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)8. Great work!
Having done some photorealism myself I think this work is just about as perfect as it can be. It's incredible.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)9. amazing, to the point that I am having a hard time believing it ...
the nude, yes - looks like a drawing.
The hair, eyes and water on some of the others...How?
incredulous.