This is not a photograph
The idea of this painting by artist Dru Blair was born out of a portrait workshop he taught in 2005. In that workshop, he presented his students with a photo portrait he had taken of a local model. Their goal was to reproduce the photo in painting as best as 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.
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May 21st, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Wow. As a graphic artist who works with Photoshop and visits digital art sits almost daily I would say this is impossible. But I did some internet research and this guy seems to be for real. I have never seen anything like this. For more amazing 2d images (programs that simulate painting by hand) and 3d stills (programs that use grids and rendering) visit http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=138.
May 21st, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Great link PP, thanks. Yeah, I dug into the story a bit before posting, seemed to unreal, but as far as I can tell, it checks out.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Fantastic! the image looks a foto!!! it´s almost to good to be true!
May 21st, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Yep… this is truly an amazing example of the artist as magician.