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Is this a photo or a pencil drawing?

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Added: Oct-24-2012 Occurred On: Oct-25-2012
By: DEADBEEF
In: WTF, Creative, Sexy, Other Entertainment
Tags: photo, hot, chick
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  • It's a photo of a pencil drawing.

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
    The_Jason (90.88)  

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  • It's a drawing, used to do something similar myself, my Hendrix avatar is a black biro drawing from a photo. I started copying old photo's, B&w box camera snapshots and found I could enhance them, correct the contrast, bring up details and greatly improve on the original old faded photo but it's very time consuming and you have to concentrate single mindedly for hours at a time over days, weeks, got one pic that took me 3 yrs I made it into prints and sold 10's of thousands of them. I'm not More..

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
    neutrino (15.20)  

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  • Saw the pictures saw the video still call BS

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
    trickie (14.16)  

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  • Photo first - COPIED with pencil - second. The talent of a copy-ist, ape-r, imitator is NOWHERE near as important or valuable as an "original creator". So, the camera beats the pencil ... if, for no other reason than for speed.

    Real artists create images that cameras .... can't!

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
    Nepean109 (1013.00)  

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  • The answer is clearly pencil, because the OP wouldn't even have asked our opinion if it wasn't a trick question.

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
    NightCrawler (140.10)  

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  • I fell in love with this! it took him 200 hours to complete

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
    a2li2 (169.22)  

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  • If it's a drawing, it is extremely skillfully done. The resolution of the image isn't high enough to tell, however, so I did not vote.

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
    NotJim (1004.80)  

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  • It says in tags photo. Or is that to put us off. I didnt click on the link so I dont know.

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
    Mister_E (485.50)  

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  • Stunning, this artist is truly gifted. Ahhh the things I would draw myself if I had this talent..

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
    RustyNailer (1547.20)  

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    • @RustyNailer You'd be surprised how well you could do without training. We did it in school. You buy a transparent sheet with a grid printed on it. Put it over an image, and transfer grid by grid.

      With technology today, I'd use projection and you'd basically be tracing.

      Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
      ST0N3PONY (5025.62)  

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    • @ST0N3PONY

      Ever hear of the camera obscura? That was a famous technique for artists hundreds of years ago to draw landscapes.

      Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
      DEADBEEF (4157.06)  

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    • @DEADBEEF I know the name yeah. It was a pinhole basically, and an image was reflected inside a box or something and they traced it upside down?

      Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
      ST0N3PONY (5025.62)  

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    • @ST0N3PONY

      It was usually a room with a pinhole in the wall, later a lense. This shone onto the artist's canvas.

      The artist worked inside the room and did the drawing upside down.

      Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
      DEADBEEF (4157.06)  

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    • @DEADBEEF Yeah, I meant room. Obviously it would need to be big enough for somebody to work inside it. I remember seeing depictions in a text book or something. What was the time-period? 15th century?

      Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
      ST0N3PONY (5025.62)  

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  • Your answer is here: https://www.facebook.com/diegokoiart

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
    youtubesux (272.32)  

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  • The guy only posted three pictures of the work in progress even when he spent hours working on this picture. Some parts of the canvas are completely clean, no outline drawing or any other shading, completely white. Also the video is of a finished product. There is no doco on the work in progress. I say it's a fake.

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
    2Phast4Rocket (687.76)  

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    • @2Phast4Rocket

      There is doco in my link and you can see further work in progress with layout lines at

      https://www.facebook.com/diegokoiart

      Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
      DEADBEEF (4157.06)  

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  • wow, stunning talent. this works even better because her eyes are closed. eyes are probably the hardest part of the body to reproduce and make them appear alive

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
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  • I think they are liar's.

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
    big_tex (391.80)  

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  • Similar I guess to "NeoRealism" which I saw back in the 70's. In some cases the artists would project a photo image onto a canvas and using Acrylic Paints and Airbrushes would create works that were incredible.

    Posted Oct-25-2012 By 
    getevennotmad (432.10)  

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