Ol’ squid face from those terrible Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. His approach is a lot more abstract than a lot of his contemporaries, favouring unconventional angles and shading techniques. GSA graduate and all-round great artist, Jonny Shaw wields his pencil with a deathly precision that allows him to lock-in a staggering likeness in his subjects. Unconventional and abstract pencil drawing by Jonny Shaw.
HYPER REALISTIC DRAWINGS FULL
Focusing on a three-dimensional approach her pieces are full of intimacy and longing, exploring the often tentative relationships humans have with each other.
The work of English artist Cath Riley is centred on drawing studies and portrait illustration, with an emphasis on a photorealist style. He is particularly good at illustrating the reflections that come off his metal subjects.ĭelicate and humanist drawings by the talented Cath Riley. He started to draw cars at the age of 3, and by the time he reached his teenage years he was already drawing his own mechanical inventions. David KaoĪnother phenomenal self-taught artist, David Kao focuses his attention on pencil vehicular portraits. The metal reflections of cars and automobiles by David Kao. When you gaze fully at his fabulous creations, it is hard to comprehend that the only art instruction that he received was from a drawing instruction manual. Self-taught artist Franco Clun, from Italy, uses solely pencil and paper to get his desired effect. Three heads are better than one by Franco Clun. The way he manages to sketch the fur of a lion or the pose of a domestic cat, is truly commendable. His favourite subjects are very often animals, as opposed to humans. Paul Lung is a highly skilled pencil artist, one specialising in graphite realism drawing. The skill of his pencil is outstanding, whether he is rendering the wrinkles of an elderly man or the tears of a young woman, he achieves transcendence.ĭirecting his talents to the animal world is artist Paul Lung. German artist Dirk Dzimirsky is a master at capturing dark moods and human emotions in the smallest detail. Top: A beautiful black and white artwork courtesy of Franco Clun.Ī lovely hyperrealist drawing by Dirk Dzimirsky. The ones that we are looking at here all use the trusty pencil and paper to get their desired results. So much so that before tangible references and concepts were established, the initial depicted expression of a subject model seen in a dream illuminates and reveals the true image I wanted to capture in the first place.The goal of the hyperrealist artist is to achieve a photographic level of realism in their subjects, one that makes viewers gasp at the fact that they are looking at a drawing, not in fact a photograph.Īrtists working with this medium will use different materials, some go in for coloured pencils, others for graphite or charcoal. There’s a flow which happens naturally and organically when I’m in the zone drawing. But my original point of creative development is usually formed first in a vivid dream – the source of all my artistic creativity.ĭuring the process of creation, reference photos become less relevant and later abandoned. Photographic references are a necessary guide for me when developing tangible visual ideas to draw from. The only small difference is, I’m flying around publicly in one than the other.lol Both worlds felt like a dream in which I was completely aware of my breathing and fully aware of my conduct in any environment I found myself in.
I was no longer able to differentiate a dream from reality. Several years following I continued to do so until quite recently I stopped.
Around the age of 23 I bought a little journal and avidly decided to write down each vivid dream I had as soon as I woke up.
For a long while now I’ve been experiencing some truly sublime dreams.
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