This is not a real person...

[MrScorpio]

This is actually a drawing.

http://izismile.com/2009/02/27/ordinary_girlfrom_the_first_sight_7_pics.html

[Tom_Foolery]

1. That is amazing!!

[Capn Sunshine]

2. Why waste all that effort , and put a dress on her?

maybe he's never seen a real girl naked. With that talent , I would totally rule out clothing.

[kentauros]

5. Because painting photo-realistic clothing is at least as difficult

and realistic skin. Notice the pores?

This guy is a fine artistic talent and we should celebrate what he can do, instead of asking for "easier" product ;)

[Generic Brad]

3. I , myself, have repeatedly been accused of not being a real person

But she is way more attractive than I.

[frogmarch]

4. Wow!

That is amazing!

[applegrove]

6. For some reason I don't believe it. I want to believe that it was all painted but

I think they could of just photoshopped it backwards. It is too real. Weird. I .... can't..... believe...

[RandomThoughts]

7. So you are saying I am suppose to believe

that is a drawing because some article says it is?

Might that be turning the topic of believing something real, inside out?


CGI has been capable of resolution equal to pixels on movies for awhile, so you don't really know when it is CGI or real.


Or as said years ago, probably when all that crap started.

Is it real?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZyFcJcZiaU


However there are some things that can be proven, like.

I am due beer and travel money and good experiences, and that has not happened yet, unless you stop and think maybe all my comments on wanting beer and travel money is outside of linear time :) Then it would have happened already :) I spent years playing pool on the road :)

Although still due beer and travel money and good times :)

[kentauros]

9. I know most people these days automatically think "CGI" and "fake"

but most don't really know what it takes to be an airbrush artist, or just how realistic you can get with that tool. I have used an airbrush and know firsthand its capabilities in creating believable art. I was never all that good with it, but it still got me some high grades in graphics classes.

These days, the only experience anyone seems to have with an airbrush, is the "airbrush tool" in PhotoShop or Corel Painter. They've never actually painted with real paint, a compressor, a piece of chrome-steel with a paint-bucket and a nozzle, and sheet/liquid mask-off.

By the way, "Airbrush Action" is a high-quality industry magazine for airbrush artists. I would expect them to present articles that are real and true, same as any magazine devoted to a particular field of endeavor or art.

Go to the artist's site and make up your own mind. But I have no problem accepting it as a painting (calling it a drawing is about like calling Monet's "Water Lilies" a colorful stipple drawing, too...)

http://www.drublair.com

[RandomThoughts]

13. When I made the Penguin Derby display I spoke of in an earlier post

A display at a grocery store, I used an air brush to paint a tunnel the race came out of :)

So I have used real air brushes.

Might not be the same thought :)



It was pretty cool display. Had doweling every few feet, suspended from the ceiling, and ribbons as the road, then a suspension bridge, and even had displays on each freezer case, and cars with bios.

The mural as the start point was painted as a tunnel the road came out of.


I think there are pictures of it in Albertsons monthly magazine from the 90s, was Midway Albertsons.

[kentauros]

14. If you have a photo, you should post it.

:D

The airbrush is an amazing tool, and I love the effects artists can get with it, and have been doing for decades. Vargas, Olivia, Martin Mull, all fine airbrush artists.

But when I say "most people" I'm referring to those that have the knee-jerk reaction of "fake!" without even thinking it through further. That's because they've never gotten their hands dirty with physical artist's media. They only know PhotoShop, Painter, Poser, 3DMax and all the other computer art programs. Working with an airbrush is pretty well unknown to them.

I've seen some great computer art (especially on this board, like from CMW) so I accept it as a legitimate artist's tool, too. I just don't expect a whole lot of depth from those that say 'fake' and not much else. They simply don't have the kind of artistic experience, or exposure, to all kinds of art like those that know how to give a more reasoned response ;)

My best airbrush piece, by the way, was completed in four hours, from a blank board, from 1am to 5am. On a weeknight. Deadline in class the next day. :P

[RandomThoughts]

15. If I posted the picture, you would ponder for a second.

Then think for a moment, till you realized...

That's where the flying cars are!!!!

and.

The Penguins Are Flying!!!!!!

:)



Side note, I used to work, and worked hard.

Without any self claims. But for so many people that work hard every day, following the rules, and deserve justice. And even when treated wrong, they keep working for better ideas for many people.

Superman song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUIPlLw2ZE

[kentauros]

16. So long as the Penguins are flying them,

and not your average human! :P

[hippywife]

18. I agree this is a painting, not a "drawring." LOL

But I went to his website and browsed the thumbnails in his gallery. His taste in subjects leaves a lot to be desired.

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. I spent years playing pool, too. Come to think of it, I am due beer and travel

money as well. See you on the road, or did I?

[edbermac]

8. Neither is she.

:P

[Courtesy Flush]

11. How do you K&R individual posts? n/t

[EnviroBat]

10. Those freak me out.

I've been watching a series of those on YouTube and I think that they are amazing. Creating photo-real images of people that don't exist. Weird.

[Redstone]

12. Un. Fucking. Believable. And I do that stuff for a living...I salute that guy, even though

his website breaks my browser, for some reason.

Redstone

[blogslut]

17. Pfft

Pencil:



Just kidding about the Pfft comment. That photorealstic airbrush portrait is breathtaking. :hi: