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    15 Oil Paintings That Look Like Photographs

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    I always found detailed painting more interesting that the abstract modern art stuff. Even getting the lettering right on that label and then painting the illusion of seeing the jelly beans through it is very difficult. Getting the proportions right and the layout right and the shading right. Very cool. Not the kind of painting you whip out in an hour or two.
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    i have a friend from another forum who is an astoundingly astonishingly good artist. my superlatives don't do him justice. while he produces oils and charcoals which look amazingly lifelike, he also delves into his imagination to re-imagine fairy tale scenarios, etc.

    if talent=money, this guy would be bill gates x warren buffett.

    hey, we got some clever ones on here, too! lookin at you jj and that art guy.
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    There's a good book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I took an art class that we were trained to not draw the object we interpreted in our minds but to look and draw the shading we saw. It helps to draw things that are turned upside down. One thing that messes up the realistic aspect is we tend to draw what we interpret in our minds and that's rarely realistic. You have to draw the shading you see and amazingly it comes out accurate. It really is the transition from going from drawing cartoon like characters to really detailed stuff. It's just the more detail you want the more time you have to put in. Then you have lettering. A lot of people who paint well don't letter well. I actually took a whole class on lettering for that reason. Luckily it was taught by an old school advertising man who had to do it with a brush and paint and not on a computer.

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    i wonder if anyone knows who i'm talking about???

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    Photo realistic painting is a like Yngwie Malmsteen.

    It's all very impressive and difficult but then you wonder what the point of it is and whether something so mechanistic is art or actually more like a craft...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    Photo realistic painting is a like Yngwie Malmsteen.

    It's all very impressive and difficult but then you wonder what the point of it is and whether something so mechanistic is art or actually more like a craft...
    people who render city skylines and perfect human faces constantly amaze me

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nitro Express View Post
    There's a good book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I took an art class that we were trained to not draw the object we interpreted in our minds but to look and draw the shading we saw. It helps to draw things that are turned upside down. One thing that messes up the realistic aspect is we tend to draw what we interpret in our minds and that's rarely realistic. You have to draw the shading you see and amazingly it comes out accurate. It really is the transition from going from drawing cartoon like characters to really detailed stuff. It's just the more detail you want the more time you have to put in. Then you have lettering. A lot of people who paint well don't letter well. I actually took a whole class on lettering for that reason. Luckily it was taught by an old school advertising man who had to do it with a brush and paint and not on a computer.
    In college our professors literally made us draw upside down. I didn't start drawing right side up for two years after, and once I did my realism was off. Not sure how or why that worked, but it did.
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    Omg, I just discovered this thread. Amazing!
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