Now thats how to doodle: The incredible pictures that look like photographs drawn with a ball point pen. By Leon Watson Published: 09:43 GMT, 24 August 2012 | Updated: 13:51 GMT, 24 August 2012 If you think these incredible images are photos, think again. They are in fact probably the world's most intricate doodles. It may be hard to hard to believe but the pictures below are created using standard ballpoint pens bought from places like Staples, eBay, Amazon and, the artist says, any good office supply store. They're drawn by Portugal-based attorney Samuel Silva, who describes his art as a hobby. Like a photo: Portugal-based attorney Samuel Silva, 29, describes his art as a hobby Silva has drawn images of wildlife, recreated masterpieces like Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and copied iconic photos so accurately they're almost indistinguishable from the original.
For his Redhead Girl, based on a photograph by Russian photographer Kristina Taraina, the 29-year-old used six different colored ballpoint pens which took some 30 hours to finish. This was Silva's first ever picture of a jaguar. The Dark Hedges by Gary McParland. Gorgeous Bird Paintings by Adam S. Doyle. Artist Adam S. Doyle who recently relocated to Hong Kong creates beautiful gestural paintings of birds, where the seemingly incomplete brushstrokes form the feathers and other details of the animal. In some strange way it reminds me of the story of the Renaissance painter Giotto who is rumored to have been able to draw a perfect circle without the aid of a compass, as if Doyle just picks up a dripping paint brush and in a few seconds paints a perfect bird.
In reality his work demonstrates a profound control of the paintbrush and careful understanding of the mediums he works with. Via email he tells me: Yes, what you see is what it appears to be—strokes of paint. I’ve always loved unfinished paintings because you could see the alchemic process of surface and paint transforming into a living person.
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