Part-time artist creates stunning drawings with standard ballpoint pens., page 2

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Stunned

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Wow, that is very impressive. Look at the hair on that tiger... I have never been good at drawing, but my sister is... my artistic talents are spent on music more or less.

Originally posted by speculativeoptimist
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Incredible!!! One pic took him 30 hours, wow! It is hard to believe this kind of work can be done with pens.
It reminds me of the artist Paul Lung, who takes weeks to finish one drawing. Man these guys must be zen masters to sit for so long, focusing on a small space and making tiny lines.
Nice find!

Peace,
spec

edit on 23-8-2012 by speculativeoptimist because: (no reason given)

Awsome drawings ... the owl is classic.

It's great to see so many people enjoy and appreciate his art-work.

His website deviantart has had over 80 000 additional page views in the past 24hrs.

I'm just glad to be here, I want to learn a lot, see a lot, and enjoy to its fullest what other fellow artists have to share.
....Samuel Silva.

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Nice piks OP,

Geeze, Enigma, That's the most real and creepy interpretation I've seen of a grey, hey, If your interested in that subject, I'm looking for someone to share a few concerns with, if you ever want to U2U me

Originally posted by alfa1

Originally posted by Perhaps
Portuguese Lawyer and part-time artist Samuel Silva can dedicate up to 60hrs creating one of his visual masterpieces, all done with standard Bic ballpoint pens.

Other, less impressed people just call it COPYING.

He gets a PHOTOGRAPH somebody else has taken, and makes a COPY of it.

The Jaguar, for example. The original photo can be found here at this site.

I'm not saying photography doesn't take talent (it does) but what this artist did is much more impressive.
And in ball point pen no less. It didn't take the photographer 60+ hours to snap that picture off.

Other, less impressed people just call it COPYING. He gets a PHOTOGRAPH somebody else has taken, and makes a COPY of it.

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In other words, he LOOKS at the photograph and DRAWS what he sees.

A portrait painter looks at his subject and paints/draws what he sees - Would you call that copying?

A landscape artist looks at the landscape and paints/draws what he sees - Would you call that copying?

A still-life artist looks at the bowl of fruit and paints/draws what he sees -Would you call that copying?

Apart from that - if he'd made a copy of somebody else's photograph, it would be another photograph, therefore it wouldn't be a drawing.

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five thumbs up from me...AWESOME!!!

reply to post by BBobb

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g,day mate. ok you crack me up im laughing. a lot. well done

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