Latvia-based artist Alex Konahin creates extraordinarily ornate, detailed and beautiful drawings like these using just pencils, pens and india ink. We did a review on his works year ago covering his art done not only by classic materials but even personal blood. For now please check his latest painstakingly intricate series of floral insects and other creatures.
Killing illustrations from Odessa-based artist Dasha Pliska, check them all on www.behance.net/zarbie
Killing illustrations from Odessa-based artist Dasha Pliska, check them all on www.behance.net/zarbie
London based artist Jacob Everett does huge hand ballpoint drawings with machine-like patterns.
I am a portrait artist working with biro on paper. I produce large-scale portraits using an intricate technique of overlapping elliptical marks, which gradually build to represent the subtle contours of the face. In common with digital images, my works, close up, appear as thousands of tiny ‘pixels’. When viewed from a distance they reveal the subtleties and nuances of individual character.
Pat Boas is an artist, writer and educator. Her drawings, paintings, prints and digital projects explore the play between words and images, the nature of codes and the arbitrary quality of the systems we use to communicate. With sources that include children’s homework exercises, newspaper headlines, web icons, crowd-sourced image banks, Shaker spirit drawings and the conventions of natural history illustration, she scrambles and reshapes information to release hidden stories from familiar grammatical structures. via
As my granny said - if you can't draw an eye looking at you than you're not an artist. That does not mean Franco Clun is only an artist just because he does it but for sure he is a greatest photorealistic draughtsman I've ever met
Kelvin Okafor made a photo fixation of the "behind the scenes" for his latest portrait drawing called "Mana".Take a look how freaking empty page went live under his hands.
View full series on http://kelvinokaforart.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/mana-evolution.html And on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kelvin-Okafor-Art/109909719036016?sk=photos_stream
”The drawings are part of an on-going evolutionary process of exploration and development, and thus serve only to mark and represent a particular stage in my abilities and understanding. Current on-going experimental ‘drawing’ includes very large scale drawing, based around the human figure, which are very different in character from the pencil portrait and ‘flesh’ figure drawings which are featured here. Some of the new work is abstract in nature.” – Cath Riley
"British artist James Mylne makes photo-realistic images using essentially a ballpoint pen, and sometimes he mixes other materials such as ink, marker, and spray paint. His drawings demand a great deal of concentration because one wrong stroke, can spoil the whole portrait." via Illusion Scene 360
I think sometimes the drawing procrastination on Geography studies can help to form the future of an artist. But that is not what happened to Edward Fairburn that uses geographical maps as a canvases just giving them a new life through drawing awesome portraits.
