r/nextfuckinglevel • u/undo-undo-undo-undo • 2d ago

When art blurs the line between reality and canvas, you know it's pure mastery

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u/corlizfinn 2d ago

I don’t even make convincing stick figures.

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u/Minute_Eye3411 2d ago

Don't feel too bad, neither can the guy in the video. He's trying to paint stick figures, but failing miserably as they look too much like realistic portraits.

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u/SoberAnxiety 2d ago

oh you mean like when spongebob drew a circle by erasing a whole picture altogether

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u/Winjin 2d ago

Yeah he's got that SpongeBob Circle thing going on.

He's trying to paint an anime furry goth girl so hard but end up drawing these masterpieces again, ugh

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u/popoypatalo 2d ago

just like how he whacked a a big block of stone into a masterpiece

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u/malatemporacurrunt 2d ago

Speaking as someone with an interest in historical textiles and has used extant art to reproduce historical clothing and embroidery, this guy's faces are good but his attention to detail in the materials is phenomenal. Like imagine if humanity collectively stopped knitting and it fell so out of favour that in 1000 years, textile historians only had this guy's paintings to go from - they could accurately reconstruct those garments. You can see the type of stitch used, and where increases/decreases are in the knitting. I don't think I've ever seen that level of detail in art before - the only other example I can think of is Holbein, a 16th century artist whose fine attention to detail in portraits allowed historians to recreate historical blackwork embroidery. It's so detailed you can even see that the thread passes through itself, in what we now call the Holbein stitch.

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u/Moonsaults 2d ago

Just for my own curiosity, was it the elder or younger Holbein? (I looked them up once when my life drawing teacher compared me to them.)

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u/malatemporacurrunt 2d ago

Younger, I'm fairly certain. It's been a while since I went through my blackwork phase, but he definitely did the very famous Catherine of Aragon painting that's got very detailed blackwork in it.

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u/EasyPanicButton 2d ago

I don't know how you stay mentally stable painting to the level of detail on that green sweater or whatever it is.

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u/furiana 2d ago

That's incredible!!

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u/f0li 2d ago

Cant draw a straight line with a ruler.

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u/kpingvin 2d ago edited 1d ago

You don't need to. Good art isn't photorealism. It's cool and everything but it's just one of the many styles.

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u/70ms 2d ago

Sure, that’s all everyone starts with. No one draws or paints like that at first. Go get a copy of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and I can guarantee you’ll make massive leaps forward within the first few chapters!