You Won't Believe How This Portrait of Morgan Freeman Was Made

[Steve Williams]

http://gma.yahoo.com/won-39-t-believe-portrait-morgan-freeman-made-200050112--abc-news-tech.html

 

[Phelonious Ponk]

Remarkable. But one has to question the point of spending 200 hours "painting" a perfect reproduction of a photograph that was shot in a split second.

Tim

 

[JackD201]

Remarkable. But one has to question the point of spending 200 hours "painting" a perfect reproduction of a photograph that was shot in a split second.

Tim

I guess that is akin to asking why people climb mountains.

 

[GaryProtein]

The graphic artist certainly made an excellent representation of the original photograph, but it is very misleading to call it a painting.

A painting is made with real brushes and real paint on canvas or panels.

Just out of curiosity, I would like to see exactly how accurately this was accomplished by having the original photograph and the copy posted side by side in Hi-Rez.

 

[Phelonious Ponk]

I guess that is akin to asking why people climb mountains.

I suppose. Not the most efficient way to get to the top of a mountain. But there is an adventure, a physical challenge involved. This one just seems pointless to me, but maybe that's just me.

Tim

 

[Steve Williams]

I suppose. Not the most efficient way to get to the top of a mountain. But there is an adventure, a physical challenge involved. This one just seems pointless to me, but maybe that's just me.

Tim

Let's put it this way......it's better than Etch A Sketch

 

[amirm]

It is remarkable. I don't have 10% of those skills .

Here is the video by the way:

 

[carolkoh]

That's been all over social media - Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. Certainly interesting "finger painting" isn't it??

 

[kach22i]

I heard about this, thanks for posting it.

 

[treitz3]

That is certainly one amazing "painter", if you will. Watching the video was certainly an eye-opener as to how painstaking the entire process was. Wow, just, wow.

Tom

 

[amirm]

What's remarkable is that half way through around 2:00 minute mark it already looked "finished" to my eye and then there is a ton more work to even simulate the light bouncing off his skin. Amazing attention to detail.

 

[treitz3]

You noticed that too? Kind of lowers Thomas Kinkade's great efforts to a whole other level. This places this artists efforts into a completely different arena.

Tom