This Is Not A Photograph

Step by Step Illustration after the jump:

Hard to believe, but that's what the artist says and he has the skills to make it so. Then again, who are you going to believe? The artist or your lying eyes?



"This is a painting completed in February 2005. It was a Portrait Class project that I decided to finish in my spare time after the workshop. It probably took a total of around 65-75 hours to complete. The small images are step by step photographs taken during the painting process, and the large image is the final painting after detail and skin texture are added with an eraser and colored pencil. The main colors are blocked in at the beginning, but refinement is withheld until the very end. Look for a more complete step by step article in an upcoming magazine issue~Dru Blair" -- Blair Art Studios