Painting of Tica by Dru Blair

#1

I don’t know if this is old news, but have a look at this… :surprised

http://www.drublair.com/workshops/tica.html

#2

I’m in love. :love:

peace,

Lu

#3

i just cant believe thats a painting sorry…

#4

that is so a photograph…

#5

Well… the guy teaches art-classes… :wink:

#6

I assume he’s using a photo reference, though. He does airbrush paintings, mostly aircraft stuff for some reason, and teaches classes. Id say it’s pretty amazing.

#7

i’m sorry but that is not a painting

and if it is, why did he bother, its not an artistic interpretation with any style, its a complete copy - thus not art imho.

#8

mmm, as for art, well imho Nature is the greatest artist of them all, and we could only strive all our lives to honour and imitate her… but, my issue is that i just don’t believe that that isn’t a photograph :stuck_out_tongue:

if it IS a painting, well damn, that’s amazing.

#9

Wouldn’t you say he show an extreme technical talent? It’s made during a workshop, possibly to showcase techniques. If you want original material, his site is jam packed with it.

#10

there’s just no was Im going to give anyone the benefit of the doubt with an image like that. I cant find a single brush stroke in the entire image.

#11

it’s

A I R B R U S H

#12

I could be absolutely wrong and I’ll eat my words if proven otherwise, but I just don’t buy it.

I would be very easy to “reverse” engineer the work in progress shot. The the larger image is just too perfect, to the point where can actually see hair folicles which could be done, but I’m just not buying it. Does anyone have any other samples of this guys work?

Edit:

His website:
http://www.drublair.com/

I hate to call something out like this, but I just don’t buy it.

#13

He’s mostly doing aircrafts and star trek stuff, but I guess the techniques are the same.

http://www.drublair.com/subcat.asp?0=233
http://www.drublair.com/subcat.asp?0=203
http://www.drublair.com/classescat.asp?0=242
http://www.drublair.com/productgroup.asp?0=203&1=&33=135
http://www.drublair.com/works141.html
http://www.drublair.com/workshops/buffer.html
http://images.google.com/images?complete=1&q=dru+blair&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

#14

and last but not least:

http://www.drublair.com/workshops/oct01class.html

http://www.drublair.com/workshops/education.htm#one

#15

Hmm… Well, if it’s for real, then I’d say awesome job! And according to the site it does seem like he’s an acknowledged artist. Still, I’m having trouble believing this is an airbrush painting. There’s just so much detail in there, the shapes are convincing and the lighting and colouring seems so realistic. I don’t want to turn this into another “Is Killzone realtime or CG - thread”, but:

  • Doesn’t this seem like an odd way to construct a painting. It looks like he paints it(or airbrusht it, whatever) piece by piece. He paints a small piece of the face and keeps adding details to it, while all other things are left white. For somebody who has been schooled in art, and I would presume painting, that’s not a very common method, because it causes colour differations. However, I don’t know too much about airbrushing, so…

  • In the last photo, where the 3 guys or standing around the painting. Is it just me or does the painting actually look clearer/sharper/detailed than the actual people in the photo?

  • Just had a look at a couple of other pictures on his website. None of them are very large, but you can see that they differ in quality. Some are better than others, but none of them show this sort of realism.

Btw. I hate wasting time trying to find out if something is real or not, but it’s just so tempting.

#16

Whats the problem? He is just another Hyper-Realist. Go to an art-museum and keep an eye out for realistic and Hyper-realistic Painters.

#17

Perhaps there’s some answers to this in his so called buffer theory:

http://www.drublair.com/workshops/buffer.html

#18

I guess it’s just something that I would have to see in person.

There is some really impressive stuff on his site, but this one is different. There are elements in this work that just seem way too precise. I’ve never even seen masters get so precise as far as hair strands and small pores on the face and I can’t picture this guy cutting out a mask for every pore and strand of hair in under 80 hours.

I’ve seen tons of hyper real artists, but are you trying to say that this one doesn’t raise a red flag in your head about being a real painting?

#19

It looks rather suspicious to me. The progression captures look contrived, as though, it were reverse engineered.

However, if this is authentic, it’s an impressive technical exercise.

In regards to artistic merit, I’m not a big fan of hyper-realism – I just don’t see any creative validation in mimicry.

#20

Quoted for agreement. I was thinking the same thing exactly.

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