Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/23/hello-my-name-is-artis.html
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The technique of doing them all on the single-row roll is impressive. I’ll bet she’s wicked good solving Rubik’s cubes too.
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That is most impressive. Whatever the technique is behind composing the images, it appears to be a real feat of skill.
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Did she grid a draft portrait and then look at it while drawing on these stickers?
I wouldn’t have thought that anyone could visualize a portrait, draw the grids individually, and have everything work out like this without a reference. Or can they?
Most things that I can’t do, I can at least imagine someone else being able to. But this one boggles my mind (if she has no draft to reference while drawing).
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Did you know the word “gullible” is not actually even in the dictionary?
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I have a feeling that it’s possible. Difficult of course, but I imagine that with a few years practice this is something most of us can do. It doesn’t appear that she’s doing it all from memory, she’s using a ruler to measure something in the video.
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Reproducing what’s in a grid cell is an old technique.
It’s not a great way to get better at drawing in general but it can help you make a particular image.
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Yes, but is the artist visualizing Eminem and then drawing her imagined grids (out of order), or has she sketched him, placed the grid, and then proceeded to systematically “copy” the off-camera grids for our enjoyment?
I assume this is a selectively edited video but wonder if someone’s artistic brain can actually see the world this way.
Lord knows I can’t.
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I assumed the latter.
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Indeed she could have another roll out of frame that was laser printed from a master image, and just be copying the printed cells, already aligned to the hello grid, for all we know. That is how I would go about it since I have no such talent. I wonder how our perception of this feat would change if it were a robot arm instead of a human arm scribbling.
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It would be pretty easy (and sensible) to have a reference sheet (or even screen) off camera. Not sure why Rusty assumes there isn’t one. The effect looks like a common photoshop filter, I suspect its just applied and then the image gridded and copied.
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Hmm, I assumed the (broken-up) image was very-lightly printed on the tags beforehand—like an underdrawing on a canvas for an oil painting—pale enough not to be seen in the video, but visible enough for the artist to just follow the lines and fill it in…
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it certainly is, and its a classic; under “filter” go to “scetch”, select “halftone pattern” opens sub-menue, “pattern type” - “circle”, et voila.
This guy has an unusually good overall image recall
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he must be a mutant; this is fucking amazing! I had no idea. what a great understanding and visualization of 3-dimensional space…this guy blows my mind. imagine he would lived and draw in the 1400s, he would have changed everything!
yep, I have to draw more. a lot!
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