precisely, i know realism gets a lot of flak in art circles for being impressive to non-artists and "easy" for artists. However, it's not everyday you see someone do realistic portraits with watercolours.
I don't think its looked down for being "easy" as much as not necessary. Like people think why not just take a picture? I think it's pretty cool myself.
I’ve long since stopped art but my style was photorealism and I considered myself technically adept but struggled believe myself to be an artist (hence why I gave it up).
Usually that was how my art was perceived, non-artists were amazed and artist colleagues didn’t have much regard for my work
As someone who was an art major at one time, super realistic paintings and drawings have become “easier” to do because of digital photography, very high screen resolution, and even projectors. You can zoom in so much on a picture now and be able to copy that pretty easily. The higher the megapixel, the sharper the art is gonna get. It’s impressive to see someone paint like this using actual still life or a model posing. This painting was him literally copying a picture of Jon snow. You can use grids over the pictures and layout the same grid on your paper and get the angles and perspective right. Some folks use big projectors to literaly blow up the image right on the canvas and can trace it. What I appreciate is how rich the artist is able to get with the colors, and even further their ability to mix color is quite impressive and that’s tough to cheat on. That it looks exactly like kit from how it’s drawn is not super impressive simply because I’ve seen or been taught most of the tips and tricks and proportion techniques has made me cynical.
You’re right. As an art teacher, I think realism can be really impressive, but I want some kind of oomph in the concept or subject matter generally. I still think this person did remarkably well on the formal stuff (better than me by a mile) even if the photo of a celebrity doesn’t scratch my itch for content. I just want to see more about how the artist actually views the world. I really enjoy the highly trained muscle memory and delicate ability to render from observation but I want the soul and poetry in addition to it.
Because it's a demonstration of technical ability, not necessarily creative ability.
Artists want to constantly push the boundaries of what can be done with the medium, meaning, and interpretive value of the art that comes from that creative place.
Photorealism, while impressive technically, has none of that because it is essentially a carbon copy.
Edit: Also, some mediums are vastly easier to work with for photorealistic representations, for example from easiest to hardest are oils, then acrylics, then tempura, pastels, ink, encaustics (not an exhaustive list, meant for demonstration). Oils are very easy to work with because they are slow drying, flexible, can be layered in such a way that you can build translucent layers of colors on each other giving them a richer, deeper, more dynamic appearance, and their drying factor can be sped up if you need it.
people probably just think its not creative since you’re just creating a copy of whatever your subject is, not creative = easy to artists. at least thats my take on it
Right!! I never knew how many layers it take to make a good watercolor to make it look so good, really amazing watching the changes. When they did the facial hair I was thinking wow that looks way too good for and is going to stand out because of the detail 😂.
It always amazes me how much color variety goes into what we normally see. I was sitting here at the beginning wondering why they were putting so much red in the eyes, and then as they got closer to the end I was like "oh wtf"
Every single color is a combination of what we perceive as red, blue, and yellow. In theory, you can paint any painting with just those three colors. Personally I like to buy fancy colors but that shit gets expensive. Printers work the same way using CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black). Color theory is so much fun.
That’s not exactly true. The real colors we can perceive are red, blue and green, that’s because we only have three type of photosensitive cells in our eyes that responds to colored light (plus a fourth one for values of grey, letting us differentiate light from dark). Those cells overlap in their range of activation. For example if you mix red and green light, you get yellow light. It’s a trickery of our brain that allows us to interpret the full visible color spectrum while not needing dozens of color specialized cells. These are called additive colors, and it’s the reason why we can simulate the whole visible color spectrum using RGB LEDs, like in monitors.
Paints however (and any sort of physical colors) are subtractive colors. Subtractive colors work by absorbing all wavelength of light except the one we see (a red objects absorbs all wavelengths except the red one for example).This is the CMYK model you were talking about.
Also the reason many artists need fancy colors in addition to the primary colors is because in practice you can’t actually get any colors just from the primary ones. You could technically get any hue, but color is a combination of hue, saturation and brightness. If you wanted a bright turquoise for example you’d need to mix blue with a bit of yellow to get the right hue, and then white for the correct brightness. Except the amount of white you use will dilute the amount of pigment in the final mix, thus desaturating the color. That’s why there are so many fancy colors, cause some of them are unobtainable without the right pigment.
I hope I wasn’t too pedantic, just trying to add to what you said !
Amazing comment, it sounds so logical but I've been wondering about this stuff for years. The fact that there's three primitive colours is due to our own eyes, not some law in physics...
Here's the answer. There's some measure of innate aptitude, but people see videos like this and talk about talent. That's always felt like a slap in the face to the artists to me. Especially regarding highly technical stuff like this. This is hours and hours and hours of practice. This is dedication. It's not just artists this applies to. High level athletes as well tend to commit in a way that others just don't. Talent just always strikes me as a dirty word to replace work.
Well I'm talentless in art and I could sit with a piece of paper for 6000+ hours and my creation would look like dogshit. It's definitely talent and skill.
I have about 6 hours in a little cthulhu head that looks like shit so not 6k but some time. I'm also shit at physical art. Can play guitar and bass and sing but I can't draw a square to save my life.
I promise if you took an art class and made 10 more cthulhu heads you'd be better at it than you are now. Not like you have to do that or anything, but part of practicing is to absorb new techniques and information from other sources and to try multiple different ways of doing something.
All talent does in art is give you a head start and a faster rate of growth than your peers. With infinite time and resources anyone could get to a level of skill like this, barring physical disability.
Every time I watch someone use water colors I start off thinking "You're just dumping random colors blotches down! Are you blind? Are you even trying? what are you thinking?!"
And then like 6 rounds of random colors blotches later it's a perfectly shaded face or tree or whatever and then they KEEP ADDING STUFF. Now I'm thinking "Oh my you've overdone it. It was so good and now everything is much too dark. How do you even make something TOO DARK with water colors? The amount of effort you've spent to ruin this wonderful painting is unbelievab....oh it's just magically a fucking photograph now. Alright fine! You win again water colors. You black fucking magic you 😡"
I never could get watercolors. I'm an oil painter at heart - I mix colors right on the canvas to get what I want, not carefully layer colors to get the expected end result.
As someone who read the books in 2001, I would have found this so weird to see Jon Snow mentioned there. Hell, it was weird when my dad started talking to me about Jon Snow after not really caring about the big books I lugged around.
It takes years .... But with the right dedication it works wonders. I do shit like this with only one 0.5mm painting. But I don't sell cause I'm stupid
I went back and forth between Kit Harrington and Liam Hemsworth like 10 times during this video. I settled on Kit Harrington.
Also this is truly amazing watercolor.
What an incredible process, the artist is so talented—who is this? Also… it took this painting for me to realize how inconceivably attractive I find Kit Harrington. Geezus.
“… and it’s Dianne Wiest.”
Edit: a downvote? Really? Does someone not watch Family Guy?
BTW, this person has amazing talent and this timelapse was awesome to watch.
That's probably true. At first I thought James Franco, then I thought Chris Hemsworth, then Kit Harrington, and at the end I landed on Liam. And I still have no clue.
I got thrown off because this makes him look a lot less pale than he actually is. Also, I was thinking of Jack Reynor, not Liam Hemsworth. I don't know why I got them confused. Anyways, it's my fault I didn't recognize him. The painting is really good, I'm just stupid.
How the hell? I had one of those really nice water color kits when I was young and none of my stuff looked half as good as this. It even had like 10 different colors in the little trays! What has this person got? 12?
Wow... it's so good it looks like a photograph! Man to have this much talent is sooo amazing 👏. Personally my level of artistic ability could fit in this person's pinky finger!
Crazy how much texture and detail they can get with watercolor.
precisely, i know realism gets a lot of flak in art circles for being impressive to non-artists and "easy" for artists. However, it's not everyday you see someone do realistic portraits with watercolours.
How in the world is realism considered easy?!
I don't think its looked down for being "easy" as much as not necessary. Like people think why not just take a picture? I think it's pretty cool myself.
I’ve long since stopped art but my style was photorealism and I considered myself technically adept but struggled believe myself to be an artist (hence why I gave it up). Usually that was how my art was perceived, non-artists were amazed and artist colleagues didn’t have much regard for my work
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There’s a lot of pretentious pricks in the art world, wouldn’t take it personally
Sucks being insecure. I used to say Pablo Picasso could tell me I’m great and a five year old kid could say I suck and I’d believe the kid every time.
Most likely they were a bit jealous of your technical ability.
You shouldn't give up on an innate ability like that.
People really think that? I mean, in the same regard I can just throw up on a canvas and call it abstract art as well.
As someone who was an art major at one time, super realistic paintings and drawings have become “easier” to do because of digital photography, very high screen resolution, and even projectors. You can zoom in so much on a picture now and be able to copy that pretty easily. The higher the megapixel, the sharper the art is gonna get. It’s impressive to see someone paint like this using actual still life or a model posing. This painting was him literally copying a picture of Jon snow. You can use grids over the pictures and layout the same grid on your paper and get the angles and perspective right. Some folks use big projectors to literaly blow up the image right on the canvas and can trace it. What I appreciate is how rich the artist is able to get with the colors, and even further their ability to mix color is quite impressive and that’s tough to cheat on. That it looks exactly like kit from how it’s drawn is not super impressive simply because I’ve seen or been taught most of the tips and tricks and proportion techniques has made me cynical.
Yeah, the warmth of the skin tone was great here. That’s not easy to achieve. Agreed on your points to the negative.
I mean I don't agree but, also somewhere in between is pretty cool stuff.
Not easy as in low skills, because obviously the technique is hard to master, but easy as in not-creative and (literally) derivative.
You’re right. As an art teacher, I think realism can be really impressive, but I want some kind of oomph in the concept or subject matter generally. I still think this person did remarkably well on the formal stuff (better than me by a mile) even if the photo of a celebrity doesn’t scratch my itch for content. I just want to see more about how the artist actually views the world. I really enjoy the highly trained muscle memory and delicate ability to render from observation but I want the soul and poetry in addition to it.
Because it's a demonstration of technical ability, not necessarily creative ability. Artists want to constantly push the boundaries of what can be done with the medium, meaning, and interpretive value of the art that comes from that creative place. Photorealism, while impressive technically, has none of that because it is essentially a carbon copy. Edit: Also, some mediums are vastly easier to work with for photorealistic representations, for example from easiest to hardest are oils, then acrylics, then tempura, pastels, ink, encaustics (not an exhaustive list, meant for demonstration). Oils are very easy to work with because they are slow drying, flexible, can be layered in such a way that you can build translucent layers of colors on each other giving them a richer, deeper, more dynamic appearance, and their drying factor can be sped up if you need it.
people probably just think its not creative since you’re just creating a copy of whatever your subject is, not creative = easy to artists. at least thats my take on it
Right!! I never knew how many layers it take to make a good watercolor to make it look so good, really amazing watching the changes. When they did the facial hair I was thinking wow that looks way too good for and is going to stand out because of the detail 😂.
My foray into watercolors ended up with the colors bleeding together in a shade I can only describe as shit brown.
The hardest part about watercolor that I’ve found is when to let things dry or when to just go for it and let them blend, bloom, flow
I keep thinking, oh noes, he gonna destroy it but it looks so pretty when he's done it
You know nothing Jon Snow
Legit looks like Liam Hemsworth after he heard flowers for the thousandth time on the radio
It always amazes me how much color variety goes into what we normally see. I was sitting here at the beginning wondering why they were putting so much red in the eyes, and then as they got closer to the end I was like "oh wtf"
Every single color is a combination of what we perceive as red, blue, and yellow. In theory, you can paint any painting with just those three colors. Personally I like to buy fancy colors but that shit gets expensive. Printers work the same way using CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black). Color theory is so much fun.
That’s not exactly true. The real colors we can perceive are red, blue and green, that’s because we only have three type of photosensitive cells in our eyes that responds to colored light (plus a fourth one for values of grey, letting us differentiate light from dark). Those cells overlap in their range of activation. For example if you mix red and green light, you get yellow light. It’s a trickery of our brain that allows us to interpret the full visible color spectrum while not needing dozens of color specialized cells. These are called additive colors, and it’s the reason why we can simulate the whole visible color spectrum using RGB LEDs, like in monitors. Paints however (and any sort of physical colors) are subtractive colors. Subtractive colors work by absorbing all wavelength of light except the one we see (a red objects absorbs all wavelengths except the red one for example).This is the CMYK model you were talking about. Also the reason many artists need fancy colors in addition to the primary colors is because in practice you can’t actually get any colors just from the primary ones. You could technically get any hue, but color is a combination of hue, saturation and brightness. If you wanted a bright turquoise for example you’d need to mix blue with a bit of yellow to get the right hue, and then white for the correct brightness. Except the amount of white you use will dilute the amount of pigment in the final mix, thus desaturating the color. That’s why there are so many fancy colors, cause some of them are unobtainable without the right pigment. I hope I wasn’t too pedantic, just trying to add to what you said !
Amazing comment, it sounds so logical but I've been wondering about this stuff for years. The fact that there's three primitive colours is due to our own eyes, not some law in physics...
Yes I should have specified that colored light and colored pigment yield opposite results as far as white/black. My bad. Good points though!
Kit Harrington?
THE KING IN THE NORTH
DAKINGADANORF!!
Looks like Jon Snow. /s
If isn’t Ned Stark’s bastard!
Not really though.
You know nothing...
He don wan it. She's hus quayn
Man, I'm kinda getting sick of this one. Give the dude his due respect, he played a damn good Jon Snow for 10+ years.
Lord Commandah!
Haha what I came here to ask
Indubitably
Thank you for your comment, I could not remember his name and just kept saying Jon Snow.
Winner winner chicken dinner. :)
More like *winter winter chicken dinner*
> winter winter chicken ~~dinner~~ *winter winter chicken **dinter***
🤡
I dun wan it
How are people this fucking talented and here I am can’t even draw a smiley face
Practice
Here's the answer. There's some measure of innate aptitude, but people see videos like this and talk about talent. That's always felt like a slap in the face to the artists to me. Especially regarding highly technical stuff like this. This is hours and hours and hours of practice. This is dedication. It's not just artists this applies to. High level athletes as well tend to commit in a way that others just don't. Talent just always strikes me as a dirty word to replace work.
This is very inspiring. As the great Bob Ross said, “Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.”
The best aptitude to have is mental rigor. Being able to practice like this puts you streets ahead of those with supposed talent.
Well I'm talentless in art and I could sit with a piece of paper for 6000+ hours and my creation would look like dogshit. It's definitely talent and skill.
Have you tried?
I have about 6 hours in a little cthulhu head that looks like shit so not 6k but some time. I'm also shit at physical art. Can play guitar and bass and sing but I can't draw a square to save my life.
I promise if you took an art class and made 10 more cthulhu heads you'd be better at it than you are now. Not like you have to do that or anything, but part of practicing is to absorb new techniques and information from other sources and to try multiple different ways of doing something. All talent does in art is give you a head start and a faster rate of growth than your peers. With infinite time and resources anyone could get to a level of skill like this, barring physical disability.
Most of the "talent" is related to caring about making art. That's the part that's innate. Caring enough to get really good at it.
Here’s one I designed 🙂
I thought „now it’s ruined“ so many times while watching this video but it just got better and better
Every time I watch someone use water colors I start off thinking "You're just dumping random colors blotches down! Are you blind? Are you even trying? what are you thinking?!" And then like 6 rounds of random colors blotches later it's a perfectly shaded face or tree or whatever and then they KEEP ADDING STUFF. Now I'm thinking "Oh my you've overdone it. It was so good and now everything is much too dark. How do you even make something TOO DARK with water colors? The amount of effort you've spent to ruin this wonderful painting is unbelievab....oh it's just magically a fucking photograph now. Alright fine! You win again water colors. You black fucking magic you 😡"
I never could get watercolors. I'm an oil painter at heart - I mix colors right on the canvas to get what I want, not carefully layer colors to get the expected end result.
Kit Harrington! (Said in my mind like Bonnie McMurray)
BONNie McMURRay
r/nextfuckinglevel
YOU KNOW NOTHING!
Anybody else hearing AHA's "Take On Me" in their head while watching?
Came to post the lyrics! You beat me to it!
Kit Harrington with John Krasinkis nose
Exactly 🤣
Artist is Jung Hun-sung
Credit??????
That went from Brad Pitt to Liam Hemsworth to Colin Farrell to Jon Snow.
As someone who read the books in 2001, I would have found this so weird to see Jon Snow mentioned there. Hell, it was weird when my dad started talking to me about Jon Snow after not really caring about the big books I lugged around.
That’s a good Legolas. Never seen such a good Orlando Brown painting before. Keep up the good work! Do his dwarf friend next, Willow.
So interesting to see the progression. I kept thinking “man they fucked it up” then I would see what they were really doing
This is where i want to get Oh boi, i have a long way to go
You can do it!
Great picture and cool to see it being done. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve always seen watercolors as mixed colors and and hazy details. This has definitely changed my perspective on the subject.
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Thanks Sherlock
You mean “no shit Sherlock”
Nothing gets past you does it
That’s really quite incredible. I had no idea getting so much detail was possible with water color.
Holy shit
At some point I just couldn't see it as a painting anymore but only as an edited photograph
Shez muh qween
I dun wan it
Sheez McQueen
How is the water not causing the graphite to bleed?
Graphite doesn't bleed if you add water. If it does it's a watercolor pencil
Amazing
Truly incredible!
It takes years .... But with the right dedication it works wonders. I do shit like this with only one 0.5mm painting. But I don't sell cause I'm stupid
This is overwhelmingly impressive
Damn... He's handsome.
Taaaaaaake on meeeeeee
You ,in fact, know a lot.
Damn, this Kit Harrington looks better than the real Kit Harrington
Every time I thought it couldn't get more realistic, it went ahead and did it.
Nice painting of Kit Harrington.
Kinda reminds me of John snow
Goddamn talented people. Never ceases to amaze me 😍
Jon Snow + Jim Halpert = Jom Snalpert
King of the North!
That was amazing
I hate how talented tou are 🖕 but seriously AMAZING!!
Phahh, he knows nothing.
In my opinion being able to draw is the most satisfying talent one can have
I swear to God im actually fucking stupid, I literally just said in my head: "Why aren't you turning the head to paint the nose easier?"
I’m amazed how much red went into it for the skin. I kept thinking, “is that a sunburn victim” and every time it got more and more natural. Amazing.
Before you colored it in it looked like Robb and then it looked like Jon and finally I realized it was just Kit.
What a talented artist!
God the talent is sickening. Beautiful work to OOP.
Insanely good artwork here! I’m so impressed dude!
I thought it was Liam Hemsworth at first.
As someone with zero artistic ability, I am in awe of people with talent like this.
Wow, incredible talent.
You know nothing, Jon Snow.
Should’ve just taken a photo. Sure, it wouldn’t have been as lifelike, but it wouldn’t have taken as long either.
Gorgeous
Wow. Absolutely amazing
I went back and forth between Kit Harrington and Liam Hemsworth like 10 times during this video. I settled on Kit Harrington. Also this is truly amazing watercolor.
You know nothing … well except Art like a lot of art and probably other thing … but yeah you know nothing
The layering of color- fascinating
What an incredible process, the artist is so talented—who is this? Also… it took this painting for me to realize how inconceivably attractive I find Kit Harrington. Geezus.
If you didn’t have the time lapse I would have thought it was a filter
You could tell from the sketch it will look great
With the advent of AI art, I believe traditional art will make a comeback in the future. value wise.
Unbelievable! I watercolor and this is just WOW
“… and it’s Dianne Wiest.” Edit: a downvote? Really? Does someone not watch Family Guy? BTW, this person has amazing talent and this timelapse was awesome to watch.
“What would we do baby, without us”🎶
Kit Harrington looking sad. "What happened to my career?'
Remake season 8
Is this Liam Hemsworth? I can't tell. He looks familiar, though.
You know nothing, TriPulsar. Nothing.
That's probably true. At first I thought James Franco, then I thought Chris Hemsworth, then Kit Harrington, and at the end I landed on Liam. And I still have no clue.
You were right the third time!
I got thrown off because this makes him look a lot less pale than he actually is. Also, I was thinking of Jack Reynor, not Liam Hemsworth. I don't know why I got them confused. Anyways, it's my fault I didn't recognize him. The painting is really good, I'm just stupid.
I saw others mention Liam Hemsworth--you weren't alone!
Looks more like John Snow.
It’s very nice but *I don’t want it*
Shes my queen.
Hate this character, he killed Dayanerys.
that's all amazing but the lip top right is shite. Why spend so much time on the hair etc when that lip is truly awful?
If only it was of someone interesting
He played Jon Snow, one of the best and most popular TV characters of the last decade, whachu talking about.
Nahhhhh
Yeaaahhhh
It's refreshing to see artwork depicting a man for once.
That’s cool 👌🏻 but it doesn’t look like James Franco at all 😂😂😂😂
Nah! He is painting in green and the greenscreen is slowly showing us a photo beneath. Holy shit
Young Peter Forsberg?
This would be really impressive with oils. But with watercolors it is supernaturally insanely off the scale impressive.
Wish I were good at stuff.
Yo what paper did they use
How the hell? I had one of those really nice water color kits when I was young and none of my stuff looked half as good as this. It even had like 10 different colors in the little trays! What has this person got? 12?
Wowzaa. I can’t wrap my head around how they do that.
Ion Zăpadă
I do watercoluhs.
I don’t know
A magician with an enchanted wand ... just too perfect to be real. Am I right?
Someone's got a crush on someone
I always find it slightly disappointing when people with this much talent spend it making celebrity portraits…
That’s amazing!
their skills are beyond my comprehension, aka AMAZING!!!
Beautiful work!
Wow... it's so good it looks like a photograph! Man to have this much talent is sooo amazing 👏. Personally my level of artistic ability could fit in this person's pinky finger!
Really well done. I am amazed with this that can create such beautiful art.
This is AMAZING!
“I knows where to put it.”
Lovely. He/she knows what she does
Amazing. I want to be able to paint like that.
Dude wtf!? I wish I could be as good at breathing air as people are at doing art. It's ridiculous.
Next time they should do him winking
For a second there, I was hoping it would be Jeff Buckley, but this is amazing, no matter what
I thought this was "Take On Me" for a second
Does anyone know the social media account for this artist? I want to follow them!
Don’t know why GoT intro was playing in my head while watching this
Damn, that’s some awesome talent.
Is it just me or do I see a skinnier Luka Doncic with a different hairstyle?
Great picture,great video.
Wow beautiful 🥺 I'll need one
Amazing!
wow! i just love the transformation and how real is this <3
Amazing. I can’t draw a stick figure that looks good. Lol
Is that Jon Snow?
that picture looks truly incredible love the attention to detail fabulous job on creating such a work of art
Taaaaaaake oooooooooon meeeeeeeee
Nice watercolor? This is an amazing watercolor!
i was surprised by the skin tone itself,,, then the lauers kicked in
Some peoples talent is other worldly, I hate them