art
-
This Artist’s Photorealistic Portraits Are Made From Hand-Stitched Threads Instead Of Paint
Video: From afar, the photorealistic portraits that Cayce Zavaglia creates look like they were painted with fine, hatched brushstrokes. But when you get closer you can see that each one is actually made up of thousands of threads, painstakingly embroidered by hand using a needle and endless patience.
-
Watch This Human Inkjet Printer Create A Portrait In 300 Hours With 3 Million Hand-Drawn Dots
Video: There are a lot of reasons to be impressed with David Bayo’s beautiful Astrée portrait created using a painstaking stipple technique. But what’s more staggering to me than hand-drawing 3 million individual dots is somehow finding enough spare time to dedicate 300 hours to a single work of art. I can’t even find the…
-
A Fun Optical Illusion Makes This Robotic Doodler Appear To Draw Faster Than It Moves
Video: Although clearly a clever artist in his own right, James Nolan Gandy shows that even the artistically-challenged can produce a masterpiece with some clever engineering. But just as impressive as Gandy’s drawing machines is this timelapse of one in action that makes it appear to draw faster than it actually moves.
-
This Trippy Music Video Is Made Of 3D Fractals
What you’re watching isn’t organic, but a computer-generated visualisation of complex mathematics. It’s a three-dimensional fractal.