Amazing portrait of Morgan Freeman finger-painted on an iPad

[RaduTyrsina]

Artists can do crazy things with such a versatile tool like Apple’s iconic iPad tablet. Recently, Kyle Lambert, an artist from UK, has posted a video online showcasing the photo-realistic portrait he drew of actor Morgan Freeman using only his fingers and his iPad.

The fingerpainting artist spent more than 200 hours working on the digital work, which represents one of the world's most realistic finger painting so far. Lambert has used the iOS app Procreate and made over 285,000 brushstrokes to get to its final form that you can see in the above picture.

The time-lapse video depicts the entire time-consuming process of painting with incredible accuracy all the details of Morgan Freeman’s face - facial hair, freckles, tiny beads of sweat and even the moisture. Here’s how the “About†page on Kyle Lambert’s reads like:

My work combines my passion for art, technology and storytelling. I trained as a traditional oil painter/illustrator and consider my main strengths to be the manipulation of colour, light and form to visualise story sequences, character designs and environment concepts.

I have a fine attention to detail, a strong work ethic and place a lot of emphasis on research and experimentation in my work. I thrive on the constant challenge to learn and improve as an artist and love what I do. My clients include Apple, Adobe, BBC Television, GQ Magazine, Paramount Studios, Pixelmator, Savage Interactive and Wacom.

What do you think of Kyle’s work? Can this still be considered art, even if such a high-tech tool like an iPad was used?

Source: CultofMac

 

[AQ_OC]

Amazing. I thought that was a photo!

 

[Mickey330]

That truly is wonderful! Such talent.

Marilyn

 

[AQ_OC]

Boy...did he have to stop between each stroke to record the change to make this? The guy really gives meaning to the phrase "Patience of Job".

 

[zstairlessone]

Gobsmacked!

 

[dgstorm]

amazing! Thanks for sharing this.