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ХУДОЖНИК (@art_beauty_2101)One day, one of Mikhaylichenko ‘s friends asked her to draw her portrait. Although Mikhaylichenko wasn’t sure if she could do it properly, she decided she would give it a try.
“I worked on the A4 portrait with a simple pencil for 10 days. I erased, redrew, and finished it many times,” she said in a statement on Bored Panda. “Then I realized that inaccurately portraying people, even the tiniest little dash plays a role, portraying incorrectly, everything goes in the waste. But I did it!”
The rest is history. After that, she worked on many other human portraits. And ten years later, she has painted over 250 portraits.
“Portraits give me great pleasure now, especially if it is a beautiful quality photo that makes incredible paintings! So remember the words of the great master Pablo Picasso and apply them to life,” she added.
If you are curious to see her development, check out the gallery below.
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]]>He likes finding interesting people on Instagram and using their faces as subjects. Over time, his inbox became full of messages from people who wanted to be involved or to commission him. He’s also not a stranger to asking someone to do a portrait of them in person.
“The other day I was walking down the street and a fantastic looking schoolboy with a huge afro passed me on the street. I very nearly stopped and asked if I could draw him but couldn’t quite summon the courage. When I got home I told my boyfriend and he said do NOT go round asking schoolboys back to your flat for a couple of hours so you can draw them. The voice of sanity,” he tells It’s Nice That.
Years of experience thought him not to judge a model before he does a drawing. He had done failed portraits of fashion models and gorgeous pictures of ordinary people with interesting features. Check out some of his work below and visit his Instagram for more.
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]]>“Imagine a photo of a person, and it has gone through the shredder to be discarded,” she described her work in an interview with Interlocutor, explaining that “this is the visual foundation for the sliced works.” According to King, through her manipulated work she hopes to elicit a strong response. The message being, she explains: “if it upsets you so much to see me destroy this luxury item—an object—why does it not upset you to see a person being destroyed in life?”
Naturally, her dramatic portraits (sliced or not), haven’t gone unnoticed. With some 333k followers on Instagram alone, King has received recognition both online and offline, having won several awards for her hyperrealistic portrait paintings. Her paintings have also been the subject of solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums internationally, showcasing throughout Canada and the United States, as well as countries like the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates. Her portraits are also found in both private and public collections worldwide including the MET’s publication collection.
According to King, her journey to becoming an artist doesn’t have a defined starting point. “I’ve been painting from before I could walk or talk,” she recalls. “While I was growing up you could see the art follow the lead of realism. My scratchy kid drawings started to become more refined the more I drew or painted. Hyperrealism was just the natural evolution of that refinement.”
Take a look at some of her incredible pieces in the gallery below, and follow her Instagram page for more.
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]]>To understand what we mean by that, all you would have to do is check out some of her artwork. The surrealistic nature of Sobieski’s paintings is beautiful, masterful, and wonderful weird in the best of ways. It’s the kind of artwork that you can stare at for hours and still find new interesting details in them.
Sobieski says that she got the inspiration for this series from “the human impulse to self-decorate”. Her works tend to be true to that inspiration with each portrait aiming to represent the accessories as reflections of the subject wearing them.
“It is my hope that these relationships speak to the tendency for nature and the human psyche to mirror each other,” said Sobieski. Most of Sobieski’s pieces are small-scale oil paintings and could be described as a mix of classical art with a surreal and dreamy feel.
Check out more of them below.
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]]>According to Kwietniewska, her interest in art sparked when she was just a child. “I was always very much into art,” she recalled in an interview with the Printed blog. “I was basically the child that painted all the Mother’s Day cards at school for other children that wanted a prettier one.”
These days, she creates custom portraits, sold through her online platform About Face Illustration. According to Kwietniewska, she launched her brand while on maternity leave with her first child in March 2016.
“If I had to pick my biggest achievement, it’s just being able to do what I do,” says the full-time artist. “When I was a teenager, I really wanted to study at the Florence Academy of Art, which is very expensive. At the time I thought that I’d never be able to go anywhere like that, but with About Face Illustration, I was actually able to pay to attend a very similar school in London! It’s something I never thought I’d be able to do before.”
After living and studying abroad in Spain, Italy, and London, Kwietniewska is currently in Poland, where she continues to work from home. Her hard work hasn’t gone unnoticed, and last year she became one of the emerging artists selected for In The Studio program with The Mall Galleries in London, operated by the Federation of British Artists.
You can purchase a custom portrait from her website or admire her work via Instagram.
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]]>“The figures are fictitious women, reconstructed models from my own photography,” explained the painter in an interview with Metal Magazine. According to Johanna, more often than not, these women tend to resemble her.
“Through them, I process my own circumstances, as they mainly are the heroines of my storylines translated from reality to imagination,” she explains.
Born and raised in Gelderland, the Netherlands, Johanna studied at ArtEZ, the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem, obtaining a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree. Since graduating, she has exhibited in multiple solo shows in the Netherlands, Europe, and the United States.
“I started out drawing and when I felt I needed color and size, I slowly switched to painting,” she reflects. “Those are my main outlets but I also love music, dancing, film, architecture, and interior design; also, clothing (in its least commercial form) fascinates me.” Indeed, her work seems to echo her love of fashion and art, in its many shapes and forms.
Johanna explains that her unique painting technique has developed autonomously and consists of a multitude of small paint strokes in unmixed colors. While her paintings seem realistic from afar, there’s a tension between reality and fantasy that lies just beneath the surface, and which becomes visible the closer you get.
The end result evokes a dreamlike state, which is both alluring and frightening: “When I work,” says Johanna, “I don’t consciously involve the spectator in my decision-making. I intuitively balance and process my own way of working, including in the storytelling aspects. So these are inherently my own types of female.”
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]]>“As a self-taught artist, my practice evolved a bit randomly at the beginning,” she told Artsy Shark. “As soon as I decided to take my art more seriously, I worked systematically to improve my skills, and above all to find my own style and narrative.”
Now a full time professional artist, her portraits have been exhibited extensively in Italy, UK, Mexico, China, Taiwan, Russia, USA and Austria. She also features in public and private collections all over the world.
Her work has also won her accolades. Raspollini was one of the “excellence finalists” of ART Revolution Taipei International artists Grand Prize Competition, and was awarded the invitation to show her paintings at the International Artists Salon at ART Revolution Taipei in 2019.
Influenced by pop culture and kitsch, her work has an experimental edge to it. While working mainly on paper and canvas, with her favorite mediums being acrylics and watercolors, Raspollini says she’s open to every kind of creative experimentation.
“When I was invited to Mexico for my first solo show outside Italy in 2018, I had the chance to learn how to create tile mosaics thanks to Mexican master muralist Cienfuegos,” she recalled. “I’m absolutely in love with this technique.”
Her characters, though urban looking, are often surrounded by natural elements. “Living in a small village lost in the Tuscany woods has probably played a large part in this aspect of my art,” admits Raspollini. Other sources of inspiration include the ’80s with its Kitsch movement and playful aesthetics. You’d want to check her out.
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]]>The Ghanian artist explained in an interview with Juxtapoz that his goal is “to capture what they want to say but cannot say in just one image. So that when you see the figure or the painting, you wonder who the person is.” We think he managed to do just that and showed us complex characters in still illustrations so that we can’t help but wonder about their stories.
Quaicoe’s work has been shown in exhibitions before. The next chance to check out his work in person will happen at Roberts Projects in L.A. from April to May 2021. In the meantime, you can check out some of his work below and find more on his Instagram page.
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]]>The Laos, Nigeria-based self-taught hyperrealist has been working on his skills for over five years and explains that he “constantly explores black identity and pride in an increasingly globalized world, as well as ideas surrounding Afrorealism.”
Being so detailed, Ukonu needs around 200 to 400 hours to finish each piece. He has many fans, and his drawings can be found in homes in Nigeria and other countries around the world. Currently, he has more than 75,000 followers on his Instagram page and has exhibited his works in his hometown.
If you doubt his realistic-looking portraits, check out the how-it’s-done videos on his social media platforms. Aren’t they astonishing? You can become a proud owner of one of his masterpieces by purchasing his art on his website.
Check out some of our favorites below.
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]]>“I got into visual arts through watching Looney Tunes, The Simpsons, and various cartoons through the 80’s,” said Rodriguez in an interview with Highlark Magazine. “I also used to stare at all the album covers in my uncle’s record collection.”
But it wasn’t until he was introduced to graffiti that he fully embraced his creative side. Based out of San José, California, Rodriguez learned the basis to his art through the graffiti scene, and later decided to expand his studies by pursuing a Bachelor in Fine Arts at California College of the Arts. “My eventual introduction to graffiti was what really shot up my passion,” he admits.
These days, his work relies on both his formal and unformal training, with most of his work a mixture between portrait art and street art. His practice includes two types of portraiture styles, to which he refers to as Topographical Portraiture and Type Faces.
The Topographical Portraits are created by stylizing a portrait with topographical lines and shapes, in a similar manner to those found through images on geographical maps. The Type Faces, on the other hand, incorporate typography and portraiture.
Though Rodriguez might have started out with his work exhibited in the street, these days his work is presented within more formal settings, which include public art spaces, museums, companies, galleries, and editorial publications. And with some 50,000 followers on Instagram, he’s one to watch out for!
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