Incredible pencil drawings astonish art critics!

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Here's some of his drawings:











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The website http://www.amusingplanet.com/ has featured such drawings in the past. They are always very interesting.

Here are some samples:

From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2009/04/photo-realistic-pencil-sketches-of.html:



From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/08/samuel-silva-incredible-photorealistic.html, the ball point pen drawings of Samuel Silva:



From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/01/photorealistic-ball-point-drawings-by.html, the ball point pen drawings of Juan Francisco Casas:



From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/10/javier-arizabalos-photorealistic.html, photorealistic paintings by Javier Arizabalo:



More photorealistic paintings at http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/08/photo-realistic-paintings-by-yigal.html by Yigal Ozeri:



From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/08/photorealistic-paintings-by-steve-mills.html, photorealistic paintings by Steve Mills:



Some pencil drawings of winter scenes by Guram Dolenjashvili from http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/01/pencil-drawings-of-winter-scenes-by.html:



And from http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/01/photorealistic-pencil-drawings-by-diego.html, some pencil drawings by Diego Fazio:

Is there something malformed about the img codes in the preceding posting? Or is the software for this site broken?

I suspect that the software is broken.

I suspect it's something to do with the URL code.

[b]eric76[/b}: Why not download them all, resize them to 800px at the longest end if necessary, and up them to Imgur?

What's interesting is that the url links seem okay. I haven't tested all of them, but those I tested are just fine. It's just the img links. The only conclusion I can make is that the software is buggy.

I've seen this a time or two in the past when I tried to post an image. On other occasions, though, the images worked just fine.

Let me try a few different variations:

The image as posted above:



The image without the "imgmax=800" portion:



Hmmmm. It shows up the second time in the preview mode. If the image link doesn't end in .jpg (or other valid image identifier), it must not handle the image correctly.

Let me try this without the "?imgmax=800" portions of the links:

From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2009/04/photo-realistic-pencil-sketches-of.html:



From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/08/samuel-silva-incredible-photorealistic.html, the ball point pen drawings of Samuel Silva:



From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/01/photorealistic-ball-point-drawings-by.html, the ball point pen drawings of Juan Francisco Casas:



From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/10/javier-arizabalos-photorealistic.html, photorealistic paintings by Javier Arizabalo:



More photorealistic paintings at http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/08/photo-realistic-paintings-by-yigal.html by Yigal Ozeri:



From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/08/photorealistic-paintings-by-steve-mills.html, photorealistic paintings by Steve Mills:



Some pencil drawings of winter scenes by Guram Dolenjashvili from http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/01/pencil-drawings-of-winter-scenes-by.html:



And from http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/01/photorealistic-pencil-drawings-by-diego.html, some pencil drawings by Diego Fazio:

That seems to have done it.

I think I may have just learnt how to post an image. thanks

This guy is amazing.

During classification nobody believed they were not photographs and that this was "impossible" etc.

Great talent! Brilliant. and £10,000 each picture for the artist now.

Jebus H. Kryst on a Krutch! Outstanding!

More from amusing planet.

From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/06/sharon-moody-photorealist-paintings-of.html, paintings of comic books:



From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2010/01/incredibly-photorealistic-vector-art.html



From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2010/03/incredibly-photorealistic-paintings-by.html:

If I remember correctly, this was what led me to the Amusing Planet website. I came across something by Nathan Walsh in a news report and did a search that led to the Amusing Planet web site.

From http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/06/nathan-walshs-oil-paintings-of-urban.html:







As in the rest of my posts here, the images are just samples. There are many more at the link provided.

It wouldn't surprise if Kelvin Okafor was on the spectrum somewhere especially since I read he draws from memory.

As per your query here: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt222525.html
When using the [img] BBCode tags the provided URL must start with "http://" (not "https://") and end with a filename of type jpg, png or gif.
In other words, only something which resolves directly and exclusively to an image filename will work.

Please also ensure that images are no larger than 800x600 otherwise they will be distorted by the forum software, because it fails to resize correctly when they are larger.

As I said, it's easier to resize and upload to Imgur.