Hyperrealistic pencil drawing

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No one’s out of the womb knowing how to draw. It takes a lot of time before childish scribbles take shape and become simplistic drawings that resemble something recognizable. The same goes with realistic drawings, which take exponentially more time to learn than just simple stick figures. It takes thousands of hours of hard work and patience.

Sixteen-Year-Old Artist Wins National Art Competition with Masterful Hyper-Realistic Pencil Portrait http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/04/sixteen-year-old-artist-wins-art-competition/

Malaysian artist Monica Lee is obsessed with details. But then again, I guess you have to be in order to create some of the most stunning photo-realistic drawings we’ve ever seen. “I like to challenge myself with complex portraits especially people with freckles or beard,” says Lee, who often works from photographic portraits to create seemingly identical drawings. Surprisingly, Lee worked in the digital world for 12 years before making the jump to illustration. More

This guy can draw pretty well, I guess. Scottish artist Paul Cadden uses graphite and chalk to create these meticulously detailed portraits.

A rose drawn with only 1 graphite pencil and 3 tools (visible in the image). 🌹 My artpage: www.instagram.com/artbysara_

Description and NOW it is done (and done ) I followed Warren's advice to add watercolor splashes on both sides in the background and i worked with the pencils some more, although i thought i would add pan pastels as a third layer, it turned out i didn't because when i reached at the specific stage something "clicked" inside me and i knew it was alright and i was already at the point that anything else added on top would simply spoil the image, and i didn't want that to happen ref image…