The Cellar - Oct 7th, 2019: Faces

They certainly don’t look like models on the runway or catalogs, they look like real people.
Old enough to have seen reality and been rode hard and put up wet.

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It’s hard for me to believe these are not photographs, they are drawings by Dylan Eakin.

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I've been training myself in photorealism since 2016. It's been a bit of a journey, but I'm finally at a place, where I'm truly
proud of my work.

I console myself with the thought he could already draw well at the beginning of those three years.

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Charcoal is the main medium I used, with graphite for the finer details. Every once in a while, I'll use tiny points of white
paint for the highlights.

http://cellar.org/img/faces3.jpg

All that depth and texture from black, white, and shades of gray. :smack:
I wonder if he's a descendant of Thomas Eakins?

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There's a picture of a woman on his site with nice boobs, nice tattoos, but her arms gave me a chill.