January 2021 - Awesomebyte

Diorama Artist Makes Realistic Miniature Models of Familiar Places
If Lilliputians, the tiny people who figure in Jonathan Swift’s iconic fictitious story ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, were alive, they’d have certainly adored Taiwanese diorama artist Hank...

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Arts, Creative, Peoples
by Deepak Mehla 3 years ago3 years ago

If Lilliputians, the tiny people who figure in Jonathan Swift’s iconic fictitious story ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, were alive, they’d have certainly adored Taiwanese diorama artist Hank Cheng. This is because this miniature artist creates actual models of houses, grocery stores, and places he’s familiar with in miniature size, fit for those Lilliputians! Cheng creates dioramas of...

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Virtual Reality Art of Anna Zhilyaeva is Something Really Unique
Anna Zhilyaeva is an immersive artist. If you’re wondering what this is, it’s simply being physically present in a non-physical world through a virtual reality...

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by Deepak Mehla 3 years ago3 years ago

Anna Zhilyaeva is an immersive artist. If you’re wondering what this is, it’s simply being physically present in a non-physical world through a virtual reality (VR) headset and painting images in a virtual reality environment. Although VR can be experienced only by the one wearing a VR headset, she has developed a technique that allows...

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College Student Enters People’s Hearts Through Crocheted Pokemon Figures
Now here’s a college student, called Jazz, who loves to crochet! Although currently studying Information Technology, she has fallen madly in love with Amigurumi, a...

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by Deepak Mehla 3 years ago3 years ago

Now here’s a college student, called Jazz, who loves to crochet! Although currently studying Information Technology, she has fallen madly in love with Amigurumi, a form of crochet, and aims to create all 982 Pokemon figures to donate them to The Child’s Play Charity, a charitable organization that donates toys and games to children’s hospitals...

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One-Line Artist Creates Sweet and Sensual Works of Art from a Single Continuous Line
Can you draw a face with a continuous line without lifting your pen or pencil? You can certainly draw the outline of the face and...

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by Deepak Mehla 3 years ago3 years ago

Can you draw a face with a continuous line without lifting your pen or pencil? You can certainly draw the outline of the face and even the two ears on the sides, but making the eyes, nose, and lips without lifting the pen or pencil looks well-nigh impossible. Well, not to this amazing line artist,...

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Origami Artist Creates Complex Fantasy Figures from a Single Square Sheet of Paper
Origami elicits images of simple 3D constructs with paper, such as birds and animals. But this isn’t the only thing that a sheet of paper...

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by Deepak Mehla 3 years ago3 years ago

Origami elicits images of simple 3D constructs with paper, such as birds and animals. But this isn’t the only thing that a sheet of paper can achieve, it can be folded in incredibly complex ways that seem impossible. Who better than Juho Könkkölä, a 23-year-old Finnish origami artist, to know this, who has been practicing...

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Realistic Portraits by Marco Grassi
Want to show off perfect skin in your picture? Forget airbrushing or Photoshop retouching, simply contact Marco Grassi, who has mastered the art of creating...

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by Deepak Mehla 3 years ago3 years ago

Want to show off perfect skin in your picture? Forget airbrushing or Photoshop retouching, simply contact Marco Grassi, who has mastered the art of creating such realistic oil paint portraits that depict unblemished skin, so much so, that it’s hard to tell whether it’s a painting or a photograph. This 30-year-old Italian artist explains his...

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Artist Brings Fairies Down to the Earth in the Form of Incredible Wire Sculptures
Fairies not only exist in fairyland but on this earth too. And Robin Wight, an artist, is the one who brings them to life here...

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by Deepak Mehla 3 years ago3 years ago

Fairies not only exist in fairyland but on this earth too. And Robin Wight, an artist, is the one who brings them to life here on earth. He creates wire fairies that look so enchanting as if one is visiting a fairyland. Wight was always passionate about art since his childhood and enjoyed pencil sketching....

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Weird See-Through Art Explores the Relationship Between Inner Self and Outer Appearance
A tangle of limbs, torsos, and other body parts give way to a view of rib cages, bones, and skulls. Quite unsettling, you’d think. Hey!...

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by Deepak Mehla 3 years ago3 years ago

A tangle of limbs, torsos, and other body parts give way to a view of rib cages, bones, and skulls. Quite unsettling, you’d think. Hey! No. It’s the new form of artwork by Joe Read, who aptly calls himself s.e.e.t.h.r.o.u.g.h on his Instagram page. Read’s work, though kind of weird, seems to explore the relationship...

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British Contemporary Artist’s Incredibly Realistic Paintings Look Like Photographs
If someone doesn’t tell you, they’d seem like ordinary photographs of places and scenes that one comes across every day or in picture postcards. Actually,...

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by Deepak Mehla 3 years ago3 years ago

If someone doesn’t tell you, they’d seem like ordinary photographs of places and scenes that one comes across every day or in picture postcards. Actually, these are incredibly crafted paintings of Darren Reid, a contemporary realist painter based in Derbyshire, England. His creations look so real they can easily be mistaken for photographs. Reid is...

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Artist Makes Iconic Portraits and Incredible Works of Art with Found Objects
Discarded items are usually consigned to the dustbin. But artist Jane Perkins has found a novel use for these. She uses miniature toys, buttons, beads,...

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by Deepak Mehla 3 years ago3 years ago

Discarded items are usually consigned to the dustbin. But artist Jane Perkins has found a novel use for these. She uses miniature toys, buttons, beads, plastic pieces, LEGO pieces, shells, and other discarded items that she finds to create her classic works of art and incredible portraits. So incredible are these that they look like...

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Nester Formentera Creates Incredible Drawings Using Lines
Sketches in a pen or pencil are a common sight. But here’s an artist who offers his unique ‘line artwork’ using pen, which creates an...

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by Deepak Mehla 3 years ago3 years ago

Sketches in a pen or pencil are a common sight. But here’s an artist who offers his unique ‘line artwork’ using pen, which creates an optical illusion, where the subject appears to jump out of paper. This artist is Nester Formentera, who was born in the Philippines and later migrated to Ireland with his family...

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