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He specialises in hyper-realistic portrait drawings of ordinary people and celebrities. His work is often mistaken for photographs due to their detail and likeness to reality. [9] The style in which Okafor creates his portraits is known as Hyperrealism. Art Critic, Estelle Lovatt describes his work as 'Emotional Realism'.
"Wildly Talented Nigerian Artist Made This Drawing Without Any Training Whatsoever | The Huffington Post". huffingtonpost.com "This Artist's Life-Sized Portraits Made With Charcoal & Graphite Are Incredible | BLAVITY". blavity.com; Hyperrealistic portraits, thisiscolossal.com. Accessed 26 March 2024.
Since it evolved from pop art, the photorealistic style of painting was uniquely tight, precise, and sharply mechanical with an emphasis on mundane, everyday imagery. [11] Hyperrealism, although photographic in essence, often entails a softer, much more complex focus on the subject depicted, presenting it as a living, tangible object.
Hendry's practice started as a hobby. She has no formal art training and considers herself "not very creative." [4] Her works are primarily hyper-realistic, large scale ink drawings of luxury objects that sometimes take 200 hours to complete. [5] Working with ink on paper her pieces are achieved through layers of what she refers to as scribbles.
Ken Nwadiogbu (popularly known as KenArt; born 1994) [1] is a Nigerian-born multidisciplinary visual artist, based in London. [2] He calls his "method contemporealism" – a fusion that is primarily centred on hyper-realism and contemporary art. [3]
Devon Rodriguez was born on April 8, 1996 [1] in the South Bronx to a family of Puerto Rican and Honduran descent. [2] At age 8, he began doing graffiti with his friends [3] but, after being arrested at age 13, he turned his attention to drawing portraits. [4]
Carlson creates much of her art on paper, using acrylic and oil paint, watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, graphite, and colored pencil to create her evocative and enigmatic tales. She frequently works on a wide scale, combining hyper-realistic photographs with indeterminate space or graphic patterning to produce a world that is both familiar and ...
Catherine Jenna Hendry (CJ Hendry) (born 1988): hyper-realistic, large-scale renderings using a scribbling technique; Euan Heng (born 1945): Scottish-born painter and printmaker; Lucien Henry (1850–1896): French painter in Sydney; Bill Henson (born 1955): contemporary photographic artist; Harold Herbert (1891–1945)