In the past 2021, everyone feels the hardships of life, but it has refreshed the cognition of numbers, one ice, one cool, one wei, and the number of over 100 million, which makes people directly blur the unit of measurement.
However, people who have studied painting will not have any bias in their understanding of material numbers, generally speaking, painting a charcoal work can use up to 10 charcoal strips, can you imagine a painting using 110000000 charcoal strips and pencils? How realistic does it have to be?
Putting aside this astronomical number, sketching is still realistic, like Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt, who can draw sketches to the extreme, there are really only a few. Even many modern and contemporary sketch artists rarely draw clearly, and their modeling ability and realism ability are still far behind.
Emmanuel Dascanio from Italy is a rare artist who can draw well, at first glance, his paintings look like photographs, but when you see him creating with a pencil or charcoal on paper, you will realize how exquisite his painting skills are and the value of his works.
Hyper-realistic creation is a technical work, but also a physical work, especially the works of Emanuel Dascagno, often a painting will be created for several months, in such a long time, carefully polishing a work, for the artist, is a big challenge. Emmanuel Dascanio often stayed in the studio all day, except for eating and sleeping, the rest of the time was used to paint, painting 14 hours a day, for him, it was a common thing.
Every bit of hard work, there will be a harvest, today Xiao Dai wants to share with you a sketch called "The Essence of the Universe", which depicts a surreal group portrait scene, Emmanuel Dascanio directly "sealed the gods" with this painting, this work is huge, 2.5mx 2.5m size, lasted two and a half years, according to Emmanuel Dascanho, 110 million charcoal strips were used to complete this work.
Created in a combination of pencil and charcoal, this surrealist sketch is depicted in incredible detail in each character against a pitch-black backdrop, with scattered hair, wrinkles on the face, demeanor, and posture. Although it is a contemporary work, it gives people a feeling of classic painting, quite like the work of the famous 16th-century painter Caravaggio.
The Nature of the Universe
The extreme portrayal of details makes this painting can be magnified and intercepted at will to observe and appreciate, and when the whole work comes into view, they have their full value.
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Other wonderful sketches by Emmanuel Dascanio: