No one can deny that talent is very important in creating stunning works of art, but it's not the only thing needed. In addition to talent, you'll need to learn more techniques and techniques that will allow you to creatively present realistic drawings. It's not hard to get a pencil and paper and start drawing. What is really difficult is to convince others that you are not creating photographs, but realistic pencil drawings or simple 3D drawings that make others think that they are seeing real objects and not just drawings. Do you have what it takes to do this? Let's learn more about this magical world with the following masterpieces of the world's top 10 best pencil artists.
10 Monica Lee – Malaysia
Monica Lee is a Malaysian pencil artist who is passionate about creating realistic drawings using graphite pencils. The main reason behind Monica Lee's success and the creative paintings she presents is the attention to detail, which makes us think that what we are painting is a photograph of a real object, not just a painting. In addition to drawing animals, birds, portraits, products, and people, Monica Lee uses Photoshop to create digital paintings, which ultimately give us stunning work. Monica Lee also uses colored pencils to make her drawings even more impressive.
9 cases"Artistiq"——加拿大
Cas (who goes by the way she goes on social networking as Artistiq) is one of the most creative pencil artists in Canada and around the world. Cas is interested in portraits, and her creative focus is on painting her favorite celebrities as well as other film and television characters to find many of the people we all like, such as Jennifer Lawrence, Katy Perry, and many more celebrities we know. To create these stunning drawings, Cass uses both traditional and digital media.
8 Adonna Kare – United States
Adonna Khare is an award-winning artist who focuses more on large-scale carbon pencil paintings. She was the winner of the 2012 Art Prize competition, the largest art competition in the world. She received her MFA from California State University, and her work has been featured in different national and international exhibitions, magazines, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. She tries to tell stories and convey certain messages through animal paintings, which are often related to our lives, different events, and the people with whom she communicates.
7 Paul Carden — England
Paul Cadden is one of the best pencil artists in the whole world. His creativity and unique ability to create surreal pencil drawings made him on this list. With Paul Cadden, you can appreciate the amazing beauty of creative, unique, and accurate portraits and landscapes. He takes us to another world, in fact, we live in the same world, but are not seen or ignored. His paintings accurately reproduce reality, focusing on the themes and details depicted, encouraging us to pay more attention to the world we live in and appreciate the different but often overlooked things around us. Although Paul's paintings are often based on photographs, stills, and videos, they may contain additional elements to reach the level of surrealism.
6 Kelvin Okafor – United Kingdom
If you want to learn more about drawing portraits professionally, then you must take a look at the creative and stunning pencil drawings created by Kelvin Okafor. In order to create these photorealistic paintings and achieve this level of perfection, Kelvin Okafor has been working hard over the years to develop his technique and improve his technique. Kelvin Okafor's fame began to rise after winning several awards in 2012 and 2013. In May 2014, Kelvin Okafor held his first solo exhibition to make his paintings more enjoyable.
5 Marco Mazzoni – Italy
Marco Mazzoni is a portrait artist who holds a BA in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera, Milan. He paints only with colored pencils and does not resort to any other traditional medium. He is obsessed with the natural beauty of his surroundings, which is reflected in his work, as he focuses more on painting birds, animals, butterflies, plants, and flowers. In addition to flora and fauna, Marco Mazzoni's paintings depict female herbalists in Sardinia from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Marco Mazzoni's work has appeared not only in several galleries in Italy, but also in the United States and throughout Europe.
4 Diego Fazio – Italy
Diego Fazio, also known as DiegoKoi especially on social networking sites, is a self-taught pencil artist who has managed to rapidly develop his technique, which ends up with amazing results. He began his journey as an artist by painting koi fish, which is also included in his name, and then moved on to painting portraits. He pays attention to small details, focusing on shadows in his paintings, in addition to the faces and eyes of the figures, because of their ability to express silent emotions to the viewer. DiegoKoi's work has been exhibited in several exhibitions around the world, and his hyper-realistic paintings are stunning and have won many awards.
3 Ileana Hunter – Romania
Ileana Hunter is a talented artist who decided to learn how to create realistic pencil drawings on her own without resorting to any drawing lessons. Her work focuses on portraits and celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Marilyn Monroe, The Duchess of Cambridge, Grace Kelly, and many more. All of the materials she used to create these stunning drawings include Mars Lumograph pencils (2B-6B), mechanical pencils, tortilions, smooth Bristol boards, and putty erasers for highlighting. It takes 1-2 days to complete the minimal drawing of Ileana Hunter, while the full detail drawing takes a few days to be fully completed.
2 Dirk Dzimirsky – Germany
Dirk Dzimirsky is a professional artist with the ability to create stunning hyper-realistic paintings. His attention to detail, light and shadow in his paintings creates impressive works of art that allow the viewer to enjoy the silent emotion and dramatic sensation of discovering the subjects depicted in his work. Dirk Dzimirsky's work has been exhibited in several exhibitions in different countries around the world, such as Tokyo, the United States, and Europe, which shows his unique ability to create captivating artworks that look authentic.
1 Pierre-Yves Riveau "PEZ" – 法国
Pierre-Yves Riveau is a great artist living in Nantes, France, known as PEZ on different social networking sites. He is a professional painter, illustrator and graphic designer. The main secret to PERZ's great success is its focus on content and detail. The result is a mesmerizing artwork that completely astounds us. PERZ's artwork features different common themes that we are familiar with, but they are depicted in unconventional and creative ways to convey a message that is often related to the lives of all of us and the different issues we suffer. With PEZ, you can definitely appreciate the amazing beauty of his artwork, but you may need to spend some time trying to understand what he wants to express through his art.
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