Most realistic Illustrator images ever (several artists)

[sPECtre]

Gauss, are you sure that Bert did tracing on that image? He mentions path, but in his books, I do not remember him mentionning tracing.

http://www.bertmonroy.com/fineart/te...eart_damen.htm

[vvpeter15]

There is only one that I'd put apart in the group pictured there, and it would be Bert Monroy, first, because he does not trace on top of the image, then use the gradient mesh function, but he creates each element, using and developping his own techniques, second because he is adding insane levels of details that might not even be visible in the final piece (I remember that once, he created the vue of a virtual future city, and one one window, there was a desk, on this desk were some CD's... he had in fact created the text on the CD's in Illustrator, even if the Cd was a few pixels wide on the final image.

[Steve]

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[Hoogle]

steve you are aware vvpeter15 is a bot dont you

[SeniorS]

Yeah, it's bot but sometimes they usefull. I missed this thread and "Oh, my god!". Those illustrator images are super.
Of course, i don't know why excatly make more than one or two (one or two for prooving that "i can do that").

Still just increadable.

[agentmoeller]

interesting thread. I was initially amazed at the realism in the images, but think the comments are spot on that it is mostly a matter of time, patience, and applied skill to copy an existing image.

Some work that has amazed me, and I believe is completely original, is the caricature work of Jason Seiler. That is what I aspire to.



Agent

[ibclare]

I agree Agent. Fascinating discussion that was. But is it Art? That's the question that comes to me. It's certainly talent. But maybe not the kind of talent Gaussian referred to. It's maybe not the flash of creativity that creates true art, at any level of skillfulness. Skill is developed, talent is innate. Some of these vector artists may indeed be artists; after all, it takes an artist's eye (or a mathematician) just to know how to create good composition, and they may have other forms of expression. And using a singer like Ella Fitzgerald as a comparison is bogus. She may sing someone else's composition, but her voice is art and that is indisputable. An electrical engineer can have great talent, but is it art? Maybe. I guess I'm not sure. There are many kinds of talent and being able to make this kind of vector art is cool and shows talent. But is it art?

[Hoogle]

everything is Art. If you just read about that exhibition in Africa a charity trying to make a statement that we are not doing enough for the 3rd world population use what I call sick shock tactics basically having mass graves of dead children on display photos of suffering as an exhibition then surely anything a person can create in illustrator cinema4d photoshop and so should be classified as art. Even on less exhibitions like a pile of trash on the floor is that really art or a painting that any child could make at preschool yet a famous artist does it and sells it for millions makes you want to change the saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder to Art is in the eye of the beholder

[Paul]

Art is a state of mind.