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I was watching Schindler's List (one of my favorite movies 💖), when I had to stop the movie to take care of some business. When I came back, I noticed that I had paused it at the moment where Oskar Schindler gives his gold watch to Itzhak Stern for him to use as a bribe in order to get an elderly couple (the Perlmans) added to the list. 📝✍
This isn't only a pivotal moment in the film (and in the true story that inspired it as well 🕯️), but it also involves my favorite character (Itzhak Stern, played masterfully by Sir Ben Kingsley 👏), and some exquisite cinematography (just look at that camera work and lighting! 🎥✨) that inspired me to try to paint it in my beloved Paint Tool SAI. 🖌️
The painting took about 50 hours and was done with 1 medium/large flat brush, 1 small round/bristle brush (both with chalk texture to make them look more realistic and less "digital" 😉), and 1 very large water/blur brush (which was only used for the background, as I didn't want to blur the character so that the painting would look more traditional and less "photographic" than some of my previous works 👀).
The hardest part to paint was Itzhak's forehead and, to my great surprise, the easiest was the glasses! Which surprised me since it's the first time I've painted a realistic portrait of someone wearing them, haha. 👓🤭
I spent 6 whole months working on this painting (I started sketching it in February of this year! 😆) and I'm super happy with the outcome, since I'm a huge fan of Mama Ru and always wanted to paint a hyper-realistic portrait of her! 🖌️💖
This is one of the most challenging paintings I've ever done, as I've never painted such a beautiful afro hairstyle or a sequined dress with so many details before. 👀 But I wanted to push myself to the limit since, in this era where so many people let themselves be swayed by greedy corporations that tell them that drawing on their own is hopeless and they need to rely on AI generators, it's extremely important that those of us who love human art keep on drawing on the blank page of endless possibilities that always awaits us with open arms! 📝🎨
🌈As Mama Ru once said: "Inside of us all is great power, creativity, and beauty."
P. S. If you love Ru so much as I do, go watch "AJ and the Queen"! 🙌 Is a series as emotional as it is funny and I'm still mad at Netflix for canceling it, ugh. 🙃
Robert Cottingham 1970
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Here's a drawing of Charlie Morningstar for all the fans of hazbin hotel! Who should I draw next?
Top hazbin characters I want to draw! You choose who!
Original: Charlie.
Testing coloring in B&W on digital.
You guys asked for it. I present to you..... HYPERREALISTIC NIFFTY!
Who's next?
Double post. (Don't blame me for the quality, I drew these originally with a mechanical pencil, then went over them again. Alastor looks so different with smaller eyes and mouth.)
Alisa Shea, ‘A Feminine Touch’, 2021 Watercolour on paper, 35 x 50cm
Tiger eyes
One of my more realistic-ish pieces
Some animal eyes I did for friends for Christmas 👍
Tis a falcon, a wolf, a komodo dragon, a fox, and a llama