Incredible And Amazing photo-realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Incredible photo-realistic drawings by Diego Fazio, a self-taught Italian artist. “Each portrait is done with just a pencil and paper and can take up to 200 hours to finish.” It’s hard to believe these pictures are not photographs. They are pencil drawings made by Diego Fazio, a 23 year old self-taught artist living in Italy. Also known as DiegoKoi on Deviantart, Diego started off as a tattoo artist but eventually began drawing bodies instead of drawing on them. Each meticulously detailed portrait can take up to 200 hours to complete.

Born in 1989 in Lamezia, Italy, the emerging talent is self-taught; starting his career as a tattoo artist. He cites the artwork of Katsushika Hokusai, a highly influential Japanese artist from the Edo period, as one of his early inspirations. Each artwork can take hundreds of hours and Diego says he only began drawing in 2007.

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Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Realistic Drawings by Diego Fazio

Source — Elitedaily | Twistedsifter | Diegokoi.Deviantart | Diegokoi

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Edmund Thomas Clint - The Prince of Colors

Edmund Thomas Clint (1976–1983) was an Indian child prodigy. He is known for having drawn over 25,000 paintings during his life. Clint was the lone son of MT Joseph and Chinnamma Joseph. He was named after Clint Eastwood. He loved painting Hindu festivals and traditional events near his home in Kochi, Kerala. When he died of kidney failure in 1983, he was just six years and 11 months old, yet left behind some 25,000 artworks. Normally it would take years of analytical study and training to draw such paintings. His work has been displayed in exhibitions in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala in 1995 and 2007. At the age of 5, he secured first place in a competition held for painters below the age 18.

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Legacy Clint Road in Kochi, Kerala is named after him. A biography, Clint - Nirangalude Rajakumaran (Clint - The Prince of Colors) was written about him. A Brief Hour of Beauty, another biography in English, is now available on Jain Book Agency. The 2007 Malayalam film Anandabhairavi, about a child prodigy was inspired by Clint's life. Edmund Thomas Clint memorial painting competition for children was held at Kochi in his memory. [Facebook Page]

Actor Clint Eastwood sends his condolences to the parents of the gifted child who bore his name. Photo credit Keralatourism

Source — Wikipedia , Keralatourism

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