It’s truly amazing what kind of art that digital artists are able to create. I’m talking about the sketches and paintings that look like they were drawn by hand or taken with a camera, except they were created using a program like Photoshop or Microsoft’s Paint. Earlier this year we showed you some of the best paintings created using solely Microsoft Paint, so today I thought I’d share with you five amazing paintings created in Photoshop. The first three paintings come from an artist named Bert Monroy who considers himself a digital photo-realist artist. His work is so detailed, and so amazing. I’d say his work is the best I’ve seen, but there are others who have created great work as well, so I’ve included two paintings from other artists.
- Damen – a painting of a Chicago scene first unveiled at Photoshop World in March of 2006. Using Adobe Illustrator to create some of the basic shapes, digital photo artist Bert Monroy using Photoshop to create the rest. The flattened file weights 1.7 Gigabytes and took over 2,000 hours to create.
- Lunch in Tiburon – another great painting from Bert Monroy created in Photoshop.
- Oyster Bar- by Bert Monroy. The detail is amazing!
- Daniel Hammonds used only a mouse and Photoshop 6.0 to create “Me and Loui’s Sister” from scratch. He even put together a step by step guide on how he did it.
- Snow Angel – created in Photoshop 6 with a mouse. (Source)
That’s amazing. Not only does it take ages to create this, they must have put a lot of thought in it too. I mean, can you imagine how long they’ve been busy figuring out perspective, reflections, shadows et cetera?
It’s times like these that make me wish I was an artist. Their eye for detail is extraordinary, but spending 2,000 hours on a picture? That’s just crazy.
I can’t even begin to imagine all the time and planning that goes into these paintings — these artists are certainly talented!
I am having huge trouble believing that the top pic was done in photoshop! They are truly amazing…
That’s what makes these people artists! : ) This type of work is called photorealism which you can read more about here: [en.wikipedia.org]
I would really love to buy a print but I dn’t know what to do . Please call me and let me know what to do. thank-you, Cathie