I’ve always admired artists.
Ok…ok…if we’re being totally honest here admired AND envied.
We have quite a few of them in my family and while I’m not totally devoid of any artistic inclinations I never would call myself an artist.
No, I save that for those with mad talent like this young man, Xiaonan Sun, a self taught American artist.
Sun’s specialty is portraits. And those alone would be…and are…impressive enough.
But apparently Sun can’t just rest on impressive he had to make the rest of us slackers look REALLY bad by heading right on over to INCREDIBLE.
Here, in a tribute to the ever popular film “The Shawshank Redemption”, Sun completes two portraits at the same time.
In an amazing feat of Ambidextrous Accomplishment he literally draws a portrait of Morgan Freeman with one hand and Tim Robbins with the other at the same freaking time!
Check out Sun’s website theportraitart.com for more of his work. And watch more of his videos on his YouTube channel.
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What I find impressive is how lively and true each portrait is, how much it gets across each man’s personality, and the essence of the character. That blows me away more than the two-handed trick!
True….the portraits themselves are really great. Alone they are super impressive!
But I’m also amazed at the ability to partition the brain in such a way that would allow you to draw two completely different images at the same time.
And then to have them be so darn good to boot…yeah it blows me away.