Asome dont see anything rong with this ^_^

your airbrush is very convincing, though a bit blurry in places. dru is incredibly skilled, but we already have robots that do that. they're called printers. :P

there is NO god damned way that that is a painting. I was staring at the poors on that lady's face-scrutinizing it for like ten minutes. I swear to God there is no way, I am in utter shock. Your picture is also awesome and I thank you for showing us that link.

Haha, holy crap that link is amazing....I think Zack's just jealous by saying that thing about the printer :P. I have to admit myself, I'm kinda jealous now. Someone who could do work like that isn't 'just' skilled, they have a God-like eye for detail that can pick up not only the forms and alignment, but just what colors to use to give it that real sense of 'life,' which just blows me away.

I'm not envious. the man has obviously spent a great deal of time investing in a skill that doesn't impress me much. time that could have been spent playing video games.

agreed. why would you want to (for example) pay someone to do a portrait of you that looks EXACTLY like a photo. you have the photo..it just doesnt make sense. i guess it would be cool if the subjects were original and he made them look photo realistic, but meh. my opinion.

Well, to me, it's not so much a matter of paying him to do a portrait for me, but rather the fact he's perfected his realism to that level is amazing. Most people attempt realism and end up with something that doesn't look exactly photorealistic because they don't have the overall 'skills' to master it as this guy has. I dunno, I still think it's good to have that ability up your sleeve anyway for an artist. It's one of the basics you study in art anyway. If you think about it, it's not all about the realism either. You don't learn realism just to do realism. It's stuff like learning to pick up on forms and colors that actually help you as an artist in the future when say, you work from references or just getting a general idea of shapes of things so that you don't really even need a reference to draw something well (like if you were drawing a robot and wanted to make him metallic, and you know how the texture might look).