Mind-Bending Photorealism By Self-Taught Singaporean Artist Ivan Hoo
Ivan Hoo is a Singaporean artist with a talent for breathing life into anything he draws. His impressive attention to detail makes it hard to believe that the artist is self-taught.
“ I have always loved drawing ever since I was a child but I never studied art and am completely self-taught, ” the 31-year-old artist told dailymail. “ Then about four years ago I decided to further my knowledge in drawing techniques – in particular realism- and work full time as an artist. ”
Most of his creations are made with pastels, charcoal, and ink on wood panels. The artist draws from real still life compositions or from photos taken by Hoo himself.
“ By working on wood, it gives me a lot of dimension and ideas to create something close to reality and it works really well with pastels, too, ” Hoo told boredpanda. “ I started to think of ideas and draw things that we could see ‘happening’ on a piece of wood, so the very first idea that struck me was the dripping effect. That was my first anamorphic work. ”
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