How good is your ballpoint pen skills? Most of us are capable of drawing a smiley face or a stick man but what if I have told you that you can create life like art pieces that looks so real that some people swear that it’s a photograph?
Meet Samuel Silva, a Portuguese lawyer who calls art just a hobby, and what he calls a hobby I call masterpieces.
Silva is creating life like drawings with his ability to use multicolored ballpoint pens.
Tuesday, one of Silva’s drawings was uploaded to the social news site Reddit, and it became an instant hit. The drawing is based on a photograph of a Russian model. When placed side by side, it’s definitely hard to tell the difference between Silva’s drawing and the photo.
It looked so real that it is really hard to believe that its not a photograph. One user actually wants Silva to submit a video of him creating one of his drawings to legitamize his works.
Silva says he completed this particular drawing with just 7 ballpoint pens that he purchased from an office store.
On the frequently asked questions section of his profile on Deviant Art, Silva explains how he achieves his eye-catching results, “I don’t mix nor blend them. Ballpoint pen ink dries instantly and cannot be erased. I just cross hatch the different colors in layers to create the illusion of blending and the illusion of colors I don’t actually have.” His website features other examples of his drawings that can take anywhere from 5 to 50 hours to create. Drawings include a baby cradled in a dad’s arms, Scarlett Johansson as the “Girl With the Pearl Earring,” a tiger, a jaguar, and even a bald eagle.
Silva says he was born in 1983 and has been drawing since he was just 2-years-old. Now at 29, Silva’s had more than two decades to develop his artistic skills. So far, Silva has not directly responded to those doubting the authenticity of his work yahoo reports.
Silva has 25 ballpoint pen drawings on his profile. His subjects include people, animals, landscapes, buildings, and more. One of Silva’s most elaborate drawings is a ballpoint recreation of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a pearl earring.” .
