Artist Dirk Dzimirsky will say that his breathtaking photorealistic drawings aren't perfect replicas of real life, but they come pretty darn close.
The self-taught artist sketches with such detail, you may find yourself squinting at the screen. Dzimirsky opened up about his craft and the motivation behind his work.
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Dzimirsky takes around 30 hours to complete a charcoal drawing, while an oil painting can take up to 130 hours. The artist believes that though the work is technique-driven, for him, it's not about transferring the physical aspects, but rather the emotional ones.
"By adding a stroke there or a pencil mark here," he says, "I feel like describing aspects of a person and even about the character."
As you can tell by the handful of drawings below, he has definitely succeeded in translating emotions onto canvas. Take a look, and peruse more of Dzimirsky's work on his website.
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