Dubai based artist and photographer Ali Al Sumayin makes minimalist portraits of well known figures. He simply includes the best known marks of these celebrities, and they become clearly legible, even though they lack any facial features.
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Portraits Made From Push-pins
Artist Eric Daigh makes excellent use of push-pins to create portraits that are clear and distinctly visible. You don’t really expect push-pins to do a job that clean and that is what makes these portraits appear all the more impressive, though a bit pixelated.
Beautiful Girls Portraits by Peter Nguyen
Peter Nguyen has one of the most beautiful photography collections out there and it is only logical because his collection has some of the greatest beauties ever. Peter chooses beautiful girls as the subject of his photographs, creating a collection that is very interesting.
Portraits Made From Portraits: That’s so Meta
Maksim Ksuta uses a number of portraits and images to create portraits. It’s like Inception with images, and it is fairly impressive. As with any such work, the further you are from the images, the better the overall portrait will look. I guess that is a hazard of using a giant pixel size.
Pencil shaving portraits
British designer Kyle Bean made these pencil shaving portraits for contributors for the Wallpaper Design Magazine. He used shavings from colored pencils to get the desired effect for each portrait.
Embroidered portraits
Daniel Kornrumpf nearly mimics brush strokes in his illustrations, but makes it way more impressive considering these portraits are embroidered.
Art made from junk mail
Putting to use almost all of the snail mail portfolio, artist Sandhi Schimmel Gold makes portrait mosaics from greeting cards, advertising pamphlets and the like.
Impressive art made with nails
Artist Marcus Levine‘s work employs taking thousands of nails, hammering them onto a board, and creating these stunning pictures out of those. Just seeing the detail on the picture makes you marvel at the skill and effort put up by the artist. According to Levine, it takes about 3500 nails to create one portrait, and with the work involved, you can be sure that he hits his fingers with the hammer more than once while creating these portraits.
Artist makes blonde portraits from bubblegums
Artist Jason Kronenwald has a certain liking for bubblegum, and for blondes. We’re guessing that’s the reason he mixed the two to create this series of portraits. The portraits are made from chewing gum placed on plywood, with the colors coming from, well, different colored chewing gums. You’ll find many celebrities in the portraits, Britney Spears, Madonna, even Hillary Clinton. To preserve the portraits, Jason seals them in layers of epoxy resin.
So you’re an Ultimate Warrior fan… Where’s your Ultimate Portrait then?
In case you didn’t yet know, the membership to the Ultimate Warrior fan-club needs you in this ultimate portrait. Artist Ian Eckert creates custom sketches and portraits on commission, the best of the lot of course is the Ultimate Portrait. Somehow I think there won’t be much in a Vader portrait.
Via: Uncrate