A video recording the process of a very creative drawing

MK Scarlett

MK Scarlett

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I've just seen this video and I must confess that this guy amazed me! He has a very very good vision of the perspective and draw very very fast. Also his accuracy and of details is just awesome. Hereafter what he specifies on his YouTube page about his creation:

To answer some of your other questions regarding the details of the work:

The drawing is 48" (four feet) in diameter and thus 150" (12.5 feet) in circumference.

Drawing the piece and editing the still photographs took place over the course of two months with interruption. In all, some 3500 individual photos were taken.
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And he looks pretty young on his FB Page: _https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=496912573688195&set=a.360735197305934.88078.360732723972848&type=1&theater
 
I checked out his portfolio. I am reminded of a story I heard about an autistic person who could recreate in perfect detail with pen and paper, or pen and wall, any city map he had seen. While average people are impressed, that ability to is no more impressive than to see a printer do the same. They can't help it. This guys drawings, while technically interesting, are hardly creative. Most of them appear to be direct renderings of existing cityscapes. One or two pieces in this style would be interesting, but such pieces are only of interest when there are others to contrast them.
 
Atreides said:
I checked out his portfolio. I am reminded of a story I heard about an autistic person who could recreate in perfect detail with pen and paper, or pen and wall, any city map he had seen. While average people are impressed, that ability to is no more impressive than to see a printer do the same. They can't help it. This guys drawings, while technically interesting, are hardly creative. Most of them appear to be direct renderings of existing cityscapes. One or two pieces in this style would be interesting, but such pieces are only of interest when there are others to contrast them.
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Thanks for your input Atreides, and I had a similar thought after have posted this video by talking about it with my husband, and I said he maybe had something like a photographic memory and this led me to the thought that maybe he was like a kind of autist... :rolleyes:

Yet, and because I must be a part of the average people, I still am impressed by this kind of ability to reproduce anything with a such technically, but because of your input, I understand now why there is not so much creativity in his drawings: Too much technically leads to too litlle of creativity, as a lack of expressiveness in the emotion.
 
Atreides said:
I checked out his portfolio. I am reminded of a story I heard about an autistic person who could recreate in perfect detail with pen and paper, or pen and wall, any city map he had seen. While average people are impressed, that ability to is no more impressive than to see a printer do the same. They can't help it. This guys drawings, while technically interesting, are hardly creative. Most of them appear to be direct renderings of existing cityscapes. One or two pieces in this style would be interesting, but such pieces are only of interest when there are others to contrast them.
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I guess you mean Stephen Wiltshire?

 
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