Behold: the glamorous Black Star Car Wash – Moscow’s trendiest suds ‘n’ saloons salon.
As patrons chill in the café behind full height glass, the white light, neon and black interior is designed to reveal every streak and smudge as cars are valeted, having been washed behind clear plastic curtains to protect newly detailed motors from stray splashes.
A ten month timelapse of artist Young-Sung Kim creating a hyper-real oil painting.
Yours for a hyper-real $81,000.
The Where’s Wally-esque, Rube Goldberg-looking, Seussian sketchbooks and doodles of Swedish illustrator Mattias Adolfsson.
A short documentary about model maker and photographer Michael Paul Smith and the wonderful world of Elgin Park – a meticulously detailed diorama series featuring miniature buildings and cars of the 1950s America brought to life with a hawk’s eye for detail and a nice line in forced perspective.
Now available in book form.
Related : A Model Town
The quite frankly mind-scrambling work of artist Ben Sack: intricately detailed cityscapes drawn with a succession of 0.05 black Stabilo pigment liners that he exhausts and replaces many times in the months it takes to complete each drawing.
His most recent work (of which you can see much more here) is the circular A Single Note above. It’s 3.8 meters across.
Prints are available.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is an ever present threat.
The extraordinarily detailed ‘doodles’ of 23 year-old Phillipines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes.
Explore more of his work here.
Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda works eight hours a day, taking up to a year to complete gigantic paper illustrations that combine traditional Japanese architecture and landscapes, nature, decay, science fiction and whatever you’re having yourself.
With no idea how the finished piece will turn out, he allows his imagination to dictate the work from day to day, working with an acryllic pen on one 4 x 4 inch square of the illustration at a time.
Above: History of Rise And Fall (pix 1 & 2), Regeneration (pic 3), Ark (pix 4 & 5)
City Band by portrait artist Chris LaPorte from Michigan is a 4m x 8m hand-drawn piece created over 1200 hours using more than a hundred 2H pencils.
Despite how it appears, this is no mere photo realistic copy of a photograph. The 1:540 scale means that the quality of the original image was so low-res in relation to the canvas that LaPorte had to invent or extrapolate the vast majority of the detail.
Filmmaker Mary Matthews sez:
City Band took a year to create and is inspired by a photograph of Chris’ grandfather’s 1926 high school marching band in Bay City, Michigan. City Band is not a copy of a photograph but an original composition, with an original environment and original figure postures and positions. Drawn in a series of panels on the wall, no projection of any kind was used in its creation.
