Time-Lapse Pen Drawing

Its mind boggling awesome, but i think it could have done without the roses.....or the head motif.... it feels a little over embellished.
Still, incredible skill!

amazing.

Remarkable, considering it's freehand-any pre sketching was minimal to non-existant. I like the embellishments.

was that an erasable pen?
if not i'm sorry, and i'm not trying to take away from the incredible difficulty and work he put into to it to make it look that amazing.

Very impressive since he did use pen.
I agree that I didn't really like the head thing and roses. They were good on their own, but with the skull.. it didn't really go well together IMO.

WHOA, that was beyond amazing! :O

Let's chip in and buy him some nail clippers.

that was a very short four minutes

Fake! The video is in reverse...he's erasing it!

XD

It looks strange. There is some of the cervical spine included but when you look through the open mouth, the bit where "the neck bone's connected to the head bone" is missing.

Deej... Agree, and the tiara embellishments look like they were done by a teen doodling in a notebook - not the same skill level at all.

Kudos to the artist, great piece of work.

And for a few semi-critics above, writing about roses and other picture details - this is an art, take it or leave it if you aren't even willing to understand it.

I think the criticism is valid.

Any artist who is worth their salt should be able to fake it and somehow get around the problem of showing the spinal column instead of a hug gap. If this were a tattoo, for example, he could have put the word "Mom" in the empty space.

It doesn't take any special understanding of art to show that this was a Vegas showgirl's skull. The roses and other doodads were tacky.

Um, does no one know what a sugar skull is? It wouldn't be a sugar skull without the embellishments. By sugar skull standards, those embellishments are tame; which makes sense since it seems to be a more realistic take on the form.

No, I would disagree with any accusation of fakery, simply die to the stroke quality.

It's a Bic Fine Point, which can generate extraordinarily fine lines.

It is also not erasable.

All erasable ball point inks are seriously prone t smudging and never fully erase, so the paper at the supposed beginning would have been very badly marked.

Also the interior of the mouth back to the cervical verts looks good to me, the hard palette occludes the join of the spine to the base of the skull.

NOt my cup of tea, I don't really get that whole Mexican day of the dead stuff, but it is a great display of what can be done with the might Bic Fine line, which I adore.

Anyone know what kind of paper/canvas that was? It looks like a fibrous material that would accommodate ball point well. Whatever, I want a print for my party room.