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The Surrealism of Skin: Photorealistic Pencil Drawings by Ileana Hunter

Ileana Hunter’s passion is drawing portraits of famous faces in a highly realistic style. She uses a variety of different pencils to create her drawings, ranging from hard pencils that create a light tone to soft lead pencils that creates rich, dark tones. The majority of Hunter’s models are female, including actresses like Scarlett Johansson and deceased singer Amy Winehouse. Using a photograph as reference, Hunter sketches and then shades her drawings, carefully copying the highlights, gradients and shadows of the photograph to create photorealistic drawings. “Photorealistic” means drawing or painting a picture that looks like a photograph but isn’t. It is a style that is tricky to achieve as it requires a lot of time and patience and doesn’t allow the artist to use expressive brushstrokes or pencil lines in the art work.

Like many artists, Ileana Hunter is fascinated by human eyes and has created several photorealistic drawings that explore the minute details of the skin, eyelashes and irises that make up the human eye. In many of her realistic drawings of eyes, the reflection in the model’s eye tells a story of its own. In one pencil drawing, there is a silhouette of a human being looking into the eye, which gives the viewer the impression that it is themselves caught in reflection.

Ileana Hunter’s art is classified as both fine art and fan art. It is fine art because her medium is pencil on paper, which is considered a fine art medium. Her subjects are celebrity singers and actors, and so her photorealistic drawings fall into the realm of fine art. Hunter’s photorealistic drawings are finished with a high level of quality. The artist pays attention to detail while still creating gradients that appear almost too smooth to be real, giving her portraits a surreal beauty. Visit Ileana Hunter’s online art gallery for more photorealistic fan art pencil drawings.

An amazing photorealistic pencil drawing by Ileana Hunter of Jennifer Lopez


An amazing photorealistic pencil drawing by Ileana Hunter of a nude woman in pony boots


An amazing photorealistic pencil drawing by Ileana Hunter of Katy Perry


An amazing photorealistic, self-portrait pencil drawing by Ileana Hunter


An amazing photorealistic pencil drawing by Ileana Hunter of a nude woman touching her throat


An amazing photorealistic pencil drawing by Ileana Hunter of beautiful eyes


An amazing photorealistic pencil drawing by Ileana Hunter of Kate Beckinsale


An amazing photorealistic pencil drawing by Ileana Hunter of Amy Winehouse


An amazing photorealistic pencil drawing by Ileana Hunter of Emma Watson


An amazing photorealistic pencil drawing by Ileana Hunter of a woman's hands


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September 17, 2012 Catherine Nessworthy Mayhem & Muse

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Surf Baby Surf – The World’s Youngest Surfer?

Rico Leroy is a world famous tandem surfer. Tandem surfing is the art of surfing with two people on a board. The surfers will perform various acrobatic tricks while riding a wave. Some tandem surfers have trained their dogs to surf with them, though the majority of tandem surf couples are made up of husband […]

September 18, 2012 Catherine Nessworthy Mayhem & Muse

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The Psychedelic Art of Lutamesta

The Psychedelic Art of Lutamesta

Lutamesta’s psychedelic drawings are reminiscent of Loius Wain’s art works. (Take a look at his art in The Schizophrenic Psychedelic Art of Louis Wain) Both Lutamesta and Louis Wain use cats as their main subjects, depicting the cats’ fur, whiskers and facial features with stylized, psychedelic patterns. Both artists focus on the cats’ faces, enlarging […]

September 15, 2012 Catherine Nessworthy Mayhem & Muse
  • September 17, 2012
  • by Catherine Nessworthy
  • Art Installations
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