Photo-realistic Illustrator art

Yukio Miyamoto creates photo-realistic pictures using Adobe Illustrator. He starts by tracing out shapes over photographic references and then fills them with gradients and blends to create the final product. Keep in mind that Illustrator isn't a 3D modeling program. These were created in 2D using nothing but gradients and blends. And what I can only assume is some form of computer sorcery.

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• Mad Skills: Amazing Digital Art Techniques

  December 3, 2008

  This is a gallery of several different exemplary digital painting techniques (sorry, no Star Wars porn here). I posted 10 of my favorites out of the 52, so make sure to check out the full gallery for the others. Some of the stuff is seriously mind boggling. Granted, I person... / Continue →
• Eye Candy: The World In A Drop Of Water (Plus Bonus Spider Man & Batman!)

  January 18, 2012

  German Photographer Marcus Reugels takes pictures of water droplets refracting an image of a planet behind them, making them each appear to contain a lil world (prior: MC Escher droplet). Aaaaaaah, we're all gonna drown! Just kidding, but this does remind me of that cat in Me... / Continue →
• Mashup!: Futurama Characters As X-Mens

  June 15, 2010

  Note: This pic is small and doesn't do the piece justice so to see the whole thing click CHEER. Oh shit, oh shit -- spirit fingers! DeviantARTist gottabecarl went and mashed the Futurama and X-Men universes together. This is what he got. Oh really -- then what about the sup... / Continue →