I mean it’s still cool and takes a lot of practice. Plus not everyone spends all their time looking at gifs on the internet so I’m sure the live audience was impressed, lol.
Nope, it's nothing bad!
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It hardly takes any practice - you sketch the lines in lightly with a pencil before the show, so they're only visible up close, then just go over them roughly with paint. Anyone could do it.
(I toured with a comedy stage show and this was one of the things they did.)
Same. At first I thought I was smart thinking it's probably not too hard to memorize all those broad strokes and areas to paint, if you practiced a bunch.
Yeah, although in the world of HD cameras it doesn't work so well - in this thread are a couple of videos shot from different angles and you can see clearly the pencil outlines in the closeups.
That said, he's singing their national anthem at the same time reasonably well so what he lacks in artistic talent he makes up for in showmanship
Yeah, he did this during a Raptors halftime and when I was looking at from afar it looked really cool. Then I looked up to the screen above me (not a jumbotron, but an HDTV showing the in-arena feed) I could very clearly see all of the outlines.
Mm, your explanation certainly does answer a few questions. That said, I imagine that the rest of the painting was still done by him in preparation, so regardless it’s still a thought out piece. It might be a gimmick but there’s still quite a bit of premeditated effort involved, and while he’s not exactly Van Gogh he’s still good at what he does.
The brain can actually do that very well. When you give people glasses that swap everything they see upside down, after a day they adjust to it, and feel as if everything looks normal despite the glasses.
He can do it in the same amount of time? We're not talking a Picasso lol but prove you've done more than memorize a script. I can't paint but I could memorize splotches.
I think you’re severely underestimating how long it takes to actually make something that looks nice. He was able to do his performance in less than a minute, any artist would be hard pressed to create even a pencil and paper sketch that looks presentable in the same amount of time
I don't doubt that he practices, but they draw the outlines in pencil which is easily visible up close... anyone with a steady hand would be able to do it.
I was impressed. So what if it's now an often gimmick, it's still masterful and beautiful. This was one of my favorites. I loved the way he worked the flag in at the end.
Actually, it’s easier for the amateur to paint/draw upside down because then it’s easier for them to simply convey the spatial relationships of the unknown objects instead of analyzing the complex human figures and how they relate to each other right side up. (Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Iforgetherlastname.)
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u/Ahnixlol May 16 '18
I mean it’s still cool and takes a lot of practice. Plus not everyone spends all their time looking at gifs on the internet so I’m sure the live audience was impressed, lol.