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Japanese Artist Will Blow Your Mind With His Incredibly Life-Like Paintings

Japanese Artist Will Blow Your Mind With His Incredibly Life-Like Paintings

Think these are photos? Think again! This Japanese artist will make you rethink everything you believe about photos, photorealism, and art!

March 13, 2018
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Meet Yasutomo Oka, the Japanese artist who can create mind-blowing portraits without using expensive gadgets or tools like a thousand dollar camera or an expensive computer and software.
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Oka, a 43-year-old artist from Aichi Prefecture, Japan, can paint incredibly realistic portraits that people often confuse with either real-life photography or a picture created using Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI).
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According to SoraNews24, Oka uses pure talent and his oil painting tools to create these amazing masterpieces.
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The artist really puts everything into his work. You can even spot the tiniest details, like the reflection of light in the model’s eyes as well as their eyelashes.
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The color he uses as well as the gloomy background somehow helps make the portraits look more realistic – or even make it look like it was made using a computer.
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It takes a lot of hard work to make such intricate masterpieces, which is why Oka takes several days to more than half a month to finish one piece. One of the pictures below – the woman in a kimono – took 20 days to finish.
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Oka is also very good with using colored pencils and markers for drawing realistic-looking artwork. Take these few, for example, they all look like they were taken using a camera with a black and white filter.
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Check out Oka’s website to know more details about his upcoming art exhibit.
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