this is a sculpture

Believe it or not this is not a real man. I will let that soak in for a minute.


Amazing right?! Cang Xin is the creator of this brilliant work and dedicated almost a decade of his life to this piece.

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32 foot tall Confucius by Zhang Huan (reblog)

Ok, this took my breathe away. How amazing would it be to walk into a room with a over sized 32 foot ancient philosopher that looks so life like you swear he was breathing?

Artist Zhang Huan has created a 32 foot tall sculpture of Confucius.
If the photos are this amazing imagine standing in front of it.

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the real world

Sometimes it takes a simple and photorealistic mock-up of your awesome work to make it complete.

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embrace the complex

Sometimes I stay away from things I am not the best at. I am not one to use a lot of shadows or gradients. I stick to flat simple color. I love the simplicity of it. There are times I would like to add a bit of dept but would like it to be as realistic as possible. I found this really helpful post on Smashing Magazine that may help me get of the fear of butchering the realistic shadow. A fear of fake shadows. There has to be a name for it. I will call it fauxsciaphobia.

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