Photograph by mrbill
Miguel Endara – a hero at keeping art human
In an artistic landscape where photography and imagery are becoming increasingly more digital and less human it is refreshing to see an artist flipping this in reverse and creating something unmistakably human.
This fantastic video below of Artist Miguel Endara shows the painstaking lengths it took to create a lifelike portrait of his father with 3.2 million tiny ink dots. He has titled the piece ‘Hero’.
Drawing with a Sakura Pigma Micron pen which has a nib of just 0.2mm Miguel spent over 11 months completing the artwork which is an impression from a real life image built up using a series of face scans.
Talking about the process Miguel explained: “‘I filmed myself in just about every section of my drawing and got an average of 4.25 dots per second, which translated into 3,213,000 dots if you multiply that by 210 hours, which is what I logged in for the drawing.”
The video has attracted over 6 million views so far on Vimeo perhaps showing that when it comes to the human form producing reflective art pieces in a uniquely human way will always be fascinating.
The Making of “Hero” from Miguel Endara on Vimeo.