Kyle Lambert - Painting Illustration and 3D Animation
Kyle Lambert is an animation and illustration student from the UK. On his website he lists his specialist areas as “photorealistic illustration, digital painting, 3D modeling/animation, motion graphics and website design”. But one look at his portfolio and it is clear that digital painting is his forte. He paints digitally in both highly detailed and accurate photo realism and oil painting style.
His work was recently mentioned on the Photoshop User TV podcast and he was a tester for the latest version of Pixelmator (an image editor for Mac) and had his test piece featured on Pixelmator’s official blog.
Photorealistic digital paintings are quite common today and a quick search on YouTube for “speed painting” will give almost 40,000 results but Lambert’s work is on another level to any digital painting I have seen before. Also a keen watercolour and oil painter, Lambert has an amazing talent. It is worth mentioning that it doesn’t take him hours upon hours to complete these works. On his portfolio website he indicates the time it took him to complete some of the paintings, one is as short as 2 hours.
From my research of him I have found that he still mainly uses his finger for sketching and painting on the iPad, but he has been sent a few other cool stylus solutions such as the NomadBrush which was the first iPad stylus that he had the opportunity to try. It is a great product that solves one of the biggest problems presented when painting with your finger - friction. The soft bristles allow you to paint across the iPad’s glass screen effortlessly. Not only does this allow you to work quicker, but in his experience makes you work in a much looser and more expressive way.
His work combines his passion for art, technology and story telling. He trained as a traditional oil painter and consider his main strengths to be the manipulation of colour, light and form to create striking images for storyboards, character designs and concept artwork.
"I have a fine attention to detail, a strong work ethic, love what I do and thrive on the constant challenge to learn and improve as an artist."
His digital paintings really show his great talent and ability, also can't believe he works with his fingers on the ipad!
ReplyDeleteWhen I first came across his painting of Rihanna, I was convinced it was a photo. Highly photorealistic, love his stylistic approach with watercolours & oils too.
I'm the same I thought it was a photo or something! His work is truly amazing.
DeleteThe levels of skill here is out of this World. It is especially suprising when you mentioned that he uses such relatively primitive and insophisticated means. This kind of skill takes a lot of dedication and practice but also a natural talent. Definitely on the cutting edge of the practice.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I find it really interesting that he uses a soft brush on the ipad along with his fingers. It is true that he is skillful in this area and I would love to see what else he is capable of.
DeleteWow, I thought they were photos. They must have taken ages to complete. Very talented guy.
ReplyDeleteI am the same, thought they were photos also! He is mad talented!
DeleteThe idea of photo-realistic painting is so intriguing to me, it shows amazing talent of course, but why not simply take a picture? When it comes to photo-realism in painting I think it should be applied to objects and abstracts that are not in fact "real-world" in order to bring them to life as they could not exist by other means.
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly an exciting area.
"The idea of photo-realistic painting is so intriguing to me, it shows amazing talent of course, but why not simply take a picture? "
DeleteThis is exactly where abstract art comes from - out of the traditional photorealistic style. When cameras came along artists began to abandon the photorealism medium as they say it was pointless in light of the camera. I just thought that it was interesting that you said that because it mirrors what has already happened.
Matt - I see where your coming from but the way I see it is he is making a photo-realistic painting and that is it. I think his aim is to prove to himself and possibly others that he is more than capable of making something look like it is a photograph or a life like spectacle.
DeleteThis guy is really awesome! This reminds me in a way of how sculptors approach a piece, in the early stages of the Rihanna one above it's not obvious at all to the viewer where he's going with the image but on completion it's gorgeous. As little as two hours is crazy! I also think it's really interesting that it's just a simple finger painting albeit to an incredibly advanced level.
ReplyDeletefinger painting ? :-o, i've tried to do it and cant make a stick man, stylus i understand, but with his finger ? very impressive and near unbelievable timings for completion
ReplyDeleteI'm always impressed by people who can use technology in various ways. If you've used one of those finger painting apps you know how difficult that kind of thing must be.
ReplyDeleteI haven't used one of those apps but would love to try it out to see what I come up with.
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