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Ronald Restituyo is a talented artist known for creating realistic portraits that look almost like photographs. His drawings capture the true beauty of each person's face, focusing on small details like light, shadows, and expressions.
What makes Ronald’s artwork special is how lifelike it feels. He takes simple sketches and turns them into real-looking faces. Scroll down to see the striking similarities between his drawings and actual photographs!
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Ronald shared with Bored Panda that he has been drawing since he was a child, starting with school pencils. In 2011, he discovered his love for oil painting, which became his preferred medium. By 2019, he ventured into digital art, and has continued creating in this medium ever since.
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"What I'm most passionate about is the personal satisfaction I feel inside every time I create art, it's something I couldn't explain but it feels like that's where I belong. I also really like how people interact with my work, how it makes them feel and even some feel identified in some way."
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LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 month ago
Beautiful sketches, but NOT photorealism. Photorealism means the art is so realistic it looks like a photo, rather than a drawing. The artist is clearly talented, but it's obvious that these are sketches.
Justin Tyme 1 month ago (edited)
Apparently you don't know what is meant by photorealistic. photorealistic: “looking like a photograph or film of a real person, place, etc” - Cambridge Dictionary, 2024.
StarCrossedFriday 1 month ago (edited)
I’m so confused - at first I thought the drawing was the ‘simple sketch’, and the photo the photorealistic end product. “What makes Ronald’s artwork special is how lifelike it feels. He takes simple sketches and turns them into real-looking faces. Scroll down to see the striking similarities between his drawings and actual photographs!” So…yes, impressive, but not photorealism as many others have pointed out. Maybe adding a ‘simple sketch’ to begin with would have made it clearer? Or does that refer to the lines on the drawings? Aargh, still confused 😅
Casey Logan 1 month ago
That's what I thought!!!!! I thought the pencil drawings/sketches were good but the colour ones looked so realistic! Then I realised the author had no idea what photorealism is. I thought it'd be something more like this (A4, 60 hours, 2B 5B 6B 8B pencils)..... IMG_202412...aab47e.jpg 
LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 month ago
Beautiful sketches, but NOT photorealism. Photorealism means the art is so realistic it looks like a photo, rather than a drawing. The artist is clearly talented, but it's obvious that these are sketches.
Justin Tyme 1 month ago (edited)
Apparently you don't know what is meant by photorealistic. photorealistic: “looking like a photograph or film of a real person, place, etc” - Cambridge Dictionary, 2024.
StarCrossedFriday 1 month ago (edited)
I’m so confused - at first I thought the drawing was the ‘simple sketch’, and the photo the photorealistic end product. “What makes Ronald’s artwork special is how lifelike it feels. He takes simple sketches and turns them into real-looking faces. Scroll down to see the striking similarities between his drawings and actual photographs!” So…yes, impressive, but not photorealism as many others have pointed out. Maybe adding a ‘simple sketch’ to begin with would have made it clearer? Or does that refer to the lines on the drawings? Aargh, still confused 😅
Casey Logan 1 month ago
That's what I thought!!!!! I thought the pencil drawings/sketches were good but the colour ones looked so realistic! Then I realised the author had no idea what photorealism is. I thought it'd be something more like this (A4, 60 hours, 2B 5B 6B 8B pencils)..... IMG_202412...aab47e.jpg
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