Art of Africa.. the drawings you’d swear were snaps
AN artist makes finishing touches to one of her “hyper-real” portraits which are created using just charcoal and pencil.
Chiamonwu Joy’s pictures, which take up to a month, have been praised as better than the work of leading photographers.
A tweet featuring the Nigerian’s most recent drawings – of the Igbo culture in the south of her country – has been liked at least 183,000 times.
Chiamonwu said: “I decide who and what to draw by how much I am moved and fascinated by the subject or object. All my artworks tell a story”
One Twitter user wrote: “These are some of the best photorealistic images I’ve ever seen.”
Another fan added: “I’ve never seen hyper realistic like this, I can imagine a black and white photo vs her drawing where you would say the photo is not as precise as the drawing.”