Finger painting is reaching whole new levels.
A showcasing iPad artist’s hyperrealistic portrait of actor Morgan Freeman has gone viral this week. The portrait, dubbed “The world’s most realistic finger painting,” was created using an iPad Air and a finger.
Lambert, a UK-based trained oil painter, took more than 200 hours to create the painting and crunched the process down to less than four minutes of time-lapsed video.
The video takes viewers from a blank screen to a rough sketch to the finished product. The work looks nearly complete by the two-minute mark, but Lambert continues to layer on more fine details.
The piece, created with the app , is made up of 285,000 brushstrokes.
Perviously, Lambert’s created iPad paintings of , and , among other celebrities.
In , Lambert talked about the transition from traditional paints, pens and paper to the iPad.
“You have to transition from using a very fine tip to using the size of an index finger,” he said. “But sometimes, having restrictions as an artist make you work a little bit harder and try different things.”
