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Part of my expo LANDSCAPESAthens, Greece.
9-19 February 2012
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I admire your patience while drawing all that hair... Just love that hairy flow... Stunning realism!
Vashek
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Oh boy, even more of the series.
I'm not a hair fetishist, I just like how you express the individual anatomy of each person in something that is so easily overlooked. (also I am always reminded of some cartoon writer who said: "Once I did a whole post on patterns of male back hair. You won't find that in Burne Hogarth!")
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hahah, yes I am a hair fetishist.
A friend of mine wrote a text about this drawings and it explain why and how I draw these things:
To JosΓ© Manuel Hortelano Pi (Murcia, Spain, 1979), the male body is a landscape. Covered in winding trails from the soles of the feet to the back of the head, full of valleys and fertile slopes that spread across the chest, the hands, the face, like sections of a path, like a walk into the thicketβ¦
LANDSCAPES is the most recent small exhibition by this young artist, trained in classical drawing. He renders the male figure as if it were a natural haven to take shelter in, under the leafy protection of fur and firm flesh.
In this work, Pi turns away from watercolour momentarily to focus on ink drawing, delighting in the ruggedness and irregularity of the body's surface as if it were an orographic map. The nib proceeds, analysing any prominence it encounters in detail, or any vegetation in which it may be covered: fur becomes a wild entanglement, confusing but cosy, and the texture of the skin and of the stroke that describes it are fraternal and invite us to lie down on them.
However, each of these drawings constitutes a landscape in and of itself; pure, beautiful and wild, ready to be explored by crossing the lines that enclose it, guided by an intimate and extremely sensitive curiosity.
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That's an extremely beautiful description, kudos to your friend who wrote the text. These pictures probably look even better in person - galleries leave more space and time to appreciate each picture and get lost in the patterns. A picture on a laptop screen is still a whole world away from a life-picture experience.
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I love it!!! Nicely done. I draw body hair a lot too! I can definitely appreciate this on several levels.
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amazing use of shadow and light! and um... woof!
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Wow I thought this was a photo at first. Great job!
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