An artist has gone viral on TikTok (seriously viral, it has 2.3million views at the time of writing) for his absolutely breathtaking photorealistic portrait of his mother. The video shows the artist's process from start to finish over the course of the two years it's taken to get to this stage of the artwork. You get to see how he added in all that incredible detail to make such a textured, hyper-realistic finish. It is one of the best realistic pencil drawings I've ever seen – and artist Gurekbal Bhachu deserves all the praise he is getting in the comments.
Using a variety of different textured pencils, the woman's face is built up – creating unbelievable texture by layering different shades on top of one another, filling in colour and using dots. He would certainly need some of the best pencils for this as the pigment needs to be spreadable, smoothable and blendable. See the process below, in the YouTube version of his video, which currently has 1.1 million views.
