Saturday, October 31, 2009

Autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire draws 18ft picture of New York from memory

I guess you all are familiar with Heroes..The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the characters' lives.


Anyone remember at season one, there's a character named Isaac Mendez, the tortured artist who can paint the future. Such artist really exist in the world, BUT this real life artist is not painting the future.


This artist can paint whole New York city after he spent just 20 minutes in a helicopter gazing at the panorama.



The astonishing 18ft drawing of the world’s most famous skyline was created by autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire. The unbelievably intricate picture was drawn with details of every building sketched in to scale.


Landmarks including the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building can be seen towering above smaller buildings after just three days in his spellbinding creation.


Listening intently to his ipod throughout the artistic process - because music helps him - London-born Stephen uses only graphic pens as he commits his photographic memory to the high-grade paper.


Stephen sketches his layout in pencil first and then scales it within the border, first adding in landmarks before filling out in more intricate detail.

Going through up to 12 pens during his sketches which can take a week to finish, Stephen also draws heavily on music which he carries everywhere.



2 comments:

Hitsugaya Toushirou said...

WOW!! I'v always tot that such artists would take pictures 1st. Then, draw according to the pics they took. Stephen Wiltshire has an extremely good photographic memory. He's dubbed as "the human camera".

nettoboy said...

yeah..tis guy was really talented..hopefully he won't be killed by sylar..haha..he's more 2 human printer..Stephen was special!

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