Amazing Artwork

I recently received a "viral email" featuring the work of an English artist I just had to pass along.

The artist's name is Julian Beever, and he's been creating amazing chalk drawings throughout Europe since the mid-1990's.  What makes Beever's work so amazing is his astounding, large-scale use of anamorphosis, or distorting an image so that it can only be seen clearly from a certain perspective.

For example, here's Beever posing with a popular American icon.  Despite the angle of the photographer, the Coke bottle appears to be three dimensional:

To give you a little better idea of what's involved with anamorphosis, here's a shot of a chalk drawing from the planned perspective along with how it actually looks from another perspective:

Absolutely unreal.  Taking about three days to complete each drawing, Beever explains a bit about his tedious process:

"The secret is to set up a camera on a tripod and keep it in one spot and check every mark you make.  It's really just playing with perspective to make it appear different to what it really is."

Here's another drawing.  They're often so convincing, that some people actually step around them for fear they'll stumble into the "hole" Beever has created.

So what's this have to do with comics?  Ah, never fear...because here are a few comic-themed drawings of Beever's:

Keep in mind these things are done with chalk!  Unbelievable.  However, you haven't seen anything yet until you've seen his Batman and Robin drawing!

If you'd like to see more of Beever's work,
click here to visit his website for more photos!

Comments

[Shelly]

These are so cool. Thanks for the link.

[Rich]

What Shelly said. This is just awesome.

[ABS]

There was a recent TV commercial in which someone draws an anamorphic classroom on the floor of a plain white room. Same guy?

[Mark Engblom]

It very well could be. I haven't seen the commercial, but there's probably not TOO many guys out there doing anamorphic chalk drawings.

Or ARE there?