Making Hyperrealistic Portraits With A Single Thread | Master Craft

[@hrstwn]

"How I made these realistic portraits" [A THREAD]

[@kiems840]

ahahhaha bisa aja lo

[@ricofilberto404]

Twitard 101

[@Bleepbleepblorbus]

Imagine what he can do with two threads.

[@Bleepbleepblorbus]

@@pumpkinlatte6049 what's that?

[@kawallabair3216]

Funny - since it's probably a single threaded computer program that gives him the schematic

[@deepashreedeepashree5920]

Alfred - wakes up startled Friend - were u having a nightmare? Alfred - yes the thread snapped Friend - wait.. wh..?

[@sp00ky_jim]

Lol

[@RM-qo9rx]

The comments are at 666

[@melonemusk]

Mouldy Cheese you can like now

[@nsr5961]

Deepashree Deepashree I’m wondering how much his art sells for

[@brookechongashing1867]

I can’t tell whether this is a reference to Greek mythology or not.

[@vooveks]

“Each of these nails has to be hammered in ONE AT A TIME!” What, as opposed to normally where you hammer them all in simultaneously? 😀

[@hexamirofficial]

hahaha that's what I was thinking xD

[@balasmj]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@McGregorsPlumbingandHeating]

I thought it sounded strange when he said that but didn't think much of it at the time lol. It was the emphasis

[@calfagra]

I know its so hard to make, but they try too hard to make it sounds hard and end up sounds pretentious.

[@anawesomepet]

*gets one disk* *balances nails* *gets another disk* *drops the disk*

[@schpek]

Yall should do something about inktober

[@mochiattoart514]

Agreed. I'm not joining inktober, but I did make some inked portraits just for fun.

[@schpek]

@@mochiattoart514 same

[@artbycallie6816]

Yeah!

[@schpek]

Its been almost a year, damn

[@just_the_letter_a]

been a year :)

[@user-xe3xo4iz7e]

No-one: Spiders in my house:

[@flare_studios.]

Charlotte? Is that you?

[@eebertdeebert]

Ellie Spry Wilbur?

[@DannySullivanMusic]

Lol

[@misseli1]

Talented spiders

[@spacexbeyond]

@@flare_studios. Wilbur?

[@NixtySign]

Robber: *Whats the PASSCODE TO YOUR SAFE ALFRED?!* Robber: Points gun at him Alfred : I I I DONT KNOW Robber : Shows a video of scissors cutting threads Alfred: *8626 PLEASE MAKE IT STOP*

[@zunnyhummy3374]

What if you just guessed his password and its right

[@andxr7903]

Zunny Hummy underrated reply

[@SarcasticEnt]

anong nakakatawa dun?

[@NixtySign]

@@zunnyhummy3374 idk there might be a face scanner and finger print scanners for it

[@zunnyhummy3374]

@@NixtySign Yh lol your probably right but I just said it for the sake of saying

[@whoman9958]

Me: *Uses only around 2 m thread and tangled within 1 stitch*

[@aharrypotterfan5951]

Whoman why is this me?

[@DannySullivanMusic]

Lolol

[@pepesylvia848]

That's different, since you're actually relying on knots and many loops close together. He's got 1 thread and none of the loops are even on the same side of the canvas. Plus only 2 knots. He has an easier time.

[@Harry-rh9qc]

I wanna know what spell Alfred used

[@charlenechan9312]

not expelliarmus for sure 🙂

[@atharvdixit3935]

Avada kevadra (you need to do this spell on yourself first to make the potrait)

[@Dubstequtie]

Spindle-Threadious Toportraitious is the spell used here. Text to speech that if you need help pronouncing it Harry.

[@ojasvisvishwa2655]

You have your profile pictured by Alfred

[@SpaceWoods]

Cocaine

[@brennaaa]

His patience is on another level

[@willcookmakeup]

Wait...what. It's based on an algorithm....HELL NO, this must be so confusing. No thank you, but oh my goodness how cool and what patience you need to do this. Kudos, well done

[@nanamacapagal8342]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4TCnWt9fN2Cnrc this is how it works (I promise its not a rickroll)

[@prabeshgurung1067]

Setsuna Kujo I trusted you

[@Saphire_Throated_Carpenter_Ant]

Its just a giant 'connect the dots'...tedious but far from difficult.

[@prabeshgurung1067]

Saphire Throated Carpenter Ant yeah, to be honest, I would be more bored to finish it as anything that has strings and stuff puts me off

[@johnjohntv1195]

Here is the real link kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5ObY4uYZqhrpdU

[@spiceouia4104]

He better get paid for this or I'm gonna scream

[@JudahMaccabee_]

$50 a piece

[@Sinterpiece]

@@JudahMaccabee_ JUST 50$!?

[@DZ477]

@@JudahMaccabee_ Sources?

[@woozihae]

@@JudahMaccabee_ ya kiddin??

[@jeongbread1712]

@@JudahMaccabee_ WHAT- THAT'S ALL????

[@dashagazo8508]

This man deserves credit so MUCH MORE than the 99% of modern shit art

[@cdabcdefg12345]

nah

[@Ashnshsbsnsms]

Nerd yeah

[@NixtySign]

Bruh we artists dont just pick up a pencil and draw like picasso every single artist works hard, but 10% dont work hard and steal other artists work

[@dashagazo8508]

@@NixtySign I hear ya what bothers me is that ive noticed quality art that takes a long ass to make (like this, or hyperrealistic oil paitnings) go for less than a splatter of red paint on a canvas per say, just because the modern art community decides that it's worth 1 million or because of the artist's name- the art world can be very pretentious

[@elsuperfish]

​@@dashagazo8508 Be honest, the amount of work the guy put in is much more interesting than the actual artwork itself. He's just copying random photos of celebrities, it's really vapid and shallow. "Effort" doesn't really mean anything in art. I'll take something that speaks to me personally over some arbitrary idea of """effort""" any day, even if that something happens to be weird and postmodern. Nothing pretentious about that at all.

[@helloitsme5171]

for some reason i am more interested in the coding part

[@EvonixTheGreatest]

Well that's the art piece really, the portraits are demonstrations of it.

[@mrrummynosetetra]

It's an optimization problem. At any given point you need to decide what is the optimal destination point, such that the thread path intersects with the least amount of white in the target bitmap. A brute force greedy algorithm might do it. If that doesn't work, a gradient descent algorithm might do it. You need to work out how to represent the thread path's closeness to target bitmap as a multi-variable equation that one can differentiate. You then need to adjust the variables to move them a small amount down the gradient to calculate the optimal trajectory.

[@EvonixTheGreatest]

@@mrrummynosetetra That seems far too simple for something like this, for a start I don't think a bitmap would be enough, it looks like it has gradients, also just avoiding whitespace wouldn't give even weighting I think, there's complexity here.

[@mrrummynosetetra]

@@EvonixTheGreatest Bitmaps can encode greyscale and color. Why are you commenting on something you clearly don't know even know the most basics thing about.

[@EvonixTheGreatest]

@@mrrummynosetetra I thought you meant a raw bitmap as in a grid of binary values because of how you phrased "touch the least white", it's a simple mistake and there's no need to be rude.

[@imtired6614]

I like how everyone in the comment section is making torture scenarios for this poor man

[@The_unexplained]

And you like it

[@imtired6614]

@@The_unexplained e x a c t l y

[@maliqelliott2568]

I highly doubt Alfred is poor anymore 😆 🤣 😂

[@MaximQuantum]

People can be so creative with art, things like these would not be believable before actually seeing it. With the patience that artists have, you could come up with anything and do it, this is inspirational and revives my faith in humanity.

[@brij5261]

I wanna see his first ever finished piece. I've always thought that was cool seeing the improvement of my work and others

[@ahamedFuad]

Oh you IMPROVE , that's a rare phenomenon . Good luck !! *existential crisis

[@omarispowell2949]

His first piece is at 2:58

[@pepesylvia848]

@@omarispowell2949 How do you know that's his first piece? The video is unclear.

[@jxnnii7656]

@@pepesylvia848 it says it....

[@pepesylvia848]

@@jxnnii7656 it was unclear

[@sunnydforfree7145]

These are the kind of artists that should be appreciated for their hard works and the kinds of artworks that should be auctioned for millions, not those insanely simplistic scribbles on a canvas.

[@nothing-xu8ef]

And literally a blank canvas

[@ninepuchar1]

Exactly

[@axolotls_are_cute7799]

Ikr

[@KINGBublepop]

This literally could be done by a robot, there's not much here but painstaking work.

[@leehttucec-9985]

Those paintings aren't expensive for being considered good art, their prices are artificially inflated and donated by art collectors to museums as a way to circumvent paying taxes

[@mariaperez-rz8eg]

There are no words to describe this man's talent, patience, and dedication!! 😍👏 Dude I can't imagine how many hours of practice this took to master and even when he mastered it having to start 100% over if the string broke ohhhhh heck no😱!!!!! If I had that talent I would tie the broken string back together and continue 🤣

[@Mrfrog-ez3ig]

Artistic genius at it’s finest... amazing result respect to this gentleman

[@DA-oi8rp]

😂 Research fine arts

[@cstrongman]

When the guy describes his art as magical, I winced, because I think we all know this art is a lot more than magical, it’s stunning.

[@ninepuchar1]

This is an art ,this right here. An art that brings out the essence of the artist,the artist passion and dedication to his art. Not those blank white canvas or few storkes of paint of an art you see these days

[@clement9782]

ahhh yes, following a big connect the dot generated by an algorithm to trace and copy an existing photo. real art man, real art :) we really can see and feel his essence and originality :)

[@sareneve1626]

@@clement9782 plenty of art is copywork: taking an existing image and copying it or translating it into another medium, sometimes with some modification, but still using it as a reference. that's what he's doing. he is creative in the medium he's using and is bringing art to people in a way that plenty of people never would have dreamed of. i'm confused, what about his process makes you feel derisive of his art? i can't help but read your comment as jealousy, but either way, if you can't respect his efforts, i'm not really interested in whatever your retort to this comment may be. have a nice day

[@clement9782]

@@sareneve1626 Waaay too wordy, use some more ponctuation and proper sentence structure. Too long, didn't read. Sorry babe :/

[@TsetsiStoyanova]

Looks like a computer graphic

[@DannySullivanMusic]

It kinda does

[@questionmarkquestionmarkques]

he literally said in the video that he has an algorithm that tells him how to use the thread

[@testtset7946]

@@questionmarkquestionmarkques they're saying that the art looks like the matrix structure of a computer model or something

[@Skape0013]

While I can't even untangle my earphones :D Edit: I'm kinda sad for the guy who doesn't have ears

[@wetowl6239]

I don't even have ears

[@randomroblox7042]

I don’t have a head

[@blankcat5005]

I don't even have

[@monochromeink.]

I don't even

[@yayayayaya2561]

@@randomroblox7042 good

[@evanshsedani1575]

Man this should be a diy kit With the canvas and nails done And a manual says where to puut a thing where

[@evanshsedani1575]

@Melomanie thx ikr!

[@lvleye316]

I saw some of these projects like a year ago and purposely built a pc so I can write a program that uses AI to give you the instructions. I've been working on it for about 4 months now. The end goal is to upload the picture into the program and tell it how many nails you have and it will tell you what instructions of how to make the photo most accurate by giving a list of numbers where each number correlates with a nail. Pretty much a connect the dots type deal.

[@evanshsedani1575]

@@lvleye316 wow

[@Julia-fc4mp]

@@lvleye316 are you going to make it freely available to everyone? I would really likw to try this.

[@lvleye316]

@@Julia-fc4mp once I get it working I was intending on setting up a website people can use. Onlynthing is I'm teaching myself a lot of these skills needed to know along the way which is making it take a lot longer.

[@SamriddhiAnand]

This is one of the most beautiful things i have ever seen I am going to learn this

[@birthcontrol4374]

I’m just wondering where the end of the string is

[@LavroseRovender]

IKR

[@umrah9430]

In yo house

[@basedbattledroid3507]

I like how the video gives us a walkthrough, as if we're capable of doing it too.

[@andrei3495]

Scissors: *I’m about to end this whole mans career*

[@DannySullivanMusic]

Nice

[@shrekstaint8709]

Literally

[@JodBronson]

"String Theory"

[@polantcrumbosh3848]

this guy deserves more credit, i also wonder if he considered doing other things, like full body, or robots and armor, vehicles and the like

[@fungames7700]

This should be a 50 minute long video. Incredible art.

[@ManojPawar]

Yes the risk of the thread snapping is quite real. At regular intervals, a simple drop of glue is used to stick the thread to the nail, so that the unravelling can be contained. In that way, you only need to redo the last section since the last time you stuck the thread.

[@goingsouth8623]

1:21 I GENUINELY LET OUT A SCREAM

[@philaryswift]

Me. Too.

[@Nat-jf2ge]

And he does it without mapping out the nails to make it easier on himself. Looks great!

[@msKita43]

This is art! Not buckets of acrylic paint being dumped on a canvas and swirled around.

[@lifesynchronic9863]

Art is subjective. I do admit to liking some art better than others though

[@pepesylvia848]

It's tracing using string.

[@sirgerbilmacintosh9101]

It's also science.

[@CarlaAmore]

@@pepesylvia848 you must be fun at parties

[@FirstWorlder]

The INSIDE EDITION of art. Just what the world needs.

[@zombyfellow]

why not just tie the string near the edge, if it snaps? its ridiculous to let all that time go to waste.

[@yuki97kira]

Using one string is one of the uniqueness. So even if he tied, if it snaps, he have to redo anyway

[@AshLordCurry]

Because it's way more magical this way.

[@MaoDev]

@@yuki97kira if it snaps just tie it back then

[@someone-ry2mp]

@@MaoDev that'd make it 2 strings, not 1

[@nomadenbug]

Thats why you can't ever do it :)

[@coco-ot4eo]

I cannot even begin to fathom how difficult this must be.

[@Angel_Billy4-30-23]

I couldn't imagine being almost done the portrait and then the thread snaps and it all starts unraveling and I have to start over again, ugh that must be the absolute worst for him and I'm sure it's happened at some point since he started but yeah, I think I would just give up at that point. God bless him for his patience and his talent to do this type of art because it really is beautiful.

[@johnhickersantilan4295]

My recommendation nowadays is beyond my imagination. Now this is a True art 👍

[@itsjustbrandy4290]

I cross stitch and the thread often breaks from wear so that was the first thing I thought about.

[@ninaradulovic1237]

Great work. It is amasing how new technologies and new materials expand the ambit of art, which superceeds its teaditional form trasured for centuries. The inventor of this new techique is realy amasing, but this artist also, as somebody needs to perfection it an develop. Well, s9mebody once inventid oil colours or acrilic, but since then many great artists have been using them. It is great that nowdays we can witness new art techniques and wellcome many promissing artists in regard.

[@meahoola]

Fun fact, mathematicians note: I guess the algorithm is the same that is used in medical X-ray and MRT imagery (tomography), an application of Fourier transform.

[@DannySullivanMusic]

Art and Science intertwined is always beautiful

[@Negs42]

Yea ofc..sine and cosine waves fused together

[@randomang0379]

the amount of patience he has hammering the nails is astronomical

[@nanometer512]

I am a simple fangirl. I see Harry Potter vids, I click them faster than the speed of light. Ik this is overrated sryy

[@benis805]

A simple that likes trash👌

[@selinearisto4185]

Same

[@LL-mm4df]

Cool

[@wackmack7708]

This entire comment is cringy

[@charbelnakad7668]

They changed the thumbnail

[@dawas7057]

🌈💐Frankly, absolute creativity.... 💐🌈بصراحة ابدااااع مطلقة.....

[@veenibik336]

I would be happy if they actually give his ig or his website so we all can look his works more

[@windums560]

Me too

[@eggy8870]

This proves that all artists are geniuses.

[@sugascoat9902]

1:55 There’s me!

[@jamesfestini]

Ain’t nobody got time for that… Except for this guy

[@slentilus7439]

This looks like my worst nightmare! I cant even sit still watching this!

[@richardgordon]

This guy is a genius!

[@hysteria257]

Not to boast or anything, but I can make a play-dough snake.

[@OmarHashmi-qz1td]

I can colour within the lines

[@KamiEpix]

I can make 16-bit pixel art

[@pandasplayhouse9143]

I can use two pens at the same time.

[@argonize]

Forget making my day. You made my life

[@ramun9402]

This should be in modern art museums

[@idocovers847]

It should be illegal to be this good

[@mochiattoart514]

1:18 I'm confused, is that someone else, or is that the guy in the far left(yours) of my pfp? Edit: I changed my pfp.

[@jeje1421]

You really can’t tell if it’s Tom Hiddleston or not even though you’re a fan?

[@mochiattoart514]

@@jeje1421 I wasn't sure. It looked a bit obscure for some reason.

[@zareentasneem6354]

I was confuse too

[@cameronfrye8311]

That’s obviously tom

[@mochiattoart514]

@@cameronfrye8311 yeah, I changed my pfp

[@aa.r2588]

Wow art plus science plus carpentry plus tailoring

[@KaptenKetchup]

Why didn't they tell us more about the algorithm? That's the most interesting part!

[@shantilalparshotambhaiadod3640]

Did you get the algorithm? Or any lead, please share with me.

[@KaptenKetchup]

@@shantilalparshotambhaiadod3640 I wish I did, but I don't know anything. Sorry

[@shantilalparshotambhaiadod3640]

@@KaptenKetchup no problem. If u get any lead or person who know anything about it's algorithm then please inform me.

[@shantilalparshotambhaiadod3640]

@@KaptenKetchup Thankyou for reply

[@shantilalparshotambhaiadod3640]

@@KaptenKetchup Hey do you know how to use GitHub code

[@irinajanainavideos]

Art never ceases to amaze me

[@LOCKEYJ]

It’s amazing. No shade on the artist... but hyper realistic ? Who titled this video?

[@Trebinhas]

It is very realistic tho.

[@psychotubecreations7808]

This is absolutely incredible..... Supreme talent 👌

[@mariakhan6090]

0:12 speaker: ... To form a portrait of *a face* Audrey Hepburn: am I a joke to you?

[@pratishthabajracharya7]

*why doesn't this have even 1M views* This deserves Billions ☹️

[@izak5775]

Pratishtha Bajracharya okay

[@rosequartz6003]

IS THAT TOM HIDDLESTON!!!!!!🔥💖😘✊😩😍

[@dineshadireddy6416]

I can't wrap my head over this

[@saphirarose5866]

It would be cool if he used white thread and then painted the thread the colors he wanted.

[@lokilaufeyson7193]

1:17 I can't say how happy I am

[@azz774]

who is that tho

[@lokilaufeyson7193]

@@azz774 tom hiddleston

[@aun0684]

1:23 tom hiddleston??

[@stargazeronesixseven]

Bow & Salute! Talented Thread Artist indeed! ♥️🌷🕯

[@philaryswift]

*Tom Hiddleston* I see you are a man of (incredible) taste as well.

[@archankumarmyana40]

I am more impressed by the algorithm itself.

[@keerthiparam8177]

I have a very simple logic; I see Harry potter, I click.

[@bjh]

Um that’s not potter in the thumbnail

[@keerthiparam8177]

It was there

[@grandbaby5993]

Its now audrey

[@siddharth2796]

Oooofff

[@jaxepaxk2970]

i like how his first piece is just as good as the one the showed after.

[@shilloe13]

The other day, I just sliced my finger against the thread.

[@godteerks9239]

TWO YEARS!!! MY MANS GOT QUICK TALENT

[@red_lane3933]

They called me a madman

[@MrRara2000]

I'm a survivor

[@pooridge]

his patience is phenomenal

[@luckystars1632]

Quarantine train coming through. Next stop “Artist makes portraits on glass with a hammer”

[@Abdullah11010]

Uhh do you know there is actually an artist who makes amazing portraits with a glass by smashing it with a hammer.

[@mariavolei5592]

These comments stopped being funny the day coronavirus was born

[@cmw12]

This is awesome! I’ve never seen anything like it.

[@Obbee]

*and here i am can't even draw a stickman..thanks youtube i feel bad about myself..*

[@yue_tsuko]

You're a wizard, Alfred.

[@herosive8762]

Roses are red Violets are blue Whatever you do There will always be an Asian better than you

[@hisshoss67]

Roses are red I didn't want to say this But your comment *_IS RACIST!!_*

[@rynn9297]

Zeus not racist if it’s true

[@luckycat8392]

Even if ur Asian -_-

[@hisshoss67]

@@twenty-four3712 if you read the comment again it says "everything you do, there will always be an Asian better than you. He is talking about everything, video games, drawing, sports, singing, and more. And people who say that is racist cause they are just saying only Asians are good at that and that is not true. That's why stereotypes exist.

[@MaoDev]

@@twenty-four3712 it's racist in a good way for asians, but racist in a bad way for the other races.

[@nobody6317]

He nailed it

[@charlie-nq8tv]

is it me or he looks like a younger bang pd

[@thechawangtvofficial]

Salute such amazing talented people

[@amanda.._..]

i thought it was a westerner before his interview.....

[@teresafranco8101]

Wow that’s very impressive 👍

[@romanograsnick]

It would be even more genius if there wasn't the algorithm-part.

[@Marklee-lx7cd]

Many people do it without the algorithm he just did it to be more precise never the less he is a great.

[@dave5194]

@@Marklee-lx7cd ya know what they say: Work smarter, not harder.

[@hay0099]

@@dave5194 yup they do use algs to help them

[@sarasmith1544]

I am speechless 😱😱😱, and I thought that creativity vanished.

[@theliterarycompendium1936]

That’s incredible. Such an attention to detail, patience, preservative and creativity. Does the painting get put in a transparent case afterwards to protect it?

[@hasmikaghuzumtsyan6195]

BRAVO, MASTER!

[@fbisbrother5863]

I respect his Passion

[@musicianvarank3309]

This is insane

[@camilleoreilly7063]

The amount of patience

[@dolsiemercado3140]

Very, but very dedicated to his art. Lovely work👍🏻.

[@fearlessphoenix1011]

He's artistic at the same manner a genuis!!

[@jessierosenqueen5644]

Id love to see these kinds of art with no image references like a total original face or from your imagination hehe.

[@meghadridebnath1413]

Ingenious Mr. Chang, Thou are the leader of Thread-gang...

[@anisboucheneb736]

This is unfathomable