Celebrities pen portraits by

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20 year’s old English artist Josh Bryan creates amazing celebrity pen portraits using just a black pen. His portraits collection, called Triangulations, is more than just a remarkable artwork but also a gemetrical precious stone. 

Subjects of his pen portraits are big stars like Johnny Depp, Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Helen Bonham Carter, Johnny Knoxville and Amy Winehouse. Each portrait is made by hundreds of triangles. And no, it’s not the product of any vector software like Illustrator, Josh has drawn these by hand.

By  Looking at his flickrprofile  it’s pretty clear that Josh is a polyvalent artist as he shows in his porfolio really good photos as well:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshyouare/

“The creative process is quite simple,” Bryan told My Modern Metropolis.  ”I make sure the image I use as a reference isn’t too well-known, even though the subjects are. I then map triangles over the face drawing, around the different tones on the face. The lines are added in afterwards to determine the amount of tone needed in each triangle.” When I first saw some of his works, I was convinced they were digital renderings made with advanced software like Adobe Illustrator, but it turns out every line is drawn by hand with black fineliner pens. After examining these incredible artworks more carefully, I noticed some of the lines weren’t perfectly straight, proof that the almost computer-like portraits were indeed drawn by a human hand.

Each one of Josh Bryan’s triangulations is made up of hundreds of triangles, and can take between 7 and 12 hours to complete, depending on the number of lines that need to be drawn in every triangle in order to darken the tone. His collection of celebrity portraits includes renderings of Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham Carter. The latest addition to the series is a mind-blowing portrait of late singer Amy Winehouse.