Nigerian artist Arinze Stanley works with graphite and charcoal pencils to render enormous portraits of his subjects. Spending upwards of 200 hours on an artwork, Stanley agonizes over the most minute details of each piece to painstakingly capture reflections of light, droplets of sweat, or tangles of hair.

Where some hyper-realistic artists lean towards idealized perfection, Stanley instead focuses on pure realism, infusing portraits with a raw sense of emotion and drama. The scale of each piece, always slightly larger than life, adds an uncanny three-dimensional aspect.

Arinze's work is being discussed at Reddit - you need to check out the comments.

After seeing his paintings, it downed on me that we are sio abundantly blessed by nature - and stupidly messed by our politicians.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/03/arinze-stanley-hyperrealistic-portraits/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/61lr74/till_he_comes_arinze_stanley_graphite_and/

https://www.instagram.com/harinzeyart/

http://www.omenkagallery.com/

cc: seun

Waoh...Nice something

Simply Brilliant!

Wow ....This is beautiful