Making Hyperrealistic Portraits With A Single Thread | Master Craft
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Alfred Cheng is an artist based in Hong Kong. He makes portraits of people by using nails and weaving one single thread through the nails on a canvas. We went through his process and learned how he is able to do something as intricate as this, and then we saw a reveal of a finished piece.
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Making Portraits Woven By A Single Thread | Master Craft
"How I made these realistic portraits"
[A THREAD]
ahahhaha bisa aja lo
Twitard 101
Imagine what he can do with two threads.
@@pumpkinlatte6049 what's that?
Funny - since it's probably a single threaded computer program that gives him the schematic
He better get paid for this or I'm gonna scream
$50 a piece
@@JudahMaccabee_ JUST 50$!?
@@JudahMaccabee_ Sources?
@@JudahMaccabee_ ya kiddin??
@@JudahMaccabee_ WHAT- THAT'S ALL????
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 🤣
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.
This should be a 50 minute long video. Incredible art.
🌈💐Frankly, absolute creativity....
💐🌈بصراحة ابدااااع مطلقة.....
the amount of patience he has hammering the nails is astronomical
Wow art plus science plus carpentry plus tailoring
This guy is a genius!
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.
Art and Science intertwined is always beautiful
Yea ofc..sine and cosine waves fused together
I can't wrap my head over this
My big respect.
Not to boast or anything, but I can make a play-dough snake.
I can colour within the lines
I can make 16-bit pixel art
I can use two pens at the same time.
Very, but very dedicated to his art. Lovely work👍🏻.
2 years is not even long enough. Bruh he got talent
I see a guy who makes portraits with thread, i seen another guy make portraits on glass with a hammer! Wonders never cease! Humans!
I am a Fan! Beautiful You Deserve the Brightest Feature 👌
1:23 tom hiddleston??
This guy is genius
these should be sold for millions instead of the garbage they sell in the name of modern art
You are an amazing artist... Stay well.
Amazing creative 👍
Imagine how cool it would be if he made his program public
Wow
Wow how did he do the details.
Lovee itt💓😍
The other day, I just sliced my finger against the thread.
Alfred: Makes portraits out of a single strand of thread
Me: flubs up a Spirograph
It’s cross hatching with string. Pretty neat.
That looks hard I could never do that
me, not vacuuming for a week: *looks down*
the floor:
That's basically the whole premise of the string theory in quantum physics.
i thought it was a westerner before his interview.....
Cat: wow this is amazing!! Scritch,Scrotch..!!
After finishing he should use glue to stick the nails to the thread
How is the algorithm playing a role in what he does with the wire? He works on a white canvas.
I feel like it would be possible to program a cnc to do this for you
no. never.
how much radic to make a circal
How in the world would I know how long 5000 yards are?
If the thread breaks, can't he just tie a knot around the last nail and tie the new thread on the same nail and continue?
Now someone will try it in sticks
This is super impressive but tbh I would be Way more impressed if he just did it w/o the computer. Like idk, art.
I thought it was hair
Alfred - wakes up startled
Friend - were u having a nightmare?
Alfred - yes the thread snapped
Friend - wait.. wh..?
Lol
The comments are at 666
Mouldy Cheese you can like now
Deepashree Deepashree I’m wondering how much his art sells for
I can’t tell whether this is a reference to Greek mythology or not.
No-one:
Spiders in my house:
Charlotte? Is that you?
Ellie Spry Wilbur?
Lol
Talented spiders
@@flare_studios. Wilbur?
“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? 😀
hahaha that's what I was thinking xD
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I thought it sounded strange when he said that but didn't think much of it at the time lol. It was the emphasis
I know its so hard to make, but they try too hard to make it sounds hard and end up sounds pretentious.
*gets one disk*
*balances nails*
*gets another disk*
*drops the disk*
Yall should do something about inktober
Agreed. I'm not joining inktober, but I did make some inked portraits just for fun.
@@mochiattoart514 same
Yeah!
Its been almost a year, damn
been a year :)
Me: *Uses only around 2 m thread and tangled within 1 stitch*
Whoman why is this me?
Lolol
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.
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*
What if you just guessed his password and its right
Zunny Hummy underrated reply
anong nakakatawa dun?
@@zunnyhummy3374 idk there might be a face scanner and finger print scanners for it
@@NixtySign
Yh lol your probably right but I just said it for the sake of saying
I wanna know what spell Alfred used
not expelliarmus for sure 🙂
Avada kevadra (you need to do this spell on yourself first to make the potrait)
Spindle-Threadious Toportraitious is the spell used here. Text to speech that if you need help pronouncing it Harry.
You have your profile pictured by Alfred
Cocaine
for some reason i am more interested in the coding part
Well that's the art piece really, the portraits are demonstrations of it.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
I like how everyone in the comment section is making torture scenarios for this poor man
And you like it
@@The_unexplained e x a c t l y
I highly doubt Alfred is poor anymore 😆 🤣 😂
Looks like a computer graphic
It kinda does
he literally said in the video that he has an algorithm that tells him how to use the thread
@@questionmarkquestionmarkques they're saying that the art looks like the matrix structure of a computer model or something
This man deserves credit so MUCH MORE than the 99% of modern shit art
nah
Nerd yeah
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
@@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
@@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.
While I can't even untangle my earphones :D
Edit: I'm kinda sad for the guy who doesn't have ears
I don't even have ears
I don’t have a head
I don't even have
I don't even
@@randomroblox7042 good
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
th-cam.com/video/-S_l8GGxOhU/w-d-xo.html this is how it works (I promise its not a rickroll)
Setsuna Kujo I trusted you
Its just a giant 'connect the dots'...tedious but far from difficult.
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
Here is the real link th-cam.com/video/ub82Xb1C8os/w-d-xo.html
Man this should be a diy kit
With the canvas and nails done
And a manual says where to puut a thing where
@Melomanie thx ikr!
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.
@@lvleye316 wow
@@lvleye316 are you going to make it freely available to everyone? I would really likw to try this.
@@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.
Scissors: *I’m about to end this whole mans career*
Nice
Literally
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Whatever you do
There will always be an
Asian better than you
Roses are red
I didn't want to say this
But your comment
*_IS RACIST!!_*
Zeus
not racist if it’s true
Even if ur Asian -_-
@@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.
@@twenty-four3712 it's racist in a good way for asians, but racist in a bad way for the other races.
His patience is on another level
"String Theory"
I’m just wondering where the end of the string is
IKR
In yo house
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.
And literally a blank canvas
Exactly
Ikr
This literally could be done by a robot, there's not much here but painstaking work.
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
why not just tie the string near the edge, if it snaps? its ridiculous to let all that time go to waste.
Using one string is one of the uniqueness. So even if he tied, if it snaps, he have to redo anyway
Because it's way more magical this way.
@@yuki97kira if it snaps just tie it back then
@@MaoDev that'd make it 2 strings, not 1
Thats why you can't ever do it :)
I am a simple fangirl. I see Harry Potter vids, I click them faster than the speed of light.
Ik this is overrated sryy
A simple that likes trash👌
Same
Cool
This entire comment is cringy
They changed the thumbnail
This is art! Not buckets of acrylic paint being dumped on a canvas and swirled around.
Art is subjective. I do admit to liking some art better than others though
It's tracing using string.
It's also science.
@@pepesylvia848 you must be fun at parties
I wanna see his first ever finished piece. I've always thought that was cool seeing the improvement of my work and others
Oh you IMPROVE , that's a rare phenomenon . Good luck !!
*existential crisis
His first piece is at 2:58
@@omarispowell2949 How do you know that's his first piece?
The video is unclear.
@@pepesylvia848 it says it....
@@jxnnii7656 it was unclear
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.
You really can’t tell if it’s Tom Hiddleston or not even though you’re a fan?
@@jeje1421 I wasn't sure. It looked a bit obscure for some reason.
I was confuse too
That’s obviously tom
@@cameronfrye8311 yeah, I changed my pfp
I cross stitch and the thread often breaks from wear so that was the first thing I thought about.
I would be happy if they actually give his ig or his website so we all can look his works more
Me too
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
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 :)
@@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
@@sareneve1626 Waaay too wordy, use some more ponctuation and proper sentence structure.
Too long, didn't read. Sorry babe :/
*and here i am can't even draw a stickman..thanks youtube i feel bad about myself..*
Why didn't they tell us more about the algorithm? That's the most interesting part!
Did you get the algorithm? Or any lead, please share with me.
@@shantilalparshotambhaiadod3640 I wish I did, but I don't know anything. Sorry
@@KaptenKetchup no problem. If u get any lead or person who know anything about it's algorithm then please inform me.
@@KaptenKetchup Thankyou for reply
@@KaptenKetchup Hey do you know how to use GitHub code
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.
This looks like my worst nightmare! I cant even sit still watching this!
Artistic genius at it’s finest... amazing result respect to this gentleman
😂 Research fine arts
Ah yes, Adobe illustrator
IS THAT TOM HIDDLESTON!!!!!!🔥💖😘✊😩😍
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.
How these people born with a such creative minds that is way ahead of this timeline, does God really gifts some people with his gifts inbuilt to such people ??!!!
It would be cool if he used white thread and then painted the thread the colors he wanted.
0:12 speaker: ... To form a portrait of *a face*
Audrey Hepburn: am I a joke to you?
This isn't art. It's just a load of tedious copying work.
I have a very simple logic; I see Harry potter, I click.
Um that’s not potter in the thumbnail
It was there
Its now audrey
Oooofff
0:05 IF U DONT MNOW WHO IT WAS I rlly don’t know 😒
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This is one of the most beautiful things i have ever seen
I am going to learn this
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.
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.
*me struggling over rainbow loom*
my guy Alfred here:
1:55 There’s me!
give me a break! You really think if he gets half way through a work and his thread snaps he's just gonna start all over? Na, connect the line again, you would never notice!!
I like how the video gives us a walkthrough, as if we're capable of doing it too.
hello, can I ask how to contact or to comunicate aldred cheng??? Im so very interesting in this art, but i have some questions, how to measure length between each nails.?? please help on this. thanks
They called me a madman
I'm a survivor
"It took him 2 years from where he could barely make out a face to THESE"
*no discernable difference*
is it me or he looks like a younger bang pd
1:21 I GENUINELY LET OUT A SCREAM
Me. Too.
Quarantine train coming through. Next stop “Artist makes portraits on glass with a hammer”
Uhh do you know there is actually an artist who makes amazing portraits with a glass by smashing it with a hammer.
These comments stopped being funny the day coronavirus was born
Did you finish it?
Him:yes
What did it cost?
A thread
*Tom Hiddleston*
I see you are a man of (incredible) taste as well.