3D-Portraits aus Schrauben

He starts with a base, plywood panel, and then places pages of a phone book on top. (Cool fact: He’ll use pages from his subjects’ local area.) He then draws out a face and pre-drills 8,000 to 10,000 holes, by hand. As he drills in the screws, Myers doesn’t rely on any computer software to guide him, he figures it out as he goes along. “For me, I consider this a traditional sculpture and all my screws are at different depths,” he says.

One of the most challenging parts is getting rid of the flat drawing underneath because he then has to paint over each of the screw heads, individually, so that in the end, the sculpture looks like an actual portrait.

geile idee und gut ausschauen tuts auch. nur leider kann ich sowas immer nur begrenzt genießen, weil ich die ganze zeit daran denken muss, wie scheiße-viel arbeit da drin steckt