Creative Part-Photo And Art-Sketch By Sebastien De Grosso

He certainly DRAWS attention to himself in this series of selfies, as he brings himself to life in cleverly composed artwork (Ross Parry)
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Artist Sebastien De Grosso is very creative.

He turns self-portrait photos into animated cartoon, before photographing his works to produce cleverly merged artworks which are part-photo and part-sketch.

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Sebastien’s first sketch was simply a unique idea for a Facebook profile picture (Ross Parry) 2 / 9 Yahoo News. | Photo by Ross Parry / Ross Parry Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Pinterest ClosePrevious imageNext image

Sebastien De Grosso turns a self-portrait into an animated cartoon, before photographing his work to give the impression of a painting rather than a digital image (Ross Parry) 1 / 9 Yahoo News. | Photo by Ross Parry / Ross Parry Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Pinterest ClosePrevious imageNext image

Two faced: ‘The drawings are done with a simple pencil on a sheet of paper. Then, the drawing is scanned, cleaned and added to the picture with Photoshop tools,’ Sebastien explained (Ross Parry) 4 / 9 Yahoo News. | Photo by Ross Parry / Ross Parry Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Pinterest ClosePrevious imageNext image

The artist was taught to draw by his grandmother (Ross Parry) 6 / 9 Yahoo News. | Photo by Ross Parry / Ross Parry Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Pinterest ClosePrevious imageNext image

Need a hand? Following his sketching success, Sebastien is now hoping to develop his series further (Ross Parry) 9 / 9 Yahoo News. | Photo by Ross Parry / Ross Parry Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Pinterest ClosePrevious imageNext image

Sebastien uses the sketches to illustrate his life, and events that have been important to him (Ross Parry) 5 / 9 Yahoo News. | Photo by Ross Parry / Ross Parry Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Pinterest ClosePrevious imageNext image

‘Some people really love the idea to mix photography and sketches, but some others don’t like it, or say it’s too simple to do,’ he added (Ross Parry) 7 / 9 Yahoo News. | Photo by Ross Parry / Ross Parry Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Pinterest ClosePrevious imageNext image

He explained: ‘My grandmother taught me to draw, and by watching her drawing and painting made me want to do the same.’ (Ross Parry) 8 / 9 Yahoo News. | Photo by Ross Parry / Ross Parry Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Pinterest ClosePrevious imageNext image