Impressive Digital Circlism by Ben Heine

Impressive Digital Circlism by Ben Heine : Portaits of celebrities by painstakingly building their faces by placing circles one by one. Ben Heine is a painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer. See More Pictures After Break...

A Belgian artist born in the Ivory Coast, Ben Heine is most famous for his Pencil vs Camera series, which was covered by many of the major online media outlets, but his Digital Circlism portraits are equally, if not more impressive. Using a sharp round brush in Photoshop CS4, he applies thousands of circles on a black background, until he creates a colorful, realistic portrait. You might think he uses some kind of automated process to apply every circle, but that’s actually the most remarkable thing about Ben Heine – he adds every one of the circles individually. Each circle has a different color, a different tone and a different size, which makes creating a single one of these artworks very time consuming. His latest work, a portrait of hip-hop icon Eminem, is made exclusively with flat circles on a black background, and took nine days of intensive labour to complete.