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The World's 'Most Realistic Finger Painting' And Its Creation On an iPad

The 'fake' painting

Lambert who is a trained artist and oil painter used the app Procreate to reduce the brush sizes to only a few pixels - which in turn lets him zoom in to apply stroke upon stroke to produce the ultra-lifelike portrait.

The incredible detail of the work has led to some doubting whether the finger painting is all Lambert claims it to be. Critics have pointed out that apps like Procreate allow the user to easily add on images or photos and set them as paintings.As such, some have attempted to claim that Lambert's step-by-step video is in fact played backwards and is not a true representation of a life-like portrait of Freeman. However, Lambert's portfolio of iPad work is extensive and includes pictures of Barack Obama and Beyonce - all incredibly realistic.

Original image

They may look like the same thoughtful photographic portrait of Morgan Freeman, but in fact one of these is a hyper-realistic finger-painting, created using only an iPad.If you are still not convinced, the British artist responsible, Kyle Lambert, 26, has produced a video to accompany his painstaking work viewed by almost four million people on YouTube - the only thing it is missing is a trademark narration by the Hollywood legend.The ultra-detailed picture, originally by photographer Scott Gries took Lambert one month and constitutes 285,000 finger strokes that blend ontop of one another to produced the precise wisps of hair in Freeman's beard, the wrinkles in his forehead and the freckles on his cheeks - rendering it almost indistinguishable from the original image.

Inspired by the iPad art of legendary British artist, David Hockney, who used Apple's tablet to paint in 2010, Lambert originally used an app known as Brushes, before updating to Procreate. Even Apple - the creators of the iPad - were so impressed they invited him to give a speech at their Macworld Conference in San Francisco - just days after he posted the picture.

Lambert's work using the Brushes App

Another of Lambert's work in Brushes before moving to Procreate