Artist Uses Dribbling Skills to Paint Soccer Stars

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Shanghai-based Hong Yi or 'Red' as she likes to call herself is known for her unusual and imaginative portraits. Her previous masterpieces include a sketch of Chinese film director Yimou Zhang created with 790 pairs of black, white and grey socks and one of basketball superstar Yao Ming painted with - you guessed it - a basketball! Popular Hollywood actor Jackie Chen was portrayed with chopsticks, while British singer/songwriter Adele's portrait was created with melted candles.

Hence it came as no surprise when on June 17th, to celebrate the start of World Cup Soccer, Red unveiled a portrait of her three favorite soccer stars - Argentina's Lionel Messi, Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo and Brazil's Neymar, that was created by dribbling a paint-covered soccer ball.

The artist who says she loves to paint but not with a paintbrush, began by dribbling with a ball doused in yellow paint for the background and outline of the players. After that came the red, blue and yellow to represent their respective team colors and the black for the hair. Then the most difficult part of all - adding their distinguishing facial features, for which she used a neutral grey. The end result as you can see, are portraits that any artist would be proud of.

And while Hong Yi describes her painting skills as 'ok' and her dribbling skills 'questionable', after seeing the results, most would agree that she is being extremely modest on both counts!

Resources: designboom.com,ohiseered.com,artnet.com

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  • kooooalmost 6 years
    WOW!!!!!
    • Kendudeealmost 6 years
      I can’t even draw that with my hands!
      • angelf7
        angelf7almost 6 years
        nice
        • bookstory14
          bookstory14almost 6 years
          She is such a good artist, and she creates with whatever she has, be it soccer ball, basketball, or socks! She's so cool....
          • chlooe
            chlooealmost 6 years
            That is so cool! People should start making this kind of art. This is very cool.
            • yellingout
              yellingoutalmost 6 years
              This is soooooooooooo cool like legit!
              • thatredheadxd
                thatredheadxdalmost 6 years
                Wow! I like soccer and art, and seeing both of those together blow my mind! lol xD
              • reeealmost 6 years
                nice
                • ajg16
                  ajg16almost 6 years
                  Absolutely mind-blowingly amazing!!!
                  • I love soccer!!almost 6 years
                    Super cool I wish that I could do that!!