Jaeyeol Han is an artist I met doing a life drawing class in Seoul years ago. Needless to say it was intimidating being surrounded by animators and young artist students like him, with his incredible drawing skills. While I was struggling to get anything even in proportion let alone with any flair, in the seconds we had for each pose he would be churning out both realistic and muscular stylised figures.
After majoring in painting, he's been working a lot on portraits - also my favourite subject matter. These portraits have a sense of urgency about them but are delivered from eyes trained to observe acute and subtle emotions caught in a moment. Some I have more of an immediate connection with than others and several I would like to purchase (you can arrange to buy by emailing him - after spending some time living in Ireland, where he had his last show, his English is pretty good). His next show, in Seoul, is in September and details are on his website:
Jaeyeol Han's website
Check out his website for his virtual gallery of more portraits in this series.
Here is the video these stills are captured from:
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