The Guinness Artist

David Gilhooley is known as the Guinness Artist, because he occasionally uses Guinness beer to paint watercolors. But he now has a second reason for the name after winning the Guinness World Record for most pencil portraits drawn in 12 hours. He sketched 200 of them.

By my calculations, that means he had to complete approximately one sketch every three and-a-half minutes. [Huddersfield Examiner]

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Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 08, 2014
Category: Art | World Records

Comments

And not even a single stick figure!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/08/14 at 09:22 AM

Compared to some of the stuff that gets branded as "art" on this site, this guy is decidedly un-weird.

Posted by crc on 12/08/14 at 10:16 AM

Nice drawings, especially considering how quickly they were made! :lol: :coolsmile:
BTW Wasn't Gilhooley the name of Tanya Harding's boyfriend?

Posted by Tyrusguy on 12/08/14 at 11:38 AM

Wow, beautifully done, amazing when you consider the time invovled too.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 12/08/14 at 04:08 PM

If speed is the only requirement that should be easy to beat. Everyone who's ever been to art school has done one minute timed drawings. I think I would find it hard to keep it up for 12 hours, but that's just me....

Posted by Cougar Allen on 12/11/14 at 11:00 PM

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