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INVERTED ART

Report on Contemporary Arts


Inverted art is a unique kind of drawing
or sketching that uses exact opposite
(complementary) of the colors that are present in
the reference photo. You must use
DESCRIPTION
complementary colors to achieve your expected
AND outcome. For example, when the color black is
CHARACTERISTIC inverted, it turns into white. This art looks like an
S unfinished sketch or abstract. It even looks weird
sometimes. But when it is iverted into negative, it
reveals photorealistic art.
A Malaysian artist named Brian Lai
invented the intervted art technique. He made it
while he was in a middle of class in 2013. The
idea pop out of his mind when he suddenly
remembered when he was thirteen and his friend
HISTORY took a photo of his signature with a negative lens.
His first inverted art is a wolverince sketch. To
create this, he first draw out a reference with
normal coloring. Then, he inverts the colors from
the normal sketch.
There are several inverted art artist but only few are
very known.
1. Brian Lai or Zheng Chien ( 赖征谦 )
Birth date: 18 December 1993
Gender: Male

Prominent Artist Nationality: Chinese


Language: Cantonese, English
Resides in: Penang, Malaysia.
(To know more about him:
http://briartlai.blogspot.com/p/about-brian-lai.html?
m=1)
2. Liam York
Birthdate: December 31, 1994
Gender: Male
Nationality: British
Prominent Artist Language: English
Resides in: United Kingdom
(To know more about him and his works:
https://www.deviantart.com/mryorkie)
Examples

Brian Lai
Examples

Liam York
Examples
(works of Liam York)
Examples
(works of Liam York)
Examples
(works of Liam York)
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YOU!

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