Magzoid Magazine - Luxury Magazine in the Creative Space | Feb 2023

Hyperrealistic
portraits with details
that include every skin
pore on the subject’s
face
“My goal isn’t to replicate a picture by hand. My goal
is to give life to it. To make viewers feel what the
model or I feel,” says Matteo Zoccheddu.
- Exclusive to Magzoid
Italian artist Matteo Zoccheddu has a keen
eye for details. You can clearly see this in
his hyperrealistic charcoal portraits that take
months to complete, with details that include
every skin pore on a person’s face.
Since a very young age, Matteo has always
been captivated by art and particularly realism.
After spending his childhood drawing anime
characters, one day he decides to, as a joke,
make a portrait of his grandfather and that will
be the beginning of a passion he had never
considered before.
Thanks to YouTube, he is now able to see what
real hyperrealistic artists can do and spends
countless hours watching those videos, viewing
the process of a portrait from start to finish.
But he doesn’t only watch. He practices
every moment he can, experimenting with
different styles and all kinds of materials. He has
become obsessed with details and the search
for perfection only for his own amusement. In
fact, he didn’t know that with this kind of art,
one could make a living, sometimes even a
great living, so he stopped before his 20’s.
During this period of distance, his mind kept
bringing him back to this passion from time
to time, even though he is convinced it was
useless. Almost a decade later, joining social
media, he is now aware of the vast world of
realistic drawings and has started posting his
works. After receiving very positive feedback
from the community, he decided to take this
more seriously and started drawing for many
hours every day, rapidly improving and gradually
incrementing the difficulty of every new portrait.
He started making portraits of celebrities he
admires, like Daniel Radcliffe from the Harry
Potter saga or Hayao Miyazaki, the great director
father of the Ghibli movies.
He soon decides to stop with celebrity portraits
During this period of
distance, his mind kept
bringing him back to
this passion from time to
time, even though he is
convinced it was useless.
feeling the need to create something unique
that can’t be easily copied by everyone so
he buys himself a camera and starts taking
pictures himself and studying photography
on the side.
Not only can he now make unique art, but
he also has access to more details that the
low-quality images from the internet didn’t
have and this allows him to put those details
in his new artworks, increasing the level of
his works even more and that’s one of the
things that keep him motivated. The prospect
of improving every day and the desire to push
his limits more and more.
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