Video: Animals Drawn by an 11-Year-Old Prodigy: Ballpoint Pen Paintings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Today few people will surprise anyone with pencil and ballpoint pen drawings, many artists prefer stationery to paints. True, the works of the Serbian prodigy Dusan Krtolica will surely be remembered by readers of the Culturology. RF website: an 11-year-old teenager creates breathtaking canvases, in his imaginary world live both prehistoric animals that died out millions of years ago, and those that still inhabit our planet.
Dusan Krtolica is a fifth-grader at the Laza Kostic school in Belgrade. He began painting at the age of two, and by eight he already had three solo exhibitions on a national scale behind him. Animals, birds and legendary knights are what the young artist most often depicts.
Dusan Krtolica knows a lot of interesting facts about life on our planet: when his parents gave him an encyclopedia, he studied it for three weeks, and remembered a lot. For example, a schoolchild can without hesitation enumerate 65 species of marsupials known to science, talk about geological eras and animals that inhabited the Earth at one time or another. In the future, the guy dreams of becoming a zoologist, but for now he has set himself the goal of drawing all the variety of fauna.
The first drawing of the talented guy was the image of a whale, but the parents did not attach any importance to this, but Dusan Krtolica began to draw every day, referring to the elders for new "portions" of blank sheets. Today, by the way, he spends about 500 sheets a week on his art.
When relatives saw that the young artist was not going to stop there, they even turned to a psychotherapist for help. The specialist assured them that such a hobby does not pose a threat to the development of the child's psyche, noted the boy's high level of intelligence, said that drawings for him are a kind of emotional release.
Dusan Krtolica was very energetic from infancy, now he not only draws ancient animals, but also plays with his drawings. The works of the 11-year-old prodigy are gradually becoming more and more famous in the world. The guy has already managed to visit the USA, Australia and India with his works, he has more than 5 thousand friends and 7 thousand subscribers on the Facebook social network. Despite his popularity, Dusan Krtolica remains a child, he gets along well with his peers, often draws tattoos on the hands of classmates with a marker with a picture of their favorite animals with a marker.
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