Looking at Dan Lester's work for the first time, it is easy to get confused as to whether you are looking at a photograph or a drawing. Well, the answer is both.
第一次看到丹·莱斯特的作品,你可能会觉得有些混乱:到底是摄影照片还是绘画作品?答案是:两者皆有。

The Leeds-based artist uses digital techniques to combine his own photographs with pencil drawings. The works are blended together digitally to create beautifully inventive fusion portraits.
这位来自英国利兹市的年轻艺术家,用数字技术将自己的照片和铅笔素描结合在一起,这两种艺术形式通过数位方式混合在一起,创造出了别出心裁的美丽画像。

Using his friends as models, the 'obsessive digital doodler' has created a range of intriguing pieces.
他用自己的好朋友当模特,这位“对数字技术着迷的涂鸦手” 创造出了一系列有趣的作品。

A photograph taken before one of his works, showing Lester with his two friends, visually explains the process adopted by the artist.
下面这副莱斯特和两个朋友的画像,在制作作品前他会先拍一张照片,照片非常形象的解释了艺术家的作品思路。

After he has finished digitally adapting the picture, half of the subjects' bodies are made to look as if they have been drawn on a blank canvas.
在他用数字技术对照片进行处理后,模特的一半身材看起来就像是花在空白画布上的。

The artist also takes inspiration for one of his pieces from the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim, which was adopted into a movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, in 2010.
他还从2010年的电影《歪小子斯科特对抗世界》中吸取灵感,根据系列漫画小说“歪小子斯科特” 的形象创造了一副作品。