Talk about fine art. If normal people tried to put pencil to tissue paper they'd likely rip the delicate material – but that's not the case for this teen. 16-year-old Siphesihle Hlatshwayo from Joburg sketches striking pencil portraits on tissue paper.
Siphesihle Hlatshwayo with some of his striking pencil portraits, sketched on tissue paper.
"When I'd come home from school, I'd stop at the shop and buy Dragon Ball Z stickers because they were my favourite cartoon. When I got home, I'd use the stickers to trace the different characters – that's how I learnt to draw and grow my skill.Every time I’d ask my granny to get me some drawing paper, she’d give me tissue and told me to draw on it.Trying to express myself on tissue was hard because the paper is so thin but I eventually got it right.
My granny passed away before my work took off but I'd like to think that she gave me the tissue paper for a reason, knowing that something great would come of it.
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