Marcello Barenghi

Marcello Barenghi http://www.marcellobarenghi.com/p/about.html is an Italian YouTuber known for producing hyper-realistic pieces of artwork.
==Biography==
Born in 1969, Marcello was raised in Milan in a stimulating environment: his father loved drawing, painting, clay modeling and building model fighter planes. Being raised around art, Marcello naturally fell in love with it: in elementary school, he would regularly doodle characters such as Spider-Man, Steel Jeeg and Mazinger. He found inspiration from the comics artist Gil Kane.
In the early 1980s, Marcello discovered colouring pencils. Thanks to his discovery, at age 11 he won a computer ZX81, by participating in a TV contest with a caricature of Gaetano Scirea; on the phone, his mother attempted to tell the announcer, Roberto Bettega, that Marcello was only a child, but he did not believe her. It was around this point that his parents realized they needed to encourage his artistic skills.
Marcello participated in two drawing competitions with a religious theme, receiving two honorable mentions by the then-Archbishop Carlo Maria Martini. In the mid-80s, Marcello got to attend the art school "Boccioni" in Milan where he began with copies from life, using charcoal and sanguine pencil, and he learned the techniques of tempera, watercolor and 3-D clay-modeling.
At his high school, "Liceo Artistico Statale Umberto Boccioni"http://www.marcellobarenghi.com/p/my-school-years.html, his Plastic Arts teacher was the art restorer Luciano Formica. Marcello greatly admired and respected him: after graduation, before deciding to continue studying, he worked at Luciano's studio for some time, restoring a Roman mosaic and part of the Roman circus in Milan.
In 1985, Marcello discovered the airbrush: with this, he was able to greatly improve his pencil drawings.
After high school, Marcello enrolled at the School of Illustration "Arte e Messaggio" in Milan, at the Sforzesco Castle, where his teacher Anna Montecroci became his primary point of reference. She was the first to talk to Marcello about his personal style of hyper-realism and she advised him to leave Italy for USA or France.
In the mid-1990s, the rise of computer graphics seemed to be the end of traditional illustration for Marcello, so he decided to stop drawing and continue to study. Marcello graduated in Architecture and passed the Italian professional exam at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
==History==
Around twenty years after quitting drawing, Marcello was browsing drawing videos on YouTube when he decided to create his own account and try it for himself. So, on February 18, 2013 Marcello uploaded his first video: "Crazy Speed Drawing: Metal Skull - 3D illusion".
He originally began uploading drawings of silver-colored objects, but over time he shifted to producing artwork of a variety of objects instead.
==Content==
Marcello has been dubbed "the Italian magician of the 3D Art", specialising in mixed media and creating hyper-realistic and trick art. He regularly produces high-quality, photo-realistic artworks; he generally uses everyday objects as reference, although he does occasionally use people and more obscure and large-scale references instead. 
His artworks are almost always created on a white page. He typically begins with a pencil guideline before progressing to adding colour through paint. He then uses an airbrush to create a shadow behind the object, usually on the lower-right of the image. Finally, he adds highlights and shadows using colouring pencil. 
==References==
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