Today it is difficult to find a person who has not seen (at least in the photo) a 3D-drawing on the pavement. This type of street art is invariably very popular with both artists and numerous spectators, which all passers-by involuntarily become. When did 3D street art appear and what is the technique for creating three-dimensional paintings? This will be discussed below.
By itself, street painting has not a dozen years. Even in medieval Italy, the public was entertained by wandering artists who painted various subjects of religious content on city squares. With the advent of new trends and techniques of fine art, the style of street drawings was also improved. Today, voluminous paintings are one of the most progressive and actively developing types of free painting.
It is not possible today to give the only correct answer to the question when the first chalk drawings appeared on 3D asphalt. With relative accuracy, we can say that already in the early 80s of the last century, residents of Western Europe could see amazing voluminous pictures on the roads. The most famous masters of this unusual graphics are deservedly considered the Italian Eduardo Relero (in some sources - Eduard Rolero), the British Julian Beaver, the German Manfred Stader and, of course, the unconditional "guru" of street 3D - Edgar Muller - a resident of Germany. Depending on their own technique, 3D-depictions on asphalt are depicted by artists using special crayons, oil, acrylic or spray paints.
Nowadays, there are a fairly large number of manuals and schools that offer everyone to master this unusual modern art form. The technology for transferring images to asphalt requires painstaking and thorough preparation. Chalk drawings on 3D asphalt are first printed on a plain sheet of paper. After that, special marking in the form of a scale grid is applied to the image. Then the same markup is transferred to the asphalt and with the necessary increase in proportions, a preliminary sketch of the future picture is formed on it. The next step - the most difficult - actually creating a full-color image.
It is worth noting the fact that the 3D-drawing on asphalt acquires the required volume only if it is viewed from a certain angle. It is enough to slightly change the angle of view - and the three-dimensional effect disappears, the viewer sees only a distorted flat picture.
Today, this technology is used not only to create a 3D-drawing on the pavement, but also as a tool for creating an unusual interior in various entertainment venues and home interiors. It is this technique that is used in large-scale advertising companies, which allows attracting a huge audience of potential consumers to the project.
Despite the possibility of selling their works expensive, true 3D professionals consider their talent to be just a pleasant hobby and create incredible asphalt drawings in 3D just for their own pleasure and to the delight of all those who are lucky to be there when they finish work.