Jody Steel

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Jody Steel is an American artist, known for her photorealistic body-paintings.

Steel depicts her illustration process in a series of timelapse videos. She became known after a classroom sketch of Breaking Bad's Walter White on her thigh gained international attention online. [1]

Some of her other work gained over 70 million views online. [2] Steel was a film production student at Emerson College until 2013. [3]

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References

  1. Josh Chesler (2 March 2016). "Jody Steel's Paintings on Skin Are Crazy Realistic". LA Weekly. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  2. Melissa Stanger (11 March 2016). "This art project shows the gut-wrenching agony of wanting to be thin". Revelist. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  3. Andy Campbell (13 September 2013). "Leg Drawings: Ripped Skin, Cats and Breaking Bad Featured on Jody Steel's Epic Leg Canvases". Huffington Post. Retrieved 8 January 2019.