With
zips, power plugs, laces and buttons adorning their bodies, these young models
look like something out of a traveling freak show.
But
they are in fact the latest walking exhibits of Japanese artist Chooo-San's
incredible illusionary make-up art.
Bored
with digitally enhanced pictures, the 19-year-old student decided to see how far
she could push her limits without technology - with impressive
results.
Japanese
college student and artist, Choo-San, has created more incredible makeup art
illusions on people's bodies
Using
only acrylic paints, these amazingly realistic images are enough to make anyone
look twice.
Chooo-San, a
first year student at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan, garnered
attention in June when she painted misplaced mouths, extra eyes and eerie
robotic extras to the human body.
For her
second tranche of work, she painted lifelike zips, buttons and shoes laces to
skin of her willing friends to give the illusion they are bursting at the
seams.
Using
only acrylic paints, these amazingly realistic images are enough to make anyone
look twice.
Using
no digital-editing, the bizarre body-modifications are painstakingly applied
using just paint, and they no doubt give passers-by a fright.
Chooo-San
discovered her talent after doodling eyes on the back of her own hand during
breaks from studying for university admission exams.
But it
soon evolved to painting on other people and creating creepy effects such as
adding multiple facial and robotic-style features.
Chooo-San
explains: 'I don't really have a reason why I started doing those pictures. But
I guess I was a little sick of everyone making pictures with their computers and
wanted to see how far I can go without those technologies such as
Photoshop.
'My
works are all done with acrylic paints. They are all painted on skin directly
and I don't use computers or anything to change the picture
afterwards.'
