Gradient Mesh Tool in Illustrator allows artist to to create photorealism drawings. Below are some examples of the top notch artist showing their works online. All of the illustrations below are made using Illustrator. No photoshop!
Takashi Morisak (Japan)
Yukio Miyamoto (Japan)
Link to old website of Yukio Miyamoto
Ann Paidrick (USA)
Halim Ghodbane (Algeria)
Reggie Gilbert (USA)
Wayne Forest (Canada)
Highside (Japan)
Brooke Nuñez Fetissoff (USA - Chicago)
Henke Svensson (Sweden)
Koji Masui (Japan)

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August 22nd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
They look real! Amazing!
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Are these artists saying they created these photographs, or copied them? Because I have one of those pictures from (it’s a rather old stock photo), and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t created in illustrator. I could be wrong …
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
looks pretty cool. It just a matter of diligence
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Hi Tracie, all of them are created with illustrator. They may have use a stock photo to trace, this might be possible.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
I like It.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:43 am
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October 12th, 2008 at 4:12 am
now the real question here is why don’t you just take a photo?
but I guess the answer is gonna be on the lines of because you can
October 12th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Hi Yoshike, with gradient mesh you can blow the picture up real big without loss of resolution. That makes a difference from a photo.
November 12th, 2008 at 5:50 am
I agree with Tracie… I have the image of the girl that Halim Ghodbane (Algeria)
posted. It is from an old stock photo from Corel I believe. It does not look different from the original???
November 18th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
I could’nt belive.
If could have the ai file.
I would say it’s really from Adobe Illustrator.
November 18th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Are the .ai files available to look at for these?
November 18th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Yes, they are really done using gradient mesh. If you visit their website they actually show the gradient mesh wire. However the ai is not available for download.