Chuck Close, "Phil"

It's still mind-blowing to me how someone can actually paint something like this. When I think of how I can't even draw a dog or a house that looks even remotely good, I can't imagine someone being able to pain a portrait that really looks like a photograh. I wonder if there is a photograph of this person, so then I can maybe see some sort of a difference in the exucution of the two styles.

(http://www.usc.edu/programs/cst/deadfiles/lacasis/ansc100/library/images/794.html)