Steven Wiltshire

You may remember Steven from Blue Peter in the eighties, he was this kid with autism who could draw amazingly detailed pictures from memory. Now and again i'll remember him and look him up on his website and you see these quite nice detailed drawings and i think yeah theyre ok, what was all the fuss about, then you read the info and its a view of san francisco that he visited about 5 years before and he did it from memory and then i find myself swearing with amazement, for instance he spent nearly a week doing a detailed mural drawing of Tokyo's cityscape after just a 20 minute helicopter ride over the city. I bet he never forgets his packed lunch.
Refresh your memory here
Picture via lineandcolours.com

2 Comments:
i remember. didn't they show him drawing the houses of parliament or something like?
I see he's progressed to oil pastels? I like the pencil ones with coloured cars tho.
Frankly I have nothing of any consequence to add here other than more amazed swearwords and much gratitude for the reminder. But I managed to log in again after 6 months so I'm a bit chatty...
wow $%&£@ thanks!
Mental!
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