Noel Cruz - this name would sooner or later be recognized by the whole world. The guy liked drawing too much, and he did it superbly. But he preferred the standard painting doll painting. He emphasized innovation and uses plastic faces of dolls to create portraits.
Origin
Noel Cruz comes from a poor Filipino family. He was the eldest child and, having seven more brothers and sisters, he had the hardest time. The boy could not dream of games and entertainment. From an early age he worked, cleaning in wealthy houses.
Like every child, Noel dreamed of having many toys, but a modest family budget could not afford such luxury. Having no toys, no time to play with other children of his age, he still finds a way out: Noel begins to draw.
Initially, his drawings were similar to ordinary children's scribbles. Once, when he was 12 years old, he watched the Miss World television broadcast and from that time on began to paint exclusively portraits. His desire and talent for painting were so strong that from the age of 16 he begins to earn good money by painting portraits to order. And despite the fact that in his entire life he did not attend a single lesson in the visual arts.
How it all began?
A little later, Noel married and emigrated with his wife to the States. Due to the television broadcast of the Miss World show, the artist began to paint portraits, but now he became a talented master in doll painting thanks to his wife.
Noel's wife was seriously engaged in collecting dolls. Wanting to help his wife in her hobby, Noel once saw dolls whose faces were painted by hand. This impressed him so much that he wanted to paint the same way. However, creating portraits on small, voluminous doll faces was much more difficult than on a wide, clean and flat canvas. But there was no turning back - portraits on doll faces turned into the main occupation of a talented artist.
Repeint
For eight long years Noel practiced tirelessly, and this did not go unnoticed - he was recognized as an outstanding master of doll painting. He draws his masterpieces on the faces of ordinary Barbie dolls, meanwhile his wife makes costumes to create the necessary image.
Social status is not a hindrance to true talent and perseverance. What the artist is doing can also be denoted by the word “repain”, which means redrawing. Noel washes off the factory coat of paint from the faces of the dolls and on the cleansed “canvas” creates her masterpieces, creating unsurpassed full-fledged images. He is scrupulous about his work, not losing sight of a single detail.
Celebrity Dolls
Today we can say that this is a master with a capital letter. Now he is the world famous Noel Cruz. Dolls, whose photos are striking in their resemblance to the stars and characters of famous films, are obliged to his wife with the finishing touch of the painted model, which creates the appropriate clothes and selects the necessary accessories.
Noel is inspired by Hollywood life. From under his hands heroes from such famous films as “Harry Potter”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Twilight”, “Gone with the Wind”, “The Lord of the Rings” came into the world.
You can spend a lot of time looking at the miniatures of Hollywood stars of both the old and the new “guards”. The artist is a man of amazing talent, Noel Cruz, his doll-stars are strikingly similar to the originals. Among the stars are Nicole Kidman, Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie, Betty Davis, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Celine Dion, David Craig, Madonna, Uma Thurman and many others.
Noel Cruz dolls have a stunning resemblance to the originals, they can really be called alive. All the details of the image are embodied down to the smallest detail. And each successive work fully shows how great a talent an artist from a poor Filipino family has. You can talk about his works forever, but it's better to see everything with your own eyes.