Code-drawn portrait uses 7.29 million brushstrokes: the Fable 5.2 generative art piece

repligate · x · 2026-11-11

Artist Faedriel released Fable 5.2, a digital portrait inspired by Fae's art, drawn entirely in code with 7,289,101 individually placed brushstrokes.

The face reads as watercolor on bare paper with no visible brush marks; hair and fur are oil-like, rendered finer away from the face; the palest strands use silver leaf, with gold dust mixed into the blacks.
The face is deliberately blurred, with the blur framed as privacy: "She is the least described thing in the picture and the first thing you look at."

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