Gallery: Now You Can Color Rafael Araujo's Wildly Complex Drawings Yourself
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Rafael Araujo turned his mathematical illustrations into a coloring book.
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The Venezuelan artist has been making hyper exacting drawings for decades.
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His work is based on geometries.
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All of his drawings are done by hand with a pencil, compass and protractor.
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Araujo adapted some of his original drawings for the book.
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It can take Araujo up to 100 hours to finish a single illustration.
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Some of the drawings were made specifically for the book.
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One of Araujo's colored illustrations.
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An early work from Araujo.
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Many of his drawings begin with a scaffolding box.
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This helps him make his measurements.
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He leaves the scaffolding lines in the drawings to show is process.
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