Artist draws amazing iPad portrait of Morgan Freeman

26-year-old artist Kyle Lambert had better insure his fingertips.

Because if his skills on the iPad are anything to go by, they could be worth a few quid.

Cheshire-based Lambert has uploaded a video of him using the iPad art app Procreate to paint an amazingly photo-realistic picture of the actor Morgan Freeman.

From the detail of his badgery beard to the glint in his gold earring, the trained oil painter has transferred his skills impressively into the digital medium, using some brush strokes that are a single pixel wide.

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Lambert used a portrait picture taken by photographer Scott Gries, but if anything, the definition looks higher and more detailed on Lambert's 'painted' version than the softer focus on Gries' picture.

The time-lapse video shows Lambert at work, from the broad strokes to the painstakingly small ones, all done over 200 hours and with 285,000 brush strokes.

He said that he got the inspiration to paint Freeman after seeing the film 'Oblivion', which stars Freeman alongside Tom Cruise.

“I've found with past videos people are more engaged when the subject is familiar to them,” he told 9News.

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“I think I must have been watching the movie Oblivion when the idea of Morgan Freeman came to mind.”

But some critics have questioned the work, accusing him of importing the photo, and then then adding the strokes afterwards and playing it backwards, such is the realistic look achieved.

He's has also painted similar portraits of the likes of Beyonce, Rihanna and Barack Obama, though they are not quite of the calibre of this latest work.