Dec 03, 2013 03:49 PM EST
Morgan Freeman Portrait: Painting of Actor Made By Finger-Painting App (VIDEO)

No, its not a photograph of Morgan Freeman, its actually a painting. A portrait of the actor has gone viral online, after it was created on an iPad using a finger-painting app.

According to ABC News, Kyle Lambert, an artist from the U.K., spent 200 hours, in a month's time, creating the actor's likeness using only one finger. Lambert also used an app called Procreate, which is considered "the most powerful and intuitive digital illustration app available for iPad."

"It captures every brush stroke automatically and you can export it to the camera roll," Lambert said. "It has the best canvas size and video export. It's the most like Photoshop."

The 26-year-old said he was inspired to try the portrait after learning of the program's "4k canvas support on Apple's new 64-bit line of iPads," according to a post on IceFlowStudios.

The three-minute video, which has now been viewed over 1.3 million times in just 24 hours, captures the artist's 285,000 brush strokes. Lambert first amazed fans when he painted Beyonce in 2010, which took him eight hours to complete.

In an interview with graphics and animation website CGArena, Lambert said a lot of patience and attention to details was need to create the "hyperrealistic images."

"There is no real 'secret' to painting realistic images," he said. "It is all about going that extra mile and spending time on each and every area of your image. ... The most important thing is to spend more time looking at what you are painting and less time presuming."

Lambert said he hopes that videos will inspire other artist to embrace digital art. Lambert's other paintings include Rihanna, Megan Fox, Madonna, David Beckham, Will Smith, and President Barack Obama.

In October, several iPad paintings by British artist David Hockney were placed on display in San Francisco's de Young Museum.

"Exhibiting iPad images by a prominent artist in a significant museum gives the medium a boost, said art historians, helping digital artwork gain legitimacy in the notoriously snobby art world where computer tablet art shows are rare and prices typically lower than comparable watercolors or oils," The Associated Press wrote of the show.

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