The Pencil Portraits of Kei Meguro Look Like Black-and-White Photographs
Japanese artist Kei Meguro is known for her incredibly detailed portraits created mainly with pencil and graphite, which blur the line between drawing and black-and-white photography. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Kei discovered the joy of drawing at an early age, and she was encouraged to explore her talent by her family. In 2006, she entered the […]
The Three-Dimensional LEGO Portraits of Gerardo Pontiérr
Gerardo Pontiérr is an innovative Mexican artist who uses thousands of individual LEGO bricks to create incredible works of art, including detailed human portraits. Gerardo Pontiérr has been using LEGO for as long as he can remember. He first started playing with the colorful plastic bricks when he was only two years old and developed […]
The Cracked Glass Portraits of Niall Shukla
Niall Shukla is a talented self-taught artist who specializes in cracking detailed portraits into laminated glass canvases by meticulously striking them with a hammer. Hitting panels of glass with a hammer to create something beautiful sounds counterintuitive, but that’s exactly what makes Niall Shukla’s cracked glass art so fascinating. Using a variety of metal hammers […]
The Ultra-Realistic Graffiti Portraits of Jorit Agoch
Jorit Agoch is a famous Italian graffiti artist known for his clean style and large-scale, ultra-realistic portrait murals painted on the side of buildings all over the world. Over the last 16 years, we’ve featured many impressive graffiti artworks, like the mind-boggling optical illusions of Portuguese street artist Odeith, the ingenious portraits of Fabio Gomes […]
The Photorealistic Ballpoint Pen Portraits of Patrick Onyekwere
Talented Nigerian artist Patrick Onyekwere creates stunning, emotionally-charged portraits that look more like photographs than ballpoint pen drawings. Living and working in Lagos, Nigeria, Patrick Onyekwere started drawing professionally in 2015 and has since become one of the world’s leading ballpoint pen drawing masters. A fan of Kelvin Okafor, himself an accomplished hyperrealist artist specializing […]
The Cracked Glass Portraits of Natnael Mekuria
Ethiopian-born artist Natnael Mekuria specializes in stunning celebrity portraits cracked into panes of glass using only a chisel and hammer. 22-year-old Natnael Mekuria discovered cracked glass art during the Covid-19 pandemic, but mastering the unusual art form took a lot of time and patience. In the beginning, he lacked the hand control necessary to keep […]
The Photo-Like Fire-Painted Portraits of Alex Peter Idoko
Nigerian artist Alex Peter Idoko uses fire, razorblades and sandpaper to create stunningly-realistic portraits that look more like sepia-toned photos. Pyrography, or painting with fire, is an intriguing art form that involves the decoration of a wooden canvas with burn marks resulting from a controlled flame or heated instrument, like a poker. It’s a less […]
Self-Taught Artist Paints Photo-Like Hyperrealistic Portraits
Emel Espiritu, a young, talented artist from the Philippines, has been drawing a lot of attention because of his hyperrealistic portraits which are almost indistinguishable from photographs. As a young boy, Emel Espiritu loved to draw, so his father taught him the basics. However, as he grew up, his interest for drawing only grew, but […]
19-Year-Old Artist Creates Insanely Realistic Pencil Portraits
Mayor Olajide, a 19-year-old artist from Nigeria, has taken the hyperrealistic art world by storm with his photo-realistic charcoal pencil portraits. We’ve featured some really gifted hyperrealism artists on Oddity Central over the years, true masters like Anna Halldin Maule, Hirothropologie, or Dru Blair, but it’s rare to see that kind of talent in someone […]
Self-Taught Artist Uses Scribbling to Create Detailed Celebrity Portraits
Arsenic Junior, a talented self-taught artist from the Philippines, creates stunningly-detailed portraits of celebrities and popular fictional characters by scribbling on pieces of paper. Scribbling isn’t usually associated with high-quality art, but artists like Arsenic Jr. prove that it can be a viable technique, even when working on detailed portraiture. Even though it might seem […]
Talented Artist Burns Hyperrealistic Portraits onto Pieces of Wood
Ivan Djuric, a talented pyrographer from Serbia, creates incredibly detailed portraits of celebrities by burning them onto pieces of wood using a special tool. Pyrography, as an art form, can be traced back thousands of years, with evidence of its early existence discovered in countries like China, Egypt and the ancient Roman Empire, but modern […]
The Insanely Realistic Airbrushed Portraits of Dru Blair
When it comes to hyperrealistic airbrushed portraits, you’ll have a tough time finding better works than those of South Carolina artist Dru Blair. His amazing paintings are virtually indistinguishable from photos. Dru Blair first picked up the airbrush while working on his Master’s degree at the University of South Carolina, and spent several summers after […]
Bento Artist Creates Insanely Detailed Edible Portraits
A talented bento artist from Hiroshima, Japan, has been turning a lot of heads online with their incredibly detailed edible black portraits over a white rice background. Nori bento is the most common forms of the portable Japanese snack, but one Japanese food artist has managed to turn the simplicity of the classic meal into […]
Food Artist Creates Edible Portraits of Popular Anime Characters
Kaisefu Mudazono is a self-taught food artist who uses all sorts of ingredients, from dried seaweed and pickled vegetables, to ham and rice, to create the most amazing edible artworks. When it comes to food art, it’s hard to find something more adorable, and at the same time impressive, than kyaraben (or Charaben), the Japanese […]
Talented Chef Makes Pancake Portraits Inspired by Pop Culture Icons and Anime Characters
Keisuke Inagaki, who describes himself as the “otaku chef” of La Ricetta Restaurant in Zama, Japan, has combined his two biggest passions – cooking and anime – to create his own style of pancake art. The 51-year-old Japanese chef started making cute pancakes in 2011, as a way of lifting the spirits of kids in […]