The Photo-Realistic Charcoal-Drawn Portraits of Dylan Eakin
Looking at the expertly-drawn charcoal and graphite portraits of Dylan Eakin, you’d think he has a lifetime of experience and many years of art school under his belt, but the truth is he’s a self-taught artist and he’s only been at it for three years. Staring at most of Eakin’s black-and-white portraits, I often found […]
Avian Latte Art – Hobbyist Barista Draws Portraits of Birds on Cups of Coffee
Ku-san, a hobbyist barista and bird lover from Japan, meticulously draws detailed portraits of various bird species on cups of coffee, using colored milk foam. The amateur latte artist was inspired to create drinkable bird portraits on coffee by her own pet, Sakura, a pink Bourke’s parrot. She started posting the fruits of her painstaking labor on […]
Ambidextrous Artist Draws Photo-Realistic Pencil Portraits with Both Hands at the Same Time
Drawing hyperrealistic color portraits with your dominant hand is difficult enough, but try simultaneously drawing two separate portraits with both hands. It sounds almost impossible, which makes Dutch artist Rjacenna’s skill that much more impressive. Rajacenna first made news headlines in 2010, as a child prodigy able to create incredibly realistic portraits of celebrities with […]
Artist Creates Portraits of Pop Icons with Thousands of Spray-Painted Tiny People
Seen from afar, Craig Alan’s celebrity portraits seem made out of thousands of expertly placed paint dots, but as you draw nearer, you notice that those dots are actually tiny detailed human figures. Craig Alan’s “Populous” series was inspired by a bird’s eye view from his mother’s 6th story condo, in Orange Beach, Alabama. He […]
Japanese Artist Creates Hyper-Realistic, 3D Portraits of Cats Out of Felted Wool
If you’re looking for someone to make a realistic, three-dimensional portrait of your pet cat using felt wool, you’ll have a tough time finding someone better than Wakuneco. Just have a look at what she can do with a needle and wool thread. Looking at some of the feline portraits created by the talented Japanese […]
Tattoo Artist Creates Stunning Portraits Entirely Out of ASCII Code
Invented in the 1970s, ASCII art is still popular in online chats, on forums and websites, but one insanely talented tattoo artist is able to ink stunning portraits using only the 95 characters characters from the 1963 American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) standard on his clients’ skin. 31-year-old Andreas Vrontis has always been fascinated […]
Artist Creates Amazing ‘Web Portraits’ Using a Single Sewing Thread
Slovenian artist Sašo Krajnc creates incredibly detailed portraits by tightly winding a single sewing thread on a circular wooden frame to create overlapping straight lines. That’s actually the most impressive thing about Sašo Krajnc, that he’s able to create such detailed facial features, like the curvatures of the eyes and lips, using only straight lines. He starts […]
Artist Creates Detailed Portraits Entirely Out of Handwritten Text
California-based artist Phil Vance spends hundreds of hours creating typography portraits of historical icons entirely out of handwritten words and phrases. From afar, Phil Vance’s typography portraits look like expertly drawn artworks, but as you draw nearer to them, you start to see that every feature is actually made up of handwritten text. Once you […]
The Photo-Like Painted Portraits of Yasutomo Oka
These lovely portraits may look like high-definition artistic photographs, or even the product of CGI, but they are actually oil paintings created by Japanese artist Yasutomo Oka At just 34-years-old, Yasutomo Oka is quite obviously already a master when it comes to hyperrealistic paintings. The artist, who hails from Komaki, in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture, spends […]
Artist Spends Hundreds of Hours Creating Amazing Portraits with Millions of Ink Dots
David Bayo, a self-taught artist from Strasbourg, France, spends hundreds of hours carefully placing tiny ink dots on a white canvas to create incredibly detailed portraits. To truly appreciate David Bayo’s skills, you need to lean in and examine his amazing artworks up close. Only when you see the millions of dots expertly placed by […]
Indian Artist Creates Stunningly-Detailed Portraits Using Human Hair
Hair is not the easiest art medium to work with, especially when you’re trying to create detailed portraits of people and animals, but young Indian artist Midhun R.R. had developed a technique that allows him to manipulate thousands of short hair strands into impressive artworks. All Midhun needs to create his art is some hair, […]
Serbian Barber Trims Celebrity Portraits on Customers’ Heads
Mario Hvala, a barber from Novi Sad, Serbia, recently made international headlines for trimming a detailed portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the back of a client’s head, but that was only his most recent achievement. He has been creating “hair tattoos” for the last eight years, and there’s nothing he can’t trim […]
Painting with Wool – Artist Creates Shockingly Realistic Felt Portraits
Creating hyper-realistic animal portraits with a paintbrush or pencil is a difficult skill that only the world’s most talented artists can master, but doing it with just a needle and wool felt sounds downright impossible. That only makes “wool painter” Dani Ives’ work that much more impressive. Looking at Dani Ives’ impressive portfolio of “wool […]
Artist Creates Incredibly Detailed Celebrity Portraits with Salt, Coffee and Baking Soda
Allan Pachino Wallace is a young, talented artist from Nassau, the Bahamas, who recently rose to internet fame with a series of amazing celebrity portraits made only with salt, coffee or baking soda. Wallace works with all kinds of mediums, from common oil paint and spray paint, to tree leaves and cereal. A quick look […]
The Lifelike Digital Portraits of Irakli Nadar
28-year-old Irakli Nadar is considered one of the most talented digital artists of our time. Using only digital painting tools, he is able to create photo-like portraits from scratch. His works are so good that many in the digital art world accuse him of simply applying various filters to digital photographs and passing them off as […]