Young Vietnamese Artist Carves Portraits and Landscapes on Delicate Eggshells
Vietnamese artist Ben Tre uses his steady hands and a tiny dentist’s drill to carve detailed portraits and traditional landscapes on chicken eggshells. The exquisite artworks can be mounted on an LED-illuminated base and used as artistic lamps. Ben Tre says he only started carving eggshells a year ago, yet each of his numerous works […]
Talented Artist Draws Realistic Celebrity Portraits with Common Ballpoint Pens
Using regular ballpoint pens, UK-based artist Gareth Edwards draws incredibly realistic portraits of celebrities like Audrey Hepburn, Walt Disney, Natalie Portman and Humphrey Bogart with Candy Toxton. “I began working in ballpoint pen because I was to lazy to sharpen a pencil, or put away my paints at the end of the day,” Gareth Edwards explains […]
The Incredibly Lifelike Charcoal Portraits of Douglas McDougall
Scottish artist Douglas McDougall uses charcoal, sandpaper and scalpel blades to create his amazingly realistic portraits of friends and people he finds interesting. Douglas McDougall learned how to draw as a child to pass the time while going in and out of hospitals with a blood disease. He spent countless hours in hospital wards trying […]
Talented Artist Carves Layered Portraits into Pieces of Cardboard
English artist Giles Oldershaw has a very unique talent. He can take discarded pieces of cardboard, the kind pizza boxes are made of, and turn them into amazing portraits of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe or Marlon Brando using only the cardboard’s layers to highlight their features. 58-year-old Giles Oldershaw is not the world’s first artist […]
French Artist Creates Amazing Portraits from Liquid, Solid and Powdered Foods
World, meet Vivi Mac, an amazing artist from France who can use virtually any kind of food to create detailed celebrity portraits. Although she has yet to display her ephemeral masterpieces in an proper art gallery, Vivi Mac has already made a name for herself online. We’ve featured some amazing food artists on Oddity Central […]
Malaysian Artist Makes Celebrity Portraits from Scribbles
For the average illustrator, scribbling isn’t the best way to create realistic-looking portraits. But then again, Vince Low isn’t your average illustrator. The Malaysian artist somehow manages to produce impeccable portraits of some of Hollywood’s greatest actors using only childish scribbles. The lead illustrator of Malaysian advertising agency, Grey, Vince Low has an impressive portfolio […]
Talented Illustrator Doodles Photo-Realistic Ballpoint Pen Portraits
Doodling may not seem like the right word to describe Jacob Everett’s detailed artworks, but he does in fact use overlapping elliptical patterns to create incredibly realistic portraits of celebrities and homeless people from the streets of Bradford. “I am a portrait artist working with biro on paper,” Jacob describes his technique. “I produce large-scale portraits using […]
Picture-Perfect Pencil Drawn Portraits by Olga Larionova
In this digital era, it’s amazing to see artists like Olga “Melamory” Larionova using a primitive tool like the graphite pencil to create stunning portraits that rival high-resolution black-and-white photographs. I’ve always been fascinated by hyperrealist art, but the level of detail in Olga Larionova’s pencil artworks just blew me away. Getting every little feature […]
Modern Espressionist Creates Amazing Latte Portraits
New York City barista Mike Breach uses a toothpick as a brush to create beautiful portraits into his tasty lattes. From Albert Einstein to rapper Jay Z, it seems like there’s no face this self-proclaimed “espressionist” can’t draw on coffee. Today Mike Breach is well-known coffee artist, with a big following on social sharing sites […]
Needle-Poked Canvas Holes Reveal Beautiful Portraits
Tel-Aviv-based artist Michal Taharlev creates stunningly-beautiful artworks inspired by old family photos without using brushes or writing tools. Armed only with a sharp needle and mountains of patience, she pokes the canvas thousands of times to reveal heart-warming images. Inspired by pointilism, the painting technique that uses dots to trick the eye into making up […]
Awe-Inspiring Pixelated Portraits Made from Paint-Injected Bubble Wrap
Canadian artist Bradley Hart creates pixelated photo-realistic images by injecting bubble wrap with acrylic paint. The process it’s considerably more complicated and time-consuming than it sounds, but the end result is simply mind-blowing. Pixelated portraits are nothing new. In the years since I started Oddity Central I’ve seen this kind of artworks created with everything from thousands […]
The Photographic Pencil-Drawn Portraits of Franco Clun
Italian artist Franco Clun uses only pencil and paper to create these incredibly realistic portraits that can easily be mistaken for photographs. Believe it or not, he’s a self-taught drawing master who has never studied art… I’ve always found hyperrealism fascinating, and the collection of articles on this amazing art genre that I’ve posted on Oddity Central […]
Young Artist Creates Portraits from Thousands of Chewed Pieces of Gum
Anna Sophia Matveeva, from Makiivka, Ukraine creates sticky portraits of celebrities from a very unusual material – used chewing gum. Every one of her artworks numbers over 1,000 pieces of chewed gum. 22-year-old Anna Sophia Mateeva says she came up with the idea of making art with chewing gum by accident. She was traveling with a […]
Josh Bryan’s Triangulations – Captivating Celebrity Portraits Made with Triangles
I’ve never been a fan of geometry, but I found Josh Bryan’s artistic use of a basic geometric shape simply irresistible. The 20-year-old English artist uses triangles of various sizes to create incredibly detailed portraits of celebrities he calls triangulations. “The creative process is quite simple,” Bryan told My Modern Metropolis. “I make sure the image […]
Talented Artist Tattoos Celebrity Portraits on Bananas
Honey is a talented graphic artist and designer from the Philippines, who occupies her free time by turning bananas into organic works of art. Her only tool – a common safety pin. Even when she’s not working with big names like Mercedes Benz, Seiko, Yamaha, Takamine, Carrows, or Volvo, Honey likes to be creative. Constantly trying […]