The Ultra-Realistic Pencil Portraits of Sheila Giovanni
Brazilian artist Sheila R. Giovanni specializes in incredibly detailed, hand-drawn portraits of celebrities, some of which cannot be told apart from high-resolution photographs. Over the last twelve years, we’ve featured some talented portrait artists on Oddity Central, but Sheila R. Giovanni is definitely one of the best. Using only colored pencils, she is able to […]
French Artist Turns Urban Spaces Into Mind-Boggling Graffiti Optical Illusions
Armed with a simply can of spray paint, French artist SCAF uses his imagination and mountains of talent to turn abandoned urban spaces into three-dimensional graffiti masterpieces. Looking at SCAF’s expertly spray-painted trompe l’oeil graffiti artworks, it’s hard to believe that he is a completely self-taught street artist. He never studied art and started experimenting […]
Insanely-Talented Artist Hand-Paints Picture-Perfect Portraits of Women
German artist Philipp Weber specializes in hyper-realistic paintings of female models which can hardly be distinguished from high-resolution photographs at first glance. Born in 1974 in Rostock, Germany, Philipp Weber showed an inclination for the arts when he was only three-years-old, and continued to impress both his parents and his art teachers as he grew. […]
Self-Taught Makeup Artist Uses Her Own Face as Canvas for Mesmerizing Optical Illusions
Fueled by her passion for makeup, a 21-year-old self-taught makeup artist from Vietnam has become a master at using her own face to create all sorts of crazy optical illusions. Hoa Trang has always been fascinated by makeup, but she could never afford to take professional classes, so she decided to teach herself, by watching […]
Pastry Designer Creates the Most Mesmerizing Pies
Ever heard of a pie too pretty to eat? Me neither, but then I discovered pastry designer Karin Pfeiff-Boschek and her intricately decorated creations, and I started to have a whole new appreciation for pies as works of art. Anyone would be lucky to call Karin Pfeiff-Boschek their friend. That’s because the German-born pie master […]
Talented Tattoo Artist Specializes in ‘Double Vision’ Tattoos
Looking at the tattoos of Mexican artist Yatzil Elizalde, your first reflex is to squint, thinking there is something wrong with your eyes, but it’s just the artist’s unique ‘blurry effect’ style playing tricks on you. Coming up with a unique tattooing style usually requires a lot of experience and confidence, so it was really […]
Self-Taught Artist Creates Stunningly Realistic Sand Sculptures
Andoni Bastarrika, a multi-media artist from Spain’s Basque Country, has been getting a lot of attention for his ultra-realistic animal sculptures made almost exclusively with sand. Bastarrika has been entertaining beach-goers in his native Basque Country region for almost a decade now, but he only recently garnered international acclaim, after a photo of one of […]
Japanese Mom Specializes in Deliciously Cute Fried Egg Art
A Japanese mother-of-three who took up food art as a way to entertain her daughters struck gold on Instagram after specializing in cute fried egg artworks. Etoni Mama is often described as a master of kyaraben (or Charaben), the Japanese art of arranging various foods as elaborate, eye-catching designs, but it was her fried egg […]
Chicago’s Pothole Artist Turns Road Hazards Into Works of Art
Chicago-based Jim Bachor is one of those rare street artists’ whose works can be classified as both art pieces and a public service. The man specializes in fixing up pot holes by filling them up with his beautiful and durable mosaics. In fact Jim’s career as a pothole artist began with a trip to the […]
Living, Human Artwork Sits on Display in Closed Art Museum for Six Hours Every Day
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania, Australia, isn’t the only museum to have shut its gates because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but it stands out because of its unique, human artwork. As hard as it is to believe, Tim is both a man and an artwork. A former tattoo parlor owner […]
The Incredible Body-Painting Masterpieces of Johannes Stötter
Johannes Stötter is a world-renowned body-painter whose artworks are so incredibly realistic most people would never guess they are actually made up of people contorted in just the right positions and photographed from the right angle. We originally featured the magical body-paintings of Johannes Stötter back in 2014, when he made international news headlines with […]
The Scribbled Portraits of Liz Y Ahmet
Liz Y Ahmet is a self-taught artist who uses a seemingly messy technique to create incredibly detailed and expressive female portraits. A ‘scribble’ is usually defined as “a piece of writing or a drawing that is done quickly or carelessly”, but that certainly doesn’t apply to Liz Y Ahmet’s work. While her style certainly looks […]
Japanese Mom Creates the Most Adorable Anime-Themed Bento Boxes
A Japanese mother-of-two has been getting a lot of attention on social media sites like Instagram and Pinterest for her incredibly detailed and colorful anime-themed bento boxes. If you’re even a little familiar with Japanese culture, you probably know about “kawaii”, the people’s affinity for all things cute, and the attention to detail present in […]
Talented Illustrator Creates Mind-Blowing 3D Drawing of a Squid
Be honest, looking at this hyper-realistic drawing of a squid, could you ever tell it apart from a real-life cephalopod? Most people couldn’t which is why Japanese illustrator Yuuki Tokuda’s artwork has been getting so much attention on social media. Yuuki Tokuda is a talented illustrator whose cartoony characters have been immortalized in books and […]
Art Teacher Spends 3 Months Drawing Chalk Version of Chinese Masterpiece on Eight Chalkboards
A young art teacher from China’s Shanxi Province was recently praised online for spending three months working on a detailed chalk rendition of a traditional masterpiece. When Zhao Wenrui, an art teacher in Fanzhi County, decided to draw a chalk version of Along the River during the Qingming Festival he just wanted to do something interesting […]