This Company Creates Awesome Portraits of Your Pets as Lords
If you’re looking to have some goofy fun while quarantined in your own home, how about investing in a high quality portrait of your pet as a pompous royal? Enter Crown & Paw, a company dedicated to helping pet owners honor their bundles of joy by creating hilarious digital portraits of them as generals, princes, […]
Japanese Artist Paints Simple Stones as Charming Figurines
Akie Nakata describes herself as a “stone artist”, but there is more to her craft than simply painting river stones into familiar animal shapes. Every one of her pieces goes through a complex process that begins with choosing the right stone and continues with bringing out the life in it. The Japanese artist, who goes […]
The Incredible Ballpoint Pen Drawings of Samuel Silva
We originally featured the amazing ballpoint pen drawings of Portuguese artist Samuel Silva back in 2021, but he has been buys over the last eight years, and I though we’d take a look at what he’s been up to. Looking at some of Silva’s incredibly realistic artworks, it’s clear why many consider him the no. […]
“String Art Guy” Creates Incredible Portraits with Just Strings and Nails
London-based Ben Koracevic is a young, self-taught string artist determined to push the boundaries of the art form. Looking at the insanely detailed portraits he is able to create using only black string and expertly placed nails, I’d say he has already succeeded. Using thousands of nails carefully positioned on a blank white canvas, and […]
Company Makes Sword-Shaped Everyday Items to Make You Feel Like a Hero
If you’ve ever dreamed of wielding your favorite sword or mage staff from the video game that most impacted your childhood, there’s a company that can make that dream a reality, sort of… Let’s face it, taking a life size replica of Cloud’s Buster Sword from Final Fantasy VII to work with you isn’t very […]
The Exquisite Fondant Sculptures of China’s Sugar King
When it comes to fondant modelling, there are few food artists in the world who can even hold a candle to Zhou Yi, China’s famous “Sugar King”. His amazing sculptures are so incredibly detailed that even though they’re edible, they definitely qualify as ‘too good to eat’. The first time we featured Sugar King on […]
The Photo-Like Ballpoint Pen Portraits of Samia Al Homsi Dagher
Samia Al Homsi Dagher, a software engineer and illustrator from Lebanon, has made a name for herself by creating stunningly realistic ballpoint pen portraits. From celebrities to commission portraits of everyday people, this talented artist’s artworks are sometimes hard to tell apart from photographs. Born in 1987, the Tripoli-based artist started drawing when she was […]
Japan’s Yearly Truck Gardening Contest Takes Landscaping to a Whole New Level
Every year, landscaping experts from all over Japan get together to compete in the Key Truck Garden Contest, a unique event that has participants turning the beds of mini trucks into the most impressive miniature gardens they can.l The results are nothing short of awe-inspiring. The Kei Truck, or “kei-tora”, is a small yet practical […]
Artist Uses Black Paper and White&Grey Pencils to Create Portraits of Women Cast in Light
Looking at English artist Zulf’s portraits, you get the sense that they’re really simplistic in nature. They’re not the most detailed, heck they sometimes just outline a woman’s face, but that’s just what makes them special. We’ve seen some truly mind-blowingly realistic portraits in the past, such as the masterpieces of Alena Litvin or those […]
Russian Granny Decorates Her House With Plastic Bottle Cap Mosaics
Nina Krinitsina, a pensioner from the Russian village of Makarye, around 850 kilometers east of Moscow, has been decorating her modest house with colorful bottle cap mosaics for the last seven years. The amateur artist, who currently has over thirty plastic mosaics nailed to the walls of her house – some numbering over 1,000 bottle […]
Ambidextrous Artist Creates Detailed Drawings by Using Both Hands at the Same Time
Drawing something even close to resemblig art is hard enough to do with one hand, but doing it with both hands, at the same time, sounds downright impossible. That only makes this amateur artist’s skills that much more impressive. Colin Darke, a lawyer and amateur artist from Detroit, has been getting a lot of attention […]
The Intricate Avocado Carvings of Daniele Barresi
Daniele Barresi is a young food sculptor who specializes in turning avocados into veritable works of art that literally look too good to eat. A native of Bagnara Calabra, Italy, Daniele Barresi has been carving ever since he was just seven years old. He has also experimented with a wide range of mediums over the […]
Food Illusionist Creates the Most Unappetizing-Looking Desserts
Chef Ben Churchill calls himself a “food illusionist” and while the title may seem a bit pompous, it’s actually quite fitting, as Churchill specializes in disguising delicious desserts as the most unappetizing things imaginable. Most chefs try their best to make desserts look as yummy as possible, but Ben Churchill does the exact opposite. He […]
The Glowing Pencil Drawings of Enrique Bernal
The pencil drawings of Enrique ‘Kike’ Bernal would look good enough with that mysterious, colorful glow, but there is no denying that the added effect makes them that much more intriguing. The young Mexican artist usually relies on mechanical pencils and pens to create his cartoonish drawings, but he recently incorporated a new, digital tool […]
Retired Carpenter Goes Viral for His Whimsical Yet Functional Furniture
Warped or cracked furniture isn’t ideal, unless it’s that way by design, which is exactly what makes the whimsical cabinets of Henk Verhoeff so special. The retired carpenter from Auckland, in New Zealand, went viral the other day, after his daughter started posting pictures of his amazing wooden cabinets on Facebook. At first glance, they […]