Meticulously Detailed Drawings Made with Graphite and Chalk
Paul Cadden is a Scottish-born hyperrealist artist who creates painfully realistic artworks using only graphite and chalk. I’ve posted some pretty realistic drawings in the past, like Rajacenna’s detailed celebrity portraits, Juan Francisco Casas’ photo-like ballpoint pen drawings, or Paul Lung’s pencil artworks, but the pieces you’re about to see are on a whole other […]
Jason Sho Green’s Mind-Blowing Doodle Portraits
Jason Sho Green uses a simple ball-point pen to create incredibly intricate portraits that are actually made of other smaller drawings. Whether we’re good at it or not, we all like to doodle, but American artist Jason Sho Green has taken the pastime to a whole new level with his amazing doodle portraits that look like […]
Would You Believe These Were DRAWN by an 18-Year-Old?
Rajacenna is an 18-year-old self-taught artist from the Netherlands who draws the most realistic portraits I have ever seen, using only pencils. I’m a big fan of realistic drawings, and I’ve previously featured amazing works like the pencil drawings of Paul Lung, the ballpoint pen portraits of Juan Francisco Casas, or Cristina Penescu’s detailed scratchboard masterpieces, […]
Intricate Paper Carpet Drawn Only with Bic Pencils
Paris-based artist Jonathan Brechignac has created an awe-inspiring Muslim prayer carpet made of paper and drawn only with black Bic pens. ”I never really knew what I wanted from the beginning. Finding inspiration and learning through trials was key to the project,” Jonathan says about his amazing project. Made to fit the size of an […]
The Food Illustrator – Man Draws His Every Meal for an Entire Year
English graphic designer, David Meldrum, also known as The Food Illustrator, has kept a record of everything he has eaten and drunk for an entire year, by creating 365 illustrations. Wanting to create a historical record not only of what he ate, but of today’s food related trends, packaging, design and typography, David Meldrum began […]
Artist Spends 10 Months Working on a Drawing
Detailed artworks take a lot of time to complete, but American artist Joe Fenton took it to a whole new level when he decided to dedicate 10 months of his life to a single drawing. Solitude is indeed one of the most intricate drawings I have ever seen, and knowing it’s all been done with […]
Tony Orrico – The Human Spirograph
American artist Tony Orrico uses his entire body as an instrument to create massive artworks that are both highly precise and organic, at the same time. Orrico manages to blend his background in dance and choreography with a passion for drawing in a unique process that starts off with dance-like movements and ends with an abstract illustration. […]
Incredible Etch-A-Sketch Artworks by George Vlosich
Placed in the hands of a great artist, even a children’s toy like Etch-a-Sketch can become a powerful tool able to deliver mind-blowing masterpieces. Case in point – George Vlosich George has been drawing since he was two years old, but it wasn’t until he got his hands on an old Etch-a-Sketch, in 1989, that […]
Artist Draws Portraits Using the Ashes of Her Subjects
Raven J. Collins thinks she may be the only artist in the world to brush the raw ashes of a deceased person onto a pencil portrait. Using ashes as a medium is a growing trend in the artwork, but while some are mixing it with paint to create abstract works, moulding them into bizarre sculptures, […]
Creepy Post-It Art by John Kenn Mortensen
John Kenn Mortensen is a Danish artist who uses the common post-it as canvas for his mysterious and scary artworks. While other modern artists search for ever larger canvases to express their artistic talents, Mortensen lets his imagination runs wild on the tiny sheets of paper we know as post-its. Most of us use them […]
Unbelievable Pen and Ink Art by Sagaki Keita
Japanese artist Sagaki Keita recreates famous artworks out of thousands of whimsical characters he created using his own imagination. Looking at the creations of this talented 27-year-old artist, I can’t help but remember my childhood days when I would doodle all kinds of drawings on the back of every notebook I had. But while my […]
The Giant Sand Drawings of Jamie Wardley
Sand sculptor Jamie Wardley transforms beaches into canvases for his art, as he tries to send important messages through his giant sand drawings. Jamie first came into contact with the world of sand sculpting, as a young boy, on a trip in Norway. He met a sand sculptor who managed to turn two sand blocks […]
Man Decorates His Entire Basement Using a Sharpie and a Marker
53-year-old Says Kratzer managed to turn his boring cream-painted basement into an inhabitable masterpiece, by using his trusty sharpie and a magic marker. Mister Kratzer has always been fascinated by Impressionist art, and by the time he reached 30, he knew he wanted his house to be decorated with it. Since he couldn’t afford to […]
The Amazing Pencil Art of Paul Lung
Lovely black and white photos, wouldn’t you say? Well, can you believe these were actually done completely by pencil? Paul Lung, a 38-year-old artist, from Hong Kong, needs only an 0.5 mm technical graphite pencil and sheets of A2 paper to create some of the most unbelievable works of art. Paul has loved to draw […]
Doug Landis’ Mouth Art
True talent and artistic calling can’t be contained even by the most severe physical handicaps, and Doug Landis is the perfect example. Using only his mouth, Doug creates some really extraordinary artworks. Doug Landis was paralyzed from the neck down, after an awful accident, during a high-school wrestling match. The before over-active kid, too busy […]