The Pencil Portraits of Kei Meguro Look Like Black-and-White Photographs
Japanese artist Kei Meguro is known for her incredibly detailed portraits created mainly with pencil and graphite, which blur the line between drawing and black-and-white photography. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Kei discovered the joy of drawing at an early age, and she was encouraged to explore her talent by her family. In 2006, she entered the […]
The Photorealistic Ballpoint Pen Portraits of Patrick Onyekwere
Talented Nigerian artist Patrick Onyekwere creates stunning, emotionally-charged portraits that look more like photographs than ballpoint pen drawings. Living and working in Lagos, Nigeria, Patrick Onyekwere started drawing professionally in 2015 and has since become one of the world’s leading ballpoint pen drawing masters. A fan of Kelvin Okafor, himself an accomplished hyperrealist artist specializing […]
18-Year-Old Artist Draws the Most Amazing Optical Illusions
Japanese artist 慧人 (Keito) has been drawing a lot of attention on social media with his incredibly realistic colored pencil drawings which are almost impossible to tell apart from actual objects. Trompe l’oeil (literally “cheat the eye” in French) is a centuries-old painting and drawing technique design to do just what its name implies. Obviously, […]
The Magical Pencil Drawings of Alessandro Paglia
When it comes ultra-realistic pencil drawings, you’d have a hard time finding someone better than Italian industrial designer turned artist Alessandro Paglia. Having studying design at Politecnico di Milano, Alessandro Paglia managed to secure a job at 3M, working its first international Design Center for five years. He then moved to a light design company […]
The Photo-Like Pencil Drawings of Emanuele Dascanio
Emanuele Dascanio is a super-talented artist whose graphite and charcoal pencil drawings look like high-resolution black-and-white photographs. Looking at some of 37-year-old Emanuele Dascanio’s masterpieces, it’s easy to see why he sometimes takes hundreds of hours to complete a single piece. He often works 12 to 14 hours a day, often sacrificing his private life […]
Artist Draws Insanely Detailed City Landscapes Entirely from Memory
Dutch artist Stefan Bleekrode has been blessed with the most amazing talent – he can draw amazingly detailed sketches of cities he has visited, using only his razor-sharp memory as reference . The 28-year-old has used his superhuman power of recollection to create ‘Cityscapes’, a series of sketches of some of the world’s most famous cities, […]
Artist Turns Dirty Trucks into Mobile Artworks Using Only One Finger
Multi-talented British artist Ben Long has been making exquisite illustrations on the dusty rear doors of commercial trucks since the early 2000s. The 35-year-old uses only one finger to ‘scribe into the layer of dirt built-up from exhaust emissions’. He calls the project ‘The Great Travelling Art Exhibition’, which is an ongoing series of his […]
The Incredibly Realistic Colored Pencil Drawings of Adolfo Fernandez Rodriguez
Although he started drawing with pencils after the age of 40, Adolfo Fernandez Rodriguez – a Madrid based artist, quickly mastered this technique. Using only colored pencils, he now draws life-like characters, bubbles, reflections and ripples of water that often get confused with hyper-realistic oil paintings and even photographs. His mind-blowing creations include incredibly realistic […]
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 […]
The Photo-Like Charcoal and Graphite Drawings of Robert Longo
New York-based artist Robert Longo creates detailed charcoal drawings that look amazingly photo-like. If you thought your sketches were pretty good, wait till you see what this guy can do. You know when you look at a photo and you say to yourself “this looks too good to be true”? Most of the time Photoshop […]
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, […]
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 Photo-Like Ballpoint Pen Drawings of Juan Francisco Casas
They might look like sharp photographs of ordinary people, but the images below are actually ballpoint pen drawings created by artist Juan Francisco Casas. 34-year-old Casas, from Spain, was originally a traditional painter,but started experimenting with the ballpoint pen as a joke, just to see if he could draw something so realistic people would think […]