My name is Ryan Marshall and I am a 16-year-old photorealist. People, who say that old dogs cant learn new tricks, make me nervous, because I hope to never stop learning.

Australian artist Loui Jover believes that images emerge from words, and creates affecting art pieces on the pages of vintage books.

The universal symbol of coffee – a Starbucks paper cup – seldom has any more drawings on it than a marker-written name on it. Not sure if Tomoko Shintani from Japan was inspired by this empty space, or just because you always wanna play around with something while chilling with a coffee, but her Starbucks cups became part of whimsical and cartoonish drawings.

These creatively dangerous ads were created by Fischer America for a design studio called Macacolandia with a message “Give More Life to Drawings”. Art Director: Hugo Amaral. Illustration: Marcelo Braga. Photo: Lucio Cunha.

You get really suspicious when you see the pictures made by Diego Fazio and are told that they are not actually captured by camera. Known to the Deviantart users as DiegoKoi, this self-taught Italian creates his unbelievable paintings by using a pencil only.

If you watch a children’s cartoon or remember a childhood fairytale, you’re bound to feel a rush of positive emotions. That’s exactly what you feel after seeing the cute pictures by Marta Altes, who combines simple pen drawings with bits of pencil shavings. This children´s book illustrator with a Cambridge degree found a way to make something beautiful out of what most of us would consider trash.

Try drawing a piece of crumpled paper so well that it would make people want to try and straighten it. While my attempts go as far as making me want to crumble the very paper I drew on, American illustrator Mark Crilley takes only a couple of minutes to replicate things so realistically one can hardly believe it’s not a photograph.

In 1995, artist Bryan Lewis Saunders started a project to create a new self portrait every day for the rest of his life. While this alone sounds like a crazy idea, some of the portraits are being made under the influence of various drugs. By now, he has created about 8,000 self-portraits and according to his [...]

Aspara pencil manufacturers from Mumbai, India found a creative way to help the customers choose from a pile. The company in cooperation with the artist Vipin Baria from Delhi, India created an advertising campaign communicating that Aspara drawing pencils make pictures come alive. Vipin Baria drew several portraits reacting to the pencil, moving over their faces. The unique idea is definitely eye caching and puts a smile on one‘s face.

American artist Joe Fenton dedicated 10 months of his life to create a single drawing. Ten hours a day, 7 days a week, 8ft across & 5ft high. He started working with an 0.5 mechanical pen and finished with ink and acrylic.