Bored Panda works better on our iPhone app
Continue in app Continue in browser

BoredPanda Add post form topAdd Post Search
Tooltip close

The Bored Panda iOS app is live! Fight boredom with iPhones and iPads here.

I Use Various Glassware For Painting Hyperrealistic Animals And Here Are 20 Photos Of Them (New Pics)

I am a Romanian artist who creates realistic paintings on glasses. And yes, you can use them! I was born in Bucharest and started painting as soon as I could hold a paintbrush in my hand.

I am a Romanian artist who creates realistic paintings on glasses. And yes, you can use them! I was born in Bucharest and started painting as soon as I could hold...

This Nigerian Artist Learned How To Paint With Fire And With Pyrography, He Creates Hyperrealistic Portraits (38 Pics)

Making hyperrealistic art with traditional mediums is already difficult enough, therefore, using pyrography (painting with fire on wood) is even less forgiving.

Making hyperrealistic art with traditional mediums is already difficult enough, therefore, using pyrography (painting with fire on wood) is even less forgiving.

Japanese Artist Paints Hyperrealistic Paintings That Are So Precise You Might Confuse Them With Photos (25 New Pics)

Japanese painter Kei Mieno creates painstakingly detailed and realistic paintings that can be easily mistaken for photographs

Japanese painter Kei Mieno creates painstakingly detailed and realistic paintings that can be easily mistaken for photographs

I Paint Hyperrealistic Oil Paintings Of Strange Antiques That Never Existed

Alternative Artifacts is my latest series of hyperreal oil paintings which feature strange antiques that never existed. The bizarre objects stretch and bend the truth about our past in order to bring a focus on the deceptions going on in our...

Alternative Artifacts is my latest series of hyperreal oil paintings which feature strange antiques that never existed. The bizarre objects stretch and bend the truth about our past in order to...

11-Year-Old Kid From Nigeria Creates Hyperrealistic Drawings, And The Result Will Blow Your Mind

Meet Kareen Waris Olamilekan (also known as Waspa), an 11-year-old artist from Lagos, Nigeria, who is quickly gaining international recognition for his life-like drawings. This talented young man is currently studying at Ayowole Academy of Arts, calls himself a “bitty artist”,...

Meet Kareen Waris Olamilekan (also known as Waspa), an 11-year-old artist from Lagos, Nigeria, who is quickly gaining international recognition for his life-like drawings. This talented young man is currently studying...

This Is Not What It Looks Like! These Giant Paint Blobs Are Actually Pencil Drawings

You may know artist Cj Hendry for her black and white work, including a Chanel perfume bottle and Kayne West’s face on a $100 bill. But for Hendry's latest art project, she took quite a turn from black and white pieces...

You may know artist Cj Hendry for her black and white work, including a Chanel perfume bottle and Kayne West’s face on a $100 bill. But for Hendry's latest art project,...

Unbelievably Realistic Pencil Drawings By This Nigerian Artist Look More Real Than Photos Themselves

Drawing portraits already takes an incredible amount of patience and skill, but Nigerian artist Arinze Stanley has decided to make his task even tougher and stick only to simple monochrome pencils.

Drawing portraits already takes an incredible amount of patience and skill, but Nigerian artist Arinze Stanley has decided to make his task even tougher and stick only to simple monochrome pencils.

Click to unmute

Dutch artist Marcel Witte creates paintings that look like photographs and carry powerful messages. His work ‘Migration’ features a life-size polar bear mother and her two tiny cubs, floating on an air mattress in the shape of a floe.

Dutch artist Marcel Witte creates paintings that look like photographs and carry powerful messages. His work ‘Migration’ features a life-size polar bear mother and her two tiny cubs, floating on an...

Click to unmute

Artist Mike Dargas paints with oil, but his images look like photographs. What's more amazing is that he's self-taught. "I have never studied at an art school," Dargas told Bored Panda, "I just started painting at the age of 3."

Artist Mike Dargas paints with oil, but his images look like photographs. What's more amazing is that he's self-taught. "I have never studied at an art school," Dargas told Bored Panda,...

100 Incredibly Realistic Artworks That Are Hard to Believe Are Not Photographs

Since the ancient Greeks, realism has been aspired by Western art lovers, but during the late 1960s and '70s the popularity of highly-realistic paintings reached its peak. Thus, Photorealism and Hyperrealism were born. These genres are still popular, and some artists...

Since the ancient Greeks, realism has been aspired by Western art lovers, but during the late 1960s and '70s the popularity of highly-realistic paintings reached its peak. Thus, Photorealism and Hyperrealism...