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...

Jeff Bartels

Ken Nwadiogbu, 23, is a visual artist from Lagos, Nigeria, who specializes in 3D hyper-realistic drawings done on paper, creating pictures and portraits so realistic that you have to look twice to make sure they aren’t photographs.

Ken Nwadiogbu, 23, is a visual artist from Lagos, Nigeria, who specializes in 3D hyper-realistic drawings done on paper, creating pictures and portraits so realistic that you have to look twice...

It took me weeks to finish these drawings. I couldn't fit everything in and not all of my technique is shown. I just wanted to share my progress and some stages of how I draw.

It took me weeks to finish these drawings. I couldn't fit everything in and not all of my technique is shown. I just wanted to share my progress and some stages...

George Diamantis

Kyoto-based artist Kazuhiro Tsuji has been shocking people with his incredibly lifelike sculptures of famous people. His perfect bust of Abraham Lincoln looks so real you’d swear he traveled back to 1865 to capture a color photograph. The same goes for...

Kyoto-based artist Kazuhiro Tsuji has been shocking people with his incredibly lifelike sculptures of famous people. His perfect bust of Abraham Lincoln looks so real you’d swear he traveled back to...

Hidrėlėy

Beijing artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu have been known to create installations using real cadavers or human fat tissue, and though their newest creation does not include these macabre parts, it's so realistic and unsettling that it might as well....

Beijing artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu have been known to create installations using real cadavers or human fat tissue, and though their newest creation does not include these macabre parts,...

Dainius

Dino Tomic, a talented Croatian tattoo artist in Norway, likes to create gripping realistic drawings when he's not tattooing clients. His drawings, whether drawing upon horror and sci-fi elements or looking to realistic models for inspiration, pulse with dynamic force.

Dino Tomic, a talented Croatian tattoo artist in Norway, likes to create gripping realistic drawings when he's not tattooing clients. His drawings, whether drawing upon horror and sci-fi elements or looking...

Dovas

Talented artist Karla Mialynne isn't content with simply sharing her stunning hyper-realistic art with her 44,000 Instagram followers – she posts these images together with the artistic utensils she used to create these pieces, as if to prove that these are...

Talented artist Karla Mialynne isn't content with simply sharing her stunning hyper-realistic art with her 44,000 Instagram followers – she posts these images together with the artistic utensils she used to...

Dovas

I'm Patrick Kramer, a hyper realistic painter originally from Kaysville, Utah. Working from photos, I paint whatever captures my interest, from still lives and portraits to city scenes or landscapes.

I'm Patrick Kramer, a hyper realistic painter originally from Kaysville, Utah. Working from photos, I paint whatever captures my interest, from still lives and portraits to city scenes or landscapes.

Kramer Art

Talented Singaporean artist Keng Lye, whom we previously wrote about here, is back with more of his stunning fish and aquatic wildlife illusions. Lye's method is a brilliant bit of trickery. By pouring layers of crystal-clear synthetic resin and painting on...

Talented Singaporean artist Keng Lye, whom we previously wrote about here, is back with more of his stunning fish and aquatic wildlife illusions. Lye's method is a brilliant bit of trickery....

Dovas

Alyssa Monks is a New Jersey-based artist who’s most famous for her stunning hyper realistic paintings. Although they seem like photographs, these are actually very detailed portraits of bathing people.

Alyssa Monks is a New Jersey-based artist who’s most famous for her stunning hyper realistic paintings. Although they seem like photographs, these are actually very detailed portraits of bathing people.

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