Tag: illustration

July 10, 2013 at 3:35 pm

Amazing Pencil Portraits Drawn Onto Dollar Bills

Amazing Pencil Portraits Drawn Onto Dollar Bills

“Hash” Ashish Patel is a fine art portrait artist working mostly with pencils and charcoal. Hailing from New Jersey, the artist has nearly 120,000 followers on Instagram where he shares much of his artwork. In a short-lived series, Patel used graphite and white-colored pencils to draw incredible portraits onto $1 and $5 US bills.…

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July 8, 2013 at 4:03 pm

Family Finds Grandfather’s Adorable Love Letter Envelopes to Wife

Family Finds Grandfather's Adorable Love Letter Envelopes to Wife

Redditor jennymaecry recently shared a series of love letter envelopes from her grandfather to her grandmother. Both have since passed away and she says they discovered the letters after going through some of his stuff. All of the letters were date stamped in 1946 and sent to Ruth Roy’s home in Chisholm, Maine which…

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June 22, 2013 at 11:20 am

These 3D Drawings Leap Off the Page

These 3D Drawings Leap Off the Page

Ramon Bruin is a Dutch artist with an amazing talent for 3D anamorphic drawings that seem to leap off of the page. Using pencils, ink and even paint, Bruin brings his drawings to life by capturing them with a camera at the perfect angle to create the illusion of 3D. Aside from drawing, Ramon…

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June 15, 2013 at 4:35 pm

The Chalkboard Adventures of a Newborn Baby

The Chalkboard Adventures of a Newborn Baby

Photographer Anna Eftimie and her husband are the duo behind Cute Moments Photography, an award-winning baby photography studio based out of San Jose, California. In a series entitled Blackboard Adventures, Anna imagines what a newborn child may be dreaming of as they lay asleep. She illustrates their dreams on a chalkboard located directly underneath…

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June 14, 2013 at 3:13 pm

The Oatmeal Hit a Million Likes and Then Did This for his Fans

The Oatmeal Hit a Million Likes and Then Did This for his Fans

It started with a simple question and a great suggestion… Then on June 13, 2013 at 2:58pm ET, the mighty Oatmeal hit 1,000,000 Likes on Facebook. And hilarity ensued… Artwork by Matthew Inman @ The Oatmeal Artwork by Matthew Inman @ The Oatmeal Artwork by…

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June 5, 2013 at 11:20 am

Hyperrealistic Portraits Drawn with Pencil

Hyperrealistic Portraits Drawn with Pencil

Franco Clun is a self-taught artist from Italy known for his hyperrealistic portraits drawn with only a pencil. All of his works are done on watercolor paper and take upwards of 50 hours to complete. Clun tells the Daily Mail: “At the end of each drawing, I feel I know so much more about…

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May 26, 2013 at 4:18 pm

Styrofoam Cup Fully Illustrated Inside and Out with a Pen

Styrofoam Cup Fully Illustrated Inside and Out with a Pen

Two weeks ago, Redditor SquishyMcPhee posted a gallery of pictures showing a Styrofoam cup completely illustratted inside and out with just a ballpoint pen. The intricate detail is very impressive, but the most fascinating feature is how well the inside of the cup is illustrated with patterns and figures. On how he came across…

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May 25, 2013 at 11:27 am

Clever Animal Illustrations Using Negative Space

Clever Animal Illustrations Using Negative Space

George Bokhua is an illustrator and graphic designer from Tbilisi, Georgia. Last month, Bokhua posted a series of animal illustrations to Behance that used negative space to give the animals their recognizable form. You can find highlights of the series below. Be sure to check out George Bokhua’s entire portfolio on Behance for more…

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May 13, 2013 at 9:02 am

Black Marker Coffee Cup Art by Cheeming Boey

Black Marker Coffee Cup Art by Cheeming Boey

Cheeming Boey (born April 12, 1978) is a Malaysian artist best known for his ongoing series of illustrations on paper and foam coffee cups, his daily webcomic I Am Boey, and the autobiographical graphic novel When I Was A Kid. Using only a black marker, Boey draws intricate and detailed artworks on the exterior…

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April 24, 2013 at 3:37 pm

Creative Dad Shares 5 Years of Sandwich Bag Art

Creative Dad Shares 5 Years of Sandwich Bag Art

Since May 2008, graphic designer, illustrator, and Dad extraordinaire, David Laferriere, has been drawing on his kids’ sandwich bags with a Sharpie marker. Each drawing is done just after he makes the sandwich. He then takes a picture and posts it to Flickr where there are over 1,100 pictures and counting! Laferriere says the…

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