“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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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