Paul Cadden is a Scottish hyper-realist artist who creates incredibly realistic artworks using only graphite and chalk. His drawings and paintings are made based upon series of photographs or video stills, but the subject depicted is much more complex, creating “the illusion of a new reality not seen in the original photo”.

You’ve probably seen a lot of realistic drawings in the past around here, like Sung Jin Kim’s lips paintings, Marta Penter’s artistic legs work, Sarah Harvey’s water paintings, or (a personal favorite of mine) Paul Lung’s cat drawings, but these pieces give a new meaning to hyper-realism in drawing. These are made with only graphite and chalk and go deep down to the finest of details, like the many wrinkles on an old woman’s face, water dripping from someone’s face, smoke from a lit cigar or piles of garbage.





(Images via Deviant Art)
These are so beautiful and amazing. I can’t believe that they are drawings!
These are
Quite a lot of hard work.
señores , mas hiperrealismo, ahora es el turno del grafito y las tizas!!
pre mim o melhor da arte moderna, quer dizer, dos tempos de hoje
Too much work for me. I’m too lazy for that.
The render is perfect though.