Born 1977 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Alyssa Monks began oil painting as a child. She studied at The New School in New York and Montclair State University and earned her B.A. from Boston College in 1999. Using filters such as glass, vinyl, water, and steam, Alyssa distort the body in shallow painted spaces. These filters […]
Amazing realistic pencil graphite drawings by Paul Lung
Paul Lung is a Hong Kong based pencil artist with a very strong mark in portrait and realistic animal drawings. All he need is a mech pencil with 0.3mm 2B lead or 0.5mm with 4B lead to draw. When you are looking on his artworks and see so much details and effects created just with […]
Oil on Aluminum Scratch art by Han Young-Wook
Han Young-Wook is a Korean artist who creates unbelievably detailed portraits with oil through the elaboration of sharply scratching aluminum surfaces. The first impression of his paintings was that the figures in the pictures were strange but vivid. Exquisitely depicted details of his figures are so elaborated that you may doubt that he focuses on […]


