San Antonio is one of the top tattoo cities in the nation and now, local tattoo artists are using new machines and ink to create convincing and even photo-realistic illusions on their clients’ skin.

The work of Texan painter Michael Tole at Cain Schulte looks like a throwback to the 1970s heyday of photo-realism. Tole has taken photographs of faux-Fabergé eggs on offer at a Dallas mall and ...

If you think your eyes are deceiving you – they probably are. Artist Kelvin Okafor’s portraits are not monochrome photographs but intricate drawings etched using the humble pencil. “Using shades of ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. In a world where art forms evolve with every blink, the tattoo industry has witnessed a ground-breaking revolution of its own – the ...

At first glance these are just photographs of people you’ve seen in photographs a thousand time before. But in reality they’re the result of a blank piece of paper, a pencil and around 100 hour of ...

“No way! This cannot be a drawing. It is a photograph,” Haba! Even a blind man can see that,” argued Mr. B as his friend tried to convince him that the image he was looking at is a piece of artwork.

In this era of selfies, Instagrams and what-I-had-for-lunch postings, the art of painting from photographs may be poised for a comeback. In which case, you risk falling out of the loop if you miss ...