Awesome Portraits

They make look like paintings or pictures tweaked on an image editor, but artist Daniel Kornrumpf actually hand-embroidered these portraits on linen. Check out his site to see more of his work.

Paper sculptor Kris Trappeniers creates pristinely twisty and complex portrait stencils – truly gorgeous art in and of itself – then completes each piece on canvas with spray paint or acrylics.

Marcus Levine’s art takes him between 3 days to 2 months to finish and can have up to 50,000 nails. He doesn’t sketch before he starts – he’d rather hammer a single nail in and proceed from there.

Previously featured for his pencil/photo mashups, artist Ben Heine has a unique new technique – creating entire portraits from a series of perfect circles with only Photoshop CS4 and his raw talent.

Artist Andrew Myers creates these incredible 3-dimensional portraits by drilling 8,000 to 10,000 individual screws into a plywood panel, then paints the heads to complete the imagery.