Hyper-realism is a relatively new art form dating back to the early '70s ... He's perfected all the tiny details that go into creating portraits of animals that look so real.

Photo-realistic ... by generating art that he says is "more real than reality." Kim uses oil on canvas to create stunning and often mind-bending high-definition images of small animals such ...

These hyper-realistic images may look like professional photographs but they are painstakingly-detailed drawings - created with charcoal. Artist Dylan Eakin draws the intricate and incredibly ...

During her lifetime, Rosa Bonheur’s stunningly realistic ... her art education as a teenager, copying paintings at the Louvre under her father’s tutelage and studying living animals firsthand ...

Now the 29-year-old makes a lucrative living sketching portraits of people or animals. The portraits take her up to 100 hours to create because each detailed art work has more than 500 000 individual ...