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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have found a way to turn simple line drawings into photo-realistic facial images. Developed by a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, DeepFaceDrawing uses artificial ...

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 ...