At just 22 years old, Italian artist Diego Fazo has developed the skill to create photo-realistic drawings using a simple charcoal pencil. His latest creation, pictured below, has drawn hundreds of positive comments on his Deviant Art profile.

Don’t tell me you can tell the image below is a drawing and not a high-definition photograph, because I don’t buy it. In fact people were so skeptical this incredible piece of art was drawn by hand that young Diego Fazo had to put up some photos of the work in progress just to lay doubts to rest. And looking at his-mind-blowing masterpiece, can you really blame people for  questioning it’s hand-drawn?

Like other talented artists who started their careers on Deviant Art, Diego is a self-taught pencil master whose technique matured with the passing of the years. He started out as a tattoo artist, and developed a passion for creating photo-realistic drawings. Inspired by the works of Japanese artists from the Edo period, like Katsushika Hokusai, he managed to capture people’s imaginations with his precise lines and oriental drawing techniques.

Amazing

Looks too real. He might be working ON a real picture and not sketching one.

This is good, reminds me of Kelvin Okafor's works

wow!! wow!! wow!!.. All i can say is WOW!!

his works are so real that i had to get some other of his works.

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no way that i am gonna believe the first picture..

Just wait, all the local champions of NL are coming. Any minute now, they will start posting their own

This is really good. We also have Nigerian artists who are good, not Kelvin Okafor. I'll do a a post on some.

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Wow this is amazing

The first one actually looked like Olga Melamory's drawing. Nice artistic skills. . .

cool stuff

iammo6: no way that i am gonna believe the first picture..

we have talented people in the world...there is nothing impossible to do

still doesnt change my perpective about this picture

barnabas91: we have talented people in the world...there is nothing impossible to do

iammo6: still doesnt change my perpective about this picture

•​​​​​ℓσℓ•ː̗̀=))ː̖́ ...so what do u think about the picture? That it wasn't drawn?

yes

barnabas91:
•​​​​​ℓσℓ•ː̗̀=))ː̖́ ...so what do u think about the picture? That it wasn't drawn?

Dis dude is in a super duper level wish he could make a potrait of meself....