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Unbelievable Pencil Art by Paul Lung

February 23rd in:  Art Works, Pencil Art
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pencil drawings by Paul Lung

It’s hard to belive but all these beautiful pictures are not photos but pencil drawings. The author of such unbelievable art is 38-year-old graphic artist from Hong Kong Paul Lung. 0.5 mm technical pencil and A2 paper are the only attributes of these masterpieces. He doesn’t use eraser and spends up to 60 hours sketching out his pictures. As he often admits people do not belive him and he has to make videos of his work to prove that these art works are not photographs. Check these beautiful artworks by yourself.

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UPDATE: Due to the increasing number of comments from our readers who doubt in real belonging of these images to the works of Paul Lung – we’ve contacted with author of these art works. Rather Paul Loong himself contacted us and explained that not all of art works were placed in its portfolio on devianart were really his work. How it was happened – Lung did not explain, but we have edited our post, and now our readers can be sure – all the works featured on this page are indeed the real work of Paul Lung.

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

pencil drawings by Paul Lung

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February 23rd

Really unbelievable but I believe these are hand drawn. COZ The Signature of the dude is added to the images. also its possible thats why.

Star Trek: SVU
June 10th

Yes… it would be impossible to add a signature to a photograph using Photoshop. Homo habilis says, “What?” Snide remarks aside, they are beautifully drawn. The cat wearing a bow tie is my personal favorite.

asdf
June 10th

You don’t think you can add a signature to a photo?!?!?!

February 23rd

*mouth drops*..genius!

February 23rd

these are simply amazing! I would love to see his work with people. what a great talent!

Pooja
February 23rd

Wow loved it man

Rohit Kumar
February 24th

Really these are hand drawn?? I can’t believe.

NOYB
July 28th

and to those who don’t believe. He posts legit WIPS. And yes it’s possible. And guess what? There’s even BETTER out there as well. It’s not impossible =/ Yes, there are A LOT of fakes out there, but then again there are a LOT of real good artists, like this one, who put their time and patience into their drawings to make them look realistic. That’s the problem these days, people can use photoshop to make their photos look like drawings, and they go off saying they drew it.

Then people find out about it, and they start to question every good realism artist out there! ALL BECAUSE OF A BUNCH OF LIARS! cheaters! jealous idiots who want attention!

NOYB
July 28th

uhhh….. you know he draws portraits too? =/

February 24th

I’d like to know ‘how”…

Nick
June 1st

With his hand, a 0.5 mm pencil, an A4 paper sheet and a lot of patience :)

KYYYD
June 15th

WHY DO PEOPLE THINK THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DO??? TO THE IDIOT THAT WANTS TO KNOW “HOW”… WITH HIS HANDS!!!!

March 2nd

wow! amazing!

Lukas
March 2nd

what a talent! amazing…

habeeb fatima afsar
March 3rd

incredible,lively &lovely. i love such an art.i will tell my son to learn this n do this type of art work, with a signature of his own, of people.

Fox
June 15th

“I will tell my son to learn this and do this type of art work” …control much

March 16th

I can’t believe. They are just awesome!

March 16th

Impressive artwork. Thanks for sharing these pieces.

March 29th

What a great talent. Would love to be his student and learn.

Karl
April 3rd

looks like photographs but OOOOH,believe it..it’s just made by a pencil :O

April 3rd

OMG unbelievable works, i definitely like to see the video these drawings :)

April 9th

Still cannot believe my own eyes ,I am very lucky and privileged to see these amazing art works . simply unbelievable .

April 26th

wow!wanna see the videos~!

May 4th

great picturesc! thanks ! :D

gaksdesigns
May 19th

This is brilliant

kir_aib
May 20th

Extraordinary work!!

May 20th

Wow…simply breath taking!

@bulmah
May 21st

Wonderful!!

weyne
May 21st

Uou! Great!

May 22nd

WOW. not much else one can say – those are incredible!

John NYC
May 22nd

Thank you, pictures are more than just copying photographs the expressions are absolutely wonderful and the lion’s hairdo is absolutke beautiful, he looks so bewildered.

Télbia M.A Guimarães
May 23rd

What a wonderful artwork!I want see the video.

Sammy
May 26th

Pencil??? amazing dude

May 27th

This guy’s awesome! :D

Andy
May 28th

totally awwwwsome

Name
May 28th

pretty good to bad he wastes his time drawing fag cats instead of something cool

Judy
June 7th

Did you notice the white eyebrows on the cats? How does he do that with a black pencil? The skill and foreplanning are amazing.
Cats are way more interesting. And the Tiger is fabulous!

Christy Hastings
June 7th

@Judy – that was exactly what I was thinking. White whiskers – wow! I am also impressed with the studio portrait style, as if these animals were “sitting” for him. So amazing. Time to break my pencils, pens and brushes…

jessie
June 10th

a sharp eraser ;)

Koja
June 11th

It’s not as amazing as you think. This artist just has a lot patience and control. There are many kinds of white pencil one can use as well.

Cuteadin
May 29th

Amazing!
Some of these look like photos, they’re so real!

Keep it up! ^.^

May 29th

wow some off the best stuff iv ever seen

bogdan
June 2nd

BRAVO!!!!THIS IS A REAL ARTIST!

tosheets
June 2nd

wow…… what gr8 work…. it’s really unbelievable…. anybody know where i can see the video.

Trimmins
June 3rd

Very good. Also very boring.

June 4th

MY GOD. AMAZING. THE BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN IN PENCIL!!!

June 5th

I am AMAZED. Period.

June 5th

Thank you!

paul
June 5th

You are all Idiots, Its not real , just photoshopped …

June 5th

Incredible but TRUE !!!!!!!!!!!! I would very much like to contact the artist. Can anyone link me to him (or her)? thanks in advance.

Sara
June 26th

You can type his name, Paul Lung, into your search box and that will take you there.

bleh
June 5th

with a little lsd this dude cold be a legend

rakesh
June 5th

I would like to see the video while he takes these photos ;)

Optimistic Sam
June 5th

Verified fake.

gholmes
June 5th

I would love to spend an hour just watching him. Once knew an artist, John Gnagy, that could paint Realism so well that the first time I went to his home I saw just how good he was at it. In the entryway there was photograph of an ear of corn, just a plain ear of corn. Now I am a professional photographer and I thought that it was a photograph. Wondered why a painter of his stature (at the time0 would have such a plain photograph, even tho it was excellent by any standard. I am sure by now you all have guessed it, he had painted it and I couldn’t tell it was painted!!!!!

Melanie
June 6th

His work is just spectacular!

June 6th

I think this collection is fake :)

Debbie Connett
June 6th

EXTRAORDINARY!!!!!! Can’t even be explained how beautiful!!!!!

Peggy
June 6th

these are so beautiful and AMAZING!!

Arup Ahmed
June 6th

I Can’t Belive it & How Can Possible it I Don’t Know? Only God Knows What Is Reality.Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha……..Anyway, Thanks a Lot. I Want To See The Artist.

Brian
June 7th

The 4 with signatures are real drawings. The others are not.

June 7th

Technically copying is the easiest form…now if he drew things that didn’t exist I’d be impressed.

Tensai
June 8th

His abilities are nothing short of incredible. If you think this is “easy,” then I’d like to see you produce something half as good. The artist is a genius. Show some respect.

MasterArtiste
June 7th

Wow, this is almost as good as the ones I have done!
Keep practicing, one day you will be as good as me!!

Piers
June 7th

The work displayed is here is simply incredible! To the naysayers here, one of my brothers-in-law is extremely talented and also used to do pencil sketches similar to these, and although the technique he uses is different, the final product almost looks like a photograph! He created his drawings using only dots but stopped doing it because it took so long to do.

Bob Deuzen
June 7th

All what is written here about pencil drawings from Paul Lung is a very big lie and extremly outrageous!
These are photos from the german photographer ALEXANDER VON REISWITZ!! follow this link: http://www.lumas.de/?id=618&type=0&wid=1071&artist=592&ed=
and you will see.

ichabod
June 7th

Just because the images are ripped from another artist doesn’t mean they’re not actually drawings. The way to get this kind of “realism” is to copy photographs. I believe that they’re drawings, just don’t believe that they’re original art, or that the act of drawing them makes them more interesting than photographs.

June 7th

Great artist!

Jack
June 7th

Those are some of the most awesome pictures I’ve ever seen. His is a rare talent indeed

Realist
June 7th

Not really “drawing” by the strictest meaning of the word — He’s essentially copying the dot-spray of a photo printer. He does spend a lot of time doing it, but a lot of these images are familiar photographs that have been duplicated. The best you could do is call this *really* fine pointillism.

Good work, but I’d like to see originals instead of duplicates of photos. Copying the fine dot pattern of a print-out requires dedication, but not necessarily talent.

Ron
June 7th

So how are these “drawings” related to the images at this link?

http://www.lumas.de/?id=618&type=0&wid=1071&artist=592&ed=

So are these really drawings of the photos at the link or are these outright stolen images being presented here as pencil drawings?

Barbara Thurlow
June 7th

A friend of mine gave me this link, http://www.lumas.de/?id=618&type=0&wid=1071&artist=592&ed It appears the first several works that appear here are actually the photos of Alexander Von Reiswitz. (Notice Lund’s signature is not on those) If those first several are indeed Lund’s drawings, done from those same photos, then the source of the images should be credited, IMO. (I suspect, however, that they are simply misplaced, mistagged images.)

kurtk
June 7th

one of the techniques to doing this art is to start with the lightest / hardest pencil leads and draw the image as dark as posssible. Then take the next softer lead and go over the drawing as dark as it will go. This is continued until you end up with the softest leads. The process is very time consuming but allows the leads to build on each other and become darker than otherwise possible. How do I know? I used to do the same thing and spend a hundred hours on a single image.

John
June 7th

Second to none technical skill. Photo-realism is always neat but not at all artistic. What is being said here except “look how real these look”. Yay.

fark_ready
June 7th

came for three wolves shirt, leaving disappointed

Coolidge
June 15th

This is my favorite comment.

steven leach
June 7th

Stupendous brilliant talent

Frank C
June 8th

Amazing, what patience you must have. To be that zoned to concentrate and interpret your vision in such a way.

subcritical
June 8th

All I can say is wow!

louisa
June 8th

taken from photographs. Still nice work.

http://www.lumas.de/?id=618&type=0&wid=1071&artist=592&ed=

Brian
June 8th

I venture to guess you could also use hundreds of dollars of your good time by using an etching tool and burnisher to slowly and tediously hand carve a replica of a penny, but why?

June 9th

Awww .. absolutely stunning!

Zeppotsu zeppo
June 9th

Theres this finnish guy whos drawings are also pretty cool and awesome.

The dude which i am talking about is matti kataja, if go and check his homepage. http://www.mattikataja.com/

josh
June 9th

why reproduce someone else’s composition in graphite? Waste of time. Not even that impressive as graphite. I went to art school and there are many students who are good with a pencil and a lot of time. If it were painted, that might be a bit more impressive, but when you’re copying shade for shade, point for point – it’s basically a “fill in the space” type of deal. The originals were even in grayscale already.

betty
June 10th

jealous much?

fred
June 11th

These pieces are very, very good, so I don’t want to take away from that… but in a way, you do make a very good point.

If you took a giant sheet of paper with nothing but a billion little boxes in it, and then the original photographs of the same dimensions, and just filled in the right boxes on the blank page, you would emulate the originals very easily.

It’s true that it would be extremely time consuming, and that not everyone might have a steady-enough hand to do so, but that’s what it is.

Shirley
June 9th

He is truly talanted. I really liked the cat with the bow tie.

June 10th

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

June 10th

what an amazing collection of drawings. So hard to believe they are actually drawn by hand and not photographs.
Rebecca

HCR
June 10th

OMG!!! Very very nice. its really Unbelievable. you deserve a prize and respect for this.

Oishe
June 10th

Am simply Wordless!!!!!!! A real wonder……..

June 10th

speechless makes my ink and watercolor work look quite poor

June 10th

Oh my god, this is awesome

June 10th

wow..it’ is awesome x1000

D.M.
June 10th

This is not art. He is merely copying a photograph, which requires technical skill, but not artistic talent. Sorry. It does show extreme dedication to detail, though.

LOLZWORTH
June 10th

These definitely look hand drawn. Exceptionally hand drawn.

June 11th

Boring subjects… it’s just copying someone’s nature photography, practically like those hobbyist “artists” who do pet portraits, but to the nth degree. I’d be interested to see what he could do with that amazing technical skill if he did some creative conceptualizing instead.

June 11th

awasom its look like camera pics, its great art

H.S.
June 11th

I think he draws well.

Jude from Philippines
June 11th

Dude.. I just can’t believe it’s hand drawn. Some of those pictures are not, I mean those pictures without the signature. It’s really impossible. If it’s true then that man must have a lot of patience!!! wack!

Charles
June 11th

WORK SUCH AS THIS BELONGS IN MUSEUMS. WORDS OF PRAISE CANNOT DESCRIBE THE PERFECTION OF THE ARTIST.IT’S DIFFICULT TO COMPREHEND HOW THE ARTIST WAS GIVEN SUCH A GIFT.JUST IMAGINE THE ABILITY TO CREATE SUCH BEAUTY!!

FLSTC
June 11th

I don’t care how he did it, whether he copied it or not, the man is a genius and you can’t take that away from him !!!

Aircolor
June 12th

OMG, lad, just OMG…

hector
June 12th

Estan increibles, aun no puedo creer que esten hechas a lapiz, este tipo es un genio, mis respetos, son verdaderas obras de arte.

Yuri Mikhailov (Russia)
June 12th

Amazing! Thanks!

db
June 12th

Amazing, but hard to really comprehend without a blow-up showing the extent of the detail.

June 13th

It’s comical to read some of the comments here. All those authoritative theories about pixels and white pencils and so on. In reality, Paul doesn’t know how some of these pictures got here and he says he didn’t draw them. He did draw the cats – the ones with signatures. I’ve seen his drawings in progress, and he draws with a pencil using lines, not ulta-fine grid and pixels or anything, a little erasing sometimes. You can ask him yourself. He’s on facebook, artpapa, deviantart, twitter and youtube. A while ago he posted a youtube video for us mid-drawing of one of the cats.

paullung
June 13th

Thanks for your kind words, Jeremy!!!

June 13th

Before commenting – please read UPDATE at the description this post!

June 13th

Amazing, well done!

June 14th

This wonderful art has made me speechless. Short of words to praise it. Simply awesome!

FAH Q
June 14th

i don’t understand the point of an artist copying photographs. it never impresses me. this is not art, merely copying. my scanner can do that.

flabbyhabbybabby
June 15th

Holy mackeral!! This is perfection, almost. Seriously, it’s the best I have ever seen. Wow!

obama
June 15th

where tha white women at?

adam gibson
June 15th

this guy loves pussy

ketlele
June 15th

Absolutely beautiful i’m inspired!

Pretty Kitty
June 15th

Someone Likes Cats???

tram
June 16th

can he draw anything OTHER than cats?!

June 17th

Realy, great!

saeed
June 17th

why he draw just cats?no more animals?

PhotoshopExpert
June 18th

Omg you guys I no everytihng about fotoshop and thes are definetly shoppd. I can tell by teh pixels in the photos and that they are to real to be pencil. You ppl are all so dum for thinkin that these are real. Omg definetly shopped for sure. Im an expert and i can tell.

mustbedreaming
June 18th

nice shading, completely possible with a steady hand, what is it with this dude and cats…creepy creatures, and an odd artist haha

Pencil Maker
June 22nd

Amazing, can you tell me what kind of pencil grade do you use?

June 22nd

waooo, it’s amazing i’ve never seen art work like this in my life time, truly freaking

July 2nd

Wwowoowwowoo! Amazing coll!!!

lupita palacios
July 3rd

theese drawings are impresive i my self love to draw and hope to some my drawings to be as good as theese……..

July 3rd

wow this is cool

July 4th

genial! you are the Velazquez chinesse, or the Goya…. or any great artist. Too much thanks!

yvonne
July 5th

Drawings or photos, either way it is wonder works and adorable subjects.

July 15th

Oh my God..this is amazing

Kevan Dolan
July 22nd

I’m just a nobody, but your art is AMAZING!!! What a talent God gave you. Do you sell these?

Ajgor
August 3rd

Pics are really great. its hard to believe that this are pencil sketch. but its really true. well done paul.

niknok
August 4th

yeaah it’s so amazing,i’d really love the artwork.hurraayy!!!!!

rozina
August 5th

just unbelievable. its really amazing artwork.

kendall
August 9th

i think your art is amazeing when i grow up i want to draw like you right now i am jest practing im realy good but i want to be perfict like you

dick
August 16th

really good…but why are they all cats

Rey
August 18th

i want to be like him..

Atlas
August 22nd

@dick

Because he loves cats. The last one looks like a real picture!! My God! I wonder how long each of them took him to draw.

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