Believe it or not, the following picture of Nastassja Kinski is not a photograph.

Dave Archambault, the artist behind this portrait, creates such detailed and photo-realistic works of art using only ballpoint pens.

Snip from the site:

“Why ball point?”, you ask? “Grey” is the answer. Technical pens don’t do grey. They do black and white crosshatches that look grey from a distance. The ball point has the ability to produce such a microscopic line that even tones of grey are achievable. Much better for reproducing photographs, which is what I do.

The artist also does commissioned portraits, at an average price of $ 400 for a 18″x24″piece.

Link to the gallery.

(Thanks, Jeff)

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