Sheila Giovanni, an artist from Brazil, only needs her pencils to create hyperrealistic paintings that look exactly like celebrities. Yes, they are definitely not photographs.

These are paintings made thanks to the Brushes application on an iPad.

The artist David Kassan says that he used this same app on iPhone and that it is not quite the same: "This seems to be more about sculpting the painting and it gives the artist more of a feel for the subject matter and composition. The larger screen obviously helps. The options for colour correction and control are far improved from the iPhone."

Maybe he’s right, but I can say that iPhone paintings that I saw are also awesome. 

David Irwine finds old or discarded thrift store paintings and revives them by adding pop-culture icons.

Remington Robinson’s paintings are beautiful, and they have a bit of a twist – they can fit in your pocket. Originally from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Robinson moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 2004, following his passion for painting mountains. He saw someone else doing it, and gradually started painting smaller and smaller things until he just said, “why not?” and started doing these.

Aaron Schuerr juxtaposes his pieces to the subject which in his work becomes a frame, an ideal background that perfectly blends with art to create one breathtaking image.

American artist Craig Alan is famous for creating pieces that are more than your average portrait.

Alex Grey documents his experiences with LSD, as well as the “endless love and unity” he realized from taking the drug. He has been painting for years and years, and his works became pretty popular.

The Canvas Project is a project created by Brazilian artist Gabriel Nardelli Araújo. He takes figures from classical paintings and photoshops them into the modern settings. His project so far is fully digital, as none of the pictures exist physically yet.

Kei Mieno, 33, is a Japanese artist born in Hiroshima who has been painting professionally for more than 10 years already. Recently the artist has created a picture of a woman lying in the stream and the Internet was stunned to find out it wasn’t a photo. Check out more of this amazing artist’s works!

Ivan Shishkin was a Russian painter who lived from 1832 to 1898, and whose paintings are looking way too real.

There is always a side to people we don't know, like these paintings of a person who started the biggest war up to date. Some pictures indeed portrait a war (World War I) but some are just landscapes and other classical artworks.

Zdzisław Beksiński became famous for his surreal paintings that, how he said himself, “photograph dreams”. And they indeed can carry you into the delirious world of nightmares.

Artist Brent Estabrook from Seattle, Washington makes such detailed paintings that people often ask him if they aren’t photos. Check ‘em out.