Have you ever wondered what Natalie Portman, Drew Barrymore or Brad Pitt would look like living in the Renaissance era? These beautiful renderings of modern actors and singers inhabiting the 14th through 17th centuries might make you wish you had lived during those times.

Jennifer Aniston

Don’t these real school photos make you want to revisit your junior high and high school days? It is hard to fathom what these kids were thinking when they posed with a cat, a keyboard, shirtless and in a variety of hideous outfits. Sometimes youth is not wasted on the young.

I’m with the band.

All these photo portraits have one thing in common. They are part of the project “Echoism” that focuses on facial symmetry. The subjects were pictured front to carema. As a part of the study, they were asked not to express emotions. Then each photograph was split into a left and a right section with one side to be horizontally flipped, afterwards pictures were recombined to create two separate and symmetrical identities of the person.

These are self portraits of a person who is using some rather dangerous drugs. They are all there and they are an amazing array of drugs. Some are legal pharmaceuticals and some are illegal street drugs. The self portraits speak for themselves.

All these people seem to be so happy when smiling for their booking photograph. I wonder why.

These are some amazing portraits of celebrities. Many of them are in black and white which is known to show more emotion. The portraits were done by celebrity photographer, Andrew McPherson. They are quite remarkable.

Ordinary things can form amazing portraits when arranged in a particular order by genius artists.

These incredible child portraits were taken by a photographer named Akval. They catch these children doing what they do best, being themselves. The clarity and attention to detail make them absolutely beautiful.

These are dazzling examples of digital portraits of men that look very realistic. I think it is difficult to capture male beauty, but these artists have succeeded in digital art like no one else. Talented and gorgeous paintings will surely draw your attention, as all these portraits show either famous men or simply handsome and sexy guys.

Other examples of beautiful digital paintings:

Amazing Examples of Hyper Realistic Paintings (18 pics)

Hyper Realistic Human Portraits (14 pics)

10 Pictures You Won’t Believe Are Paintings

Josh Holloway

These graffiti portraits are simply stunning.

Somebody likes to take pictures of nature. Others enjoy taking pictures of themselves, their family and friends. But there are people like Danny Santos II who shoot strangers on the city streets. This photographer lives in Singapore. So far he has about 65 portraits of strangers, but his goal is to create about 100 portraits. You can see the best of his works after the jump.

These are the pictures of Apache tribe made by Edward S. Curtis in the beginning of the 20th century.

Edward S. Curtis took photos of many American Indian tribes, which were considered a vanishing race at the time. His photographs remain memorable icons of the American Indians.

I hope you’ll enjoy it as I did.
 

Apart from being completely horrible, they are extremely funny as well :)

Enjoy!
 

Clint Eastwood

Another compilation of creative and beautiful computer graphics images from CG society.

They look really amazing.

If you’re a fan of 3D graphics you can check out other similar posts:

Great 3D Computer Graphics Creations (45 pics)

Awesome realistic CG images (38 pics)
 

American photographer Jill Greenberg is well-known for emotional portraits of famous people, children and animals. Enjoy!

These wonderful human portraits look like photos. They were painted by Simon Hennesy who is a genius in creating meticulously detailed drawings. I love all his works!

Feel the real nerd attitude ;)

Wow! Disgusting! Amazing! Yes, paintings made by this artist named Pricasso leave a mix of feelings from frank antipathy to sincere amusement. You will never guess HOW Pricasso paints unless you look at the photos inside this post (the mistery is solved at the very bottom of the page). By the way, the price for one portrait is over $75!