HyperReal: Are Paul Cadden Pictures Pencil Drawings or Photos? (Photos)

At first glance, these stunning images look like moments captured by a talented photographer.

But you cannot always believe what you see. These pictures, with their incredible photographic detail, are in fact the hand-drawn creations of Scottish hyperrealist Paul Cadden.

With often nothing more than a pencil to hand, the 47-year-old artist from Glasgow produces intricate drawings that could easily rival the work of any state-of-the-art digital camera.

From the wrinkles on a woman's face and beads of water to a puff of smoke from a cigarette, he is able to capture the minutiae of his subjects in such painstaking detail that the images look astonishingly real.

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