Italian artist Emanuele Dascanio is amazingly talented. His work fascinates art enthusiasts around the world. At first, it looks like Dascanio works as a photographer, but that's not quite the case.
These are portraits drawn by Dascanio!
He uses a mixture of wood, charcoal and graphite to craft these images (a technique that dates back to the Renaissance).
It takes up to 780 hours for him to complete one of these portraits.
A photograph would hardly be more accurate.
Here you can see how his work slowly takes shape.
Things get even more complicated when color comes into play.
What a hypnotizing look.
How would you know this wasn't a photo?
Smaller drawings like this hand in water are also mesmerizing.
Dascanio took art lessons with the Italian artist Gianluca Corona, but has since developed his skill further and created a unique style of his own - amazing!