What’s the use of a good old ballpoint pen? Doodling your notebooks at school? Making mustaches and black eyes in people in magazines? Forget about it. Try making incredible, photo-realistic illustrations.

Samuel Silva, a Portuguese artist took ballpoint pen art to a whole new level. Using a variety of color pens he managed to doogle paint fantastic portraits of people and animals, and some fantastic landscapes. This is truly mind-blowing! This guy is really talented and you should really check his deviantART portfolio for much more. I hope you enjoy these!