Artist Creates Incredibly Realistic Colored Pencil Drawings That Look Like Photos

Although Adolfo Fernandez Rodriguez started drawing with pencils after the age of 40, Adolfo – a Madrid based artist, quickly mastered this method. Using only colored pencils, he now draws life-like characters, bubbles, reflections and ripples of water that often get confused with hyper-realistic oil paintings and even photographs.

His amazing creations include incredibly realistic waves and drops of water, distorted reflections as well as some very accurate depictions of statues and extremely detailed complex pieces such as two hands on a pile of hay with every straw cautiously contoured, or the pages of a book where the artist actually took the time to fill the pages with words and drawings. “I only just discovered this Spanish artist and, really, what else is there to say about his work but – ‘WOW!’ Done in a very accurate style, all of his drawings look like paintings and many of them are almost incredible to tell apart from a photograph. I find not only his work, but also his interpretations and expressions of the love he feels for his many subjects, to be incredibly inspiring,” associated pencil artist Lissa Rachelle Robillard wrote about Rodriguez’s work.