Using photos just for inspiration, he sets up basic proportions and then draws layer upon layer until he creates his incredibly realistic portraits ... he says he prefers drawing to photography ...

You might have heard about how art ... so realistic that you’ll be tempted to reach out your hand just to be sure. Rane uses simple tools like pencils, colours and sketch pens to draw everyday ...

This is not a photograph. We repeat, it is NOT a photograph. It is a hyper-realistic pencil drawing by 50-year-old Glasgow ‘realist artist’ Paul Cadden. And it’s blowing our minds.

But these are not photographs: each hyperreal image is in fact a color pencil drawing, resulting from between 300 and 500 hours of careful construction. Now, Holmes’ works have been brought ...