French photographer Renaud Monfourny works in the genre of photo portraiture. Here is the collection of the celebrity portraits he made.

Quentin Tarantino

They say: "A picture is worth a thousand words." These are some of such pictures that worth a thousand words and definitely worth a look.

Some people take drugs to devise experiments. Artist Bryan Lewis Saunders, for example, takes drugs to draw himself under the influence. Even though he periodically suffers mild brain damage and becomes lethargic, he still continues his experiments and takes drugs that are given to him. See how his perception of the self changes in his drawings.

Photography was still new during the reign of Queen Victoria, and participants had to sit motionless for a while before a photo could be taken. Strangely, the mothers had to drape sheets over their heads for the photos, making for extremely weird portraits of their kids.

Trying to create a photographic census of the city of New York, photographer Brandon Stanton started his project called “Humans of New York”. He roamed the city streets and took over three thousand portraits. You can see some of them inside this post.

A compilation of hyper realistic 3D computer graphics portraits that are breathtaking and can make your jaw drop.

Not many people use Microsoft Paint for drawing today. However this artist has truly got a natural “talent” for making portraits of celebrities to look this “real”.

Steven Tyler

Some significant portraits that capture personality of different people.

A collection of stunning 3D artworks, portraits and characters, created in 3ds Max, Maya, mental ray, ZBrush and Photoshop.

The Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh took many classic portraits of the world’s most famous people, including writers, actors, singers and humanitarians. Take a stroll through history with this collection of some of Karsh’s finest portraiture.

Brigitte Bardot

The idea to mix two family members’ faces in one is very creative. But the result often looks frightening, just like inside this post. Don’t forget to see the first part of Creepy Split Face Family Portraits.

Take a look at these awesome images of real life celebrities as Russian generals. The English painter George Dawe created portraits during the famous 1812 Russian invasion, and now we can all use them for something much more entertaining.

Well, at least not exactly…

Canadian photographer Ulric Collette brought brothers, sisters, parents and their children together for these face mashing pictures. Each portrait is split between two family faces to create scarily similar portraits.

Cousins: Justine, 29, & Ulric, 29

Andy Warhol, an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker snapped numerous portraits of actors, singers and fashion designers from 1970 to 1987. 

The photographer Sander Koot took old photos of these people and reproduced them by having the people mimic the poses.

Los Angeles based photographer Ejen Chuang took these high quality photographs of comic book and anime convention participants. There are apparently men and women alike who spend a tremendous amount of time, energy and money creating and wearing these costumes.

These large-scale wall portraits were created by street artist Vhils. His chipped works are brilliant.

Have you ever wondered what Natalie Portman, Drew Barrymore or Brad Pitt would look like living in the Renaissance era? These beautiful renderings of modern actors and singers inhabiting the 14th through 17th centuries might make you wish you had lived during those times.

Jennifer Aniston

Don’t these real school photos make you want to revisit your junior high and high school days? It is hard to fathom what these kids were thinking when they posed with a cat, a keyboard, shirtless and in a variety of hideous outfits. Sometimes youth is not wasted on the young.

I’m with the band.

All these photo portraits have one thing in common. They are part of the project “Echoism” that focuses on facial symmetry. The subjects were pictured front to carema. As a part of the study, they were asked not to express emotions. Then each photograph was split into a left and a right section with one side to be horizontally flipped, afterwards pictures were recombined to create two separate and symmetrical identities of the person.

These are self portraits of a person who is using some rather dangerous drugs. They are all there and they are an amazing array of drugs. Some are legal pharmaceuticals and some are illegal street drugs. The self portraits speak for themselves.

This is a collection of amazing celebrity portraits by Amercan photographer George Holz who has been known in photography for over 30 years.

All these people seem to be so happy when smiling for their booking photograph. I wonder why.

These are some amazing portraits of celebrities. Many of them are in black and white which is known to show more emotion. The portraits were done by celebrity photographer, Andrew McPherson. They are quite remarkable.

Ordinary things can form amazing portraits when arranged in a particular order by genius artists.

These incredible child portraits were taken by a photographer named Akval. They catch these children doing what they do best, being themselves. The clarity and attention to detail make them absolutely beautiful.

These bright works of art belong to Kyle Lambert, 23, who recently graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University where he studied illustration and animation. He's great at creating celebs' portraits of striking likeness with the help of Apple IPad, iPad app Brushes in particular, which costs just £4.99. 

See how these amazing portraits are created step by step.

These are dazzling examples of digital portraits of men that look very realistic. I think it is difficult to capture male beauty, but these artists have succeeded in digital art like no one else. Talented and gorgeous paintings will surely draw your attention, as all these portraits show either famous men or simply handsome and sexy guys.

Other examples of beautiful digital paintings:

Amazing Examples of Hyper Realistic Paintings (18 pics)

Hyper Realistic Human Portraits (14 pics)

10 Pictures You Won’t Believe Are Paintings

Josh Holloway

These graffiti portraits are simply stunning.

Somebody likes to take pictures of nature. Others enjoy taking pictures of themselves, their family and friends. But there are people like Danny Santos II who shoot strangers on the city streets. This photographer lives in Singapore. So far he has about 65 portraits of strangers, but his goal is to create about 100 portraits. You can see the best of his works after the jump.