Samuel Silva (born 1983) [1] is a lawyer from Portugal whose ball point pen drawings received "viral" recognition in 2012. He lives and works in the United Kingdom. [2] [3] [4]
Silva was born in Portugal, [5] and started drawing at the age of two, He continued to draw throughout his childhood and teenage years. He attended Law School [6] and has been practicing law since 2007. [7] He has no formal art training.
Silva began posting scans of his drawings on the website Deviant Art. [8] In 2012 his realistic art [9] created with ballpoint pens [10] and received attention from a number of news outlets and magazines around the world, including the Toledo Free Press, [5] the Huffington Post, the Herald, and Scientific American. [2]
Silva's drawings are created with cross-hatching and minute detail, and are sometimes mistaken for photographs. [11] His drawings are recreations of existing photographs.