French photographer and illustrator Sarah Esteje, illustrates these realistic portraits of animals using nothing more than a standard Bic pen. You can learn a bit more about the artist over on Beware and click through the drawings below to see some larger versions.
Artist Lisa Nilsson creates beautiful anatomical cross sections of the human body by rolling and shaping narrow strips of Japanese mulberry paper in a technique called paper filigree or quilling. Nilsson talks about her “Tissue Series” in an interview with All Things Paper.