Believe it or not, the painting above features three naked women. Craig Tracy is famous for his beautifully realistic paintings using human bodies, and this painting of a South China Tiger is definitely no exception. Craig was asked to create this painting to increase awareness of the endangered animal and he immediately responded yes. You can see the process he used to create the tiger below.

Smug One is a British street artist who creates incredibly realistic yet highly stylized graffiti paintings. He creates some incredibly beautiful work of women, famous character portraits, and bizarre/humorous scenes. You can check out a large gallery of his work on Flickr.

Here's a mixture of some of Hanneke Treffers' ,aka Handiedan, work. There are some drawings and mixed media pieces  here, but my favorites are the digital art collages. There's just something very unique and interesting about these pieces. All the elements are carefully placed to create some awesome images.

Loving this advertisement for Carnevale by Mohanad Shuraideh. It effectively portrays the spirit and wonder of Carneval and it makes great use of bold colors. You might remember his work from the Burjuman Advertisement.