FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens. These amazing illustrations were created by Portuguese solicitor and artist Samuel Silva, who has had a strong interest in drawing since he was two years old. ‘I have been interested in drawing since the very first time I ever touched a pencil and a sheet of paper, when I was two years old.’ says 31 year old Samuel, now of London. ‘After that day, I never stopped drawing. Unlike most children, I didn’t start by scribbling; I just instinctively drew straight away.
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .