Background
Silva was born in Portugal, and started drawing at the age of two, He continued to draw throughout his childhood and teenage years.
Silva was born in Portugal, and started drawing at the age of two, He continued to draw throughout his childhood and teenage years.
He lives and works in the United Kingdom. He attended Law School and has been practicing law since 2007. He has no formal art training.
Silva began posting scans of his drawings on the website Deviant Artist
In 2012 his realistic art created with ballpoint pens and received attention from a number of news outlets and magazines around the world, including the Toledo Free Press, the Huffington Post, the Herald, and Scientific American. Silva"s drawings are created with cross-hatching and minute detail, and are sometimes mistaken for photographs.
His drawings are recreations of existing photographs.