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Julian Beever likes to draw on sidewalks, but no one would call it graffiti. That's because he creates not only nicely rendered portraits and self-portraits, but also "anamorphic illusions," distortedly drawn to create an impression of three dimensions when seen from a particular point of view. His pavement drawings feature mostly commercial work, like ads for television election coverage in the UK and a particular brand of pastels. The illusions, which range from the whimsical to the truly disorienting, work only when seen from one specific perspective; viewed from anywhere else, they look like the work of a lunatic art-school drop-out. But if you do happen to stroll by one of Beever's drawings at just the right angle, you might find yourself asking, "Is this the real thing?"

Thats cool, it'd be awsome to go see his work. I was looking at the pics thinking no way, that has to be real and not chalk!! The man has some serious talent!

Oh yes he does, there are images he has of while he's doing it and afterwards and taken from other views so you can see that its not fake at all, he's done it for magz and some other things if I recall right. I think my fave one is the one with him diggy for gold -chuckles- it was great. Though he has a batman or is a spiderman one as well that's really cool. Oh and in one of his works people litterly thought their was huge hole in the ground and they walk around it. But he gets in trouble too for doing it sometimes.