An amazing video has emerged from China of an artist engraving spectacularly detailed portraits onto chicken eggs.

In the footage, captured at his home in Chongqing earlier this month, 62-year-old Guan Qingsheng can be seen using a pencil, a knife and a piece of wire to engrave life-like portraits of famous Chinese politicians onto eggs.

According to local news reports, the artist used to work as a designer at a wood production factory and started engraving eggs as a hobby in 2002.

He has since created almost a thousand egg portraits, including engravings of Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Stalin.

While the average time to draw a male portrait is up to four hours, Guan Qingsheng says female portraits require twice as much effort and often don’t come out as well - which remains a bit of a frustration.

An amazing video has emerged from China of an artist engraving spectacularly detailed portraits onto chicken eggs.

In the footage, captured at his home in Chongqing earlier this month, 62-year-old Guan Qingsheng can be seen using a pencil, a knife and a piece of wire to engrave life-like portraits of famous Chinese politicians onto eggs.

According to local news reports, the artist used to work as a designer at a wood production factory and started engraving eggs as a hobby in 2002.

He has since created almost a thousand egg portraits, including engravings of Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Stalin.

While the average time to draw a male portrait is up to four hours, Guan Qingsheng says female portraits require twice as much effort and often don’t come out as well - which remains a bit of a frustration.