The most realistic pencil drawings, or hyperrealistic pencil drawings, can sometimes be hard to believe. But a skillful use of shading and the representation of extremely fine details in pencil really ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Because they are erasable, pencils are often the first tool creative people use when sketching out a ...

The lowly pencil is not an elite or showy artistic medium. It doesn't have oil paint's gravitas, or plaster's endearing gauche. Instead, the pencil is accessible, plebeian and utilitarian. If put in ...

Gilly Cullen, a young Irish visual artist, creates pencil drawings so vivid they could almost be photographs. Her works to-date include vivid renderings of family and friends (as well as professional ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- When was the last time you used a No.2 pencil? If it's been a while, you may be surprised to find that one area artist uses pencils almost every day. It's her passion to show ...

Once upon a time, pencil art was merely seen as a form of doodling, sketching or just the first phase of creating a ‘real’ work of art. An artist might outline his or her concept of what they planned ...

These mind-bending works of art have been so cleverly constructed they allow the artist himself to feature in the picture. Exploiting a particular optical illusion, Ben Heine appears as though he is ...

Eli Waduba Yusuf has brokered a deal with Kevin Hart for the pencil drawing. A Nigerian artist may have struck gold after one of his hyperrealism pencil drawings went viral and caught the attention of ...