Hyperrealistic pencil art has reached a point where it is virtually indistinguishable from a camera lens, capturing every fine line and shadow with stunning accuracy. Whether they are capturing a ...

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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 ...

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 only guests to appear in artist Sharon Hester’s dining room are a smidge on the wild side. The table is set with rows of colored and graphite pencils and sheets of paper — a makeshift studio space ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock the secrets of hyper-realistic drawing in this detailed step-by-step tutorial. Learn how to create lifelike portraits ...

In Jeremy Osborne’s hands, colored pencils cease being a child’s art utensil. For some reason, the St. Peter artist has noticed a certain aversion to his medium of choice. As watercolors and pastels ...