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 ...

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Remember the joy of getting a fresh new pack of colored pencils when you were a kid? The artistic possibilities! You were going to make masterpieces with those things, weren’t you? Unfortunately, ...

ST. LOUIS - A 20-year-old illustration student in Scotland just created one of the most amazing drawings you will likely ever see. Rebecca Thomson, a self-taught artist studying at the Universty of ...

PHILADELPHIA -- When is 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. And it's her passion to show the ...

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Realism art captures incredible detail and emotion with just pencil and patience. Discover the subtle techniques and artistic ...

Eiffel Tower in a 3D pencil drawing by Muhammad Ejleh appears to emerge from inside a piece of notebook paper, Jan 22, 2014. The 20-year-old artist and architecture student from Syria creates drawings ...

Wow. Joe Fenton is an artist who does amazingly intricate drawings -- and all with just a mechanical pencil. They're going viral on Tumblr and Twitter right now so we thought we'd share them with you.

A series of pencil drawings by a north London artist has been amazing art critics. Kelvin Okafor, from Tottenham, has scooped a number of national awards and exhibited at galleries across the country.