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 ...

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 ...

To find his subject, artist Phil Schorn looks for leaves. The more colorful and intricate-looking they are, the better. That’s because, for Schorn, art is in the details. His colored pencil drawings ...

At Galerie Eva Presenhuber, a new cycle of drawing reveals the singular role of drawing in the practice of Austrian artist ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anamorphic drawings are two-dimensional drawings that, when viewed from a single point of view, seem to leap off the page. Graphic artist Alessandro Diddi has mastered them. Diddi is an Italian ...

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 ...

Now that Apple Stores are beginning to receive more reliable Apple Pencil shipments, some early adopters of the iPad Pro have been able to purchase the accessory over the past week and put it to the ...