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 ...

Even in chilly upstate New York, nature artist Carol Coogan tries to sketch outdoors whenever she can. Carol writes and illustrates a weekly column for my local newspaper called "Backyard Naturalist." ...

With a few basic tips you can begin to draw the creatures around you, and remember the joy they bring. By Clare Walker Leslie If you enjoy watching birds floating by or chipmunks scampering across ...

Mexican artist Oskar Laffont is exhibiting his work at a gallery in the centre of town, and Londonist popped in last night to meet him as part of the impressive Fitzrovia Lates series of gallery ...

Sketching is an expressive activity that enables people to manifest their emotions and artistic imagination. It is a talent that can be honed through practice, however, employing the right instruments ...

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 ...

This month’s Share your art project is pencil drawings. Submit yours now and we’ll add them to the line-up The beautiful complexity of pencil drawing has been explored by artists from Louise Bourgeois ...

Lloyd Rees struggled to become the artist of renown. The spectre of death shook his ambition, in a world already indifferent to his painting. Pencil drawing would divine his psychological road back to ...