Got a new Apple Pencil? Once the initial novelty wears off, you might find that it spends most of its time magnetically clipped to the side of your iPad Pro or, worse, stuck in the back of a drawer.

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 ...

Not everyone can take a blank sheet of paper and turn it into a stunningly realistic animal portrait. It takes an artist with a sharp eye for detail and the skill to capture the lifelike essence of ...

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 ...

Created for Wallpaper’s ‘Handmade issue’, these fun portraits are depictions of the contributors to the edition, and portray their subtle impressions with just a few precisely placed layers of pencil ...

20-year-old self-taught illustrator Heather Rooney has an uncanny ability to capture people’s faces in photorealistic drawings made just colored pencils. So picture perfect that they look like printed ...

Think that’s a photo? Look again. Using only colored pencils, 20-year-old art student Heather Rooney creates stunningly life-like portraits. She’s captured the faces of friends, characters and ...