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 ...

From afar, these images look like black and white photographs, and up close, they might appear to be the work of digital enhancement. In fact, these exquisite portraits and still lifes are simply the ...

These hyper-realistic images may look like professional photographs but they are painstakingly-detailed drawings - created with charcoal. Artist Dylan Eakin draws the intricate and incredibly lifelike ...

Malaysian artist Monica Lee's drawings are so real they look like they must have been captured by a camera, something that isn't surprising considering her roots. The artist fell in love with ...

This talented artist sketches picture-perfect pencil portraits - and says you can master them too. Emma Towers-Evans from West Midlands in England was inspired to pick up her pencil and draw Orcas ...

These are stunning hyper-realistic pencil drawings that can take up to 100 hours to complete - but the artist insists anyone can master the skill. Emma often completes the drawings on a large A1 or A0 ...

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 ...