This video focuses on the final finishing touches of a graphite pencil eye drawing. See how subtle shading, contrast ...

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 ...