PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- When was the last time you used a No.2 pencil? If it's been a while, you may be surprised to find that one area artist uses pencils almost every day. It's her passion to show ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Luvamiart Valladolid Luvamiart Valladolid is an illustrator and author who has worked 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 ...

Asking scientists what career they would have pursued if they hadn’t gone into science is a crapshoot: It can either stop the conversation cold or uncork misty-eyed reminiscences about the road not ...

A Baghdad shop, home to a million pencils, has become a global sensation after an Indian content creator, Ankita Kumari, shared her discovery on Instagram. Ali Al Mandlawi, the shop's owner, has spent ...