What does it take to transform pencil marks into an impressive large-scale artwork? Explore the techniques, patience, layering, and attention to detail behind creating a drawing on an ambitious scale.

It's hard to believe what's possible with just a bit of lead and a lot of patience. Hyperrealistic pencil art has reached a point where it is virtually indistinguishable from a camera lens, capturing ...

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 ...

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 ...

One Philadelphia artist is bringing back the pencil one line at a time. 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 ...

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.