The only tool they used to create this magnificent piece of art was pencils. Their skilled hands used the pencil to create a shading effect, giving the portrait a realistic look. *The underlying ...

She's what kept me in drawing, too." Hall's journey back to art – he now creates pencil portraits full-time – blended with his love for sports and sparked the idea for realistic drawings.

“I love creating one of a kind family portraits ... draw the viewer into a piece of art, using different textures, tones, subtle shading, and determined pencil lines. For me, detail is everything.

He uses additive and subtractive techniques, shading along contour lines and between roads, producing highly original portraits ... at Cardiff School of Art and Design. The artist, who lives ...

Whether drawing realistic or abstract subjects, an understanding of tone, the variations of light and shade, is important. A variety of pencils are required to create a tonal study. The B range is ...