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 ...

Want to create a stunning pencil drawing from a regular photo? In this easy Photoshop tutorial, we’ll walk you through every ...

A Tommy's drawings showing life on the front line during the First World War are set to be published for the first time. Lieutenant Morris Meredith Williams was a talented artist and filled 15 ...

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 ...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal's ink and pencil drawing of injured Purkinje neurons, created in 1914. (Courtesy of Instituto Cajal) Are our brains beautiful? Not just figuratively, for what they can do, but ...

They are images that have to be seen to be believed. With little more than vintage lead pencils and a ruler, London artist Kelly Wallace creates line drawings that are both incredibly realistic and ...

Armed with a his fine-tipped pen and an uber-sharp pencil, Mazer gets to work using graph paper and a straight edge. Combining strokes of black pen and graphite, the artist creates realistic urban ...