Baby

 

This is a drawing made by Efcruz. It's called "Commission Portrait" and was made with a dry media (charcoal pencil) on canson paper. it's 15" x 20".  I chose to the picture on the site that had the original photo to show how realistic the drawing is. If it was done in a liquid media, I think it would not look as great as it does. The shading is just done so well that it's just amazing.

-Tara A

Pencil Drawing

This pencil drawing by Andy Buck is done a paper. It is a picture of a little child. If this image was done in any other media then the image would not look as realistic as it does. The lines, shading, and the details using the pencil combined is what gave this image such an amazingly realistic look and such depth.

Ball Point Pen Art

This piece of art was created using a ball point pen on a piece of paper. The thing I admired most about it was that the different perspective that the image is shown. It appears as if you are looking down because of the direction the legs are shown. And how you can flatly read the writings. The pen points into the direction of the legs and they have more value which is what draws the eye to focus on them. This picture is really fascinating.
-Michelle Ketcham

Envelope Canvas

The artist Mark Powell, uses old envelopes as his canvas for creating unique and extremely realistic portraits. To create this drawings he uses only a ballpoint pen. There is great attention to detail and shading is used to create depth in the faces. He also utilizes line to capture the details.

Real or Drawn?

This drawing is created by a 17 year old, Chilean artist named Fredo. This piece seems to be drawn with charcoal, since there are chalk like shading and the black coloring is pure black. He utilizes real objects to give the drawing more levels of space and implied space. Even though the light does not provide the shadows, keeping sections of the arm lighter then others and providing a shadow were the actual light wouldn't hit manipulates your mind and tricks you into believing this is not drawn. The charcoal works great with this art, it gives it more of a mysterious creepy felling. A pencil would not give that intense black color and any liquid media like ink would warp the paper and ruin the darker sections.