It's a really bright blue color of paper that this particular sketch is on, whereas in this other sketch of trees, the paper is a blue-green, very soft,” Romaine said. Colored-pencil sketches ...

This helped me create the light beam in the pencil sketch of three-dimensional shapes and the reflections on the ceramic mug in the drawing below.

Leis, who was born in Tartu, has become the master of modern realism through his Everyday Reflections series. They are rendered in intricate detail with nothing but a graphite pencil. Leis told ...