The most realistic pencil drawings, or hyperrealistic pencil drawings, can sometimes be hard to believe. But a skillful use of shading and the representation of extremely fine details in pencil really ...

Not quite an example of winning through intimidation, the exhibition “Drawing Surrealism” partly persuades through the sheer volume of its offerings — distinctive, once wildly avant-garde and now ...

Charles Steffen, “Untitled” (1995), graphite and colored pencils on taped paper, 18 x 26 1/4 inches (45.72 x ∼66.68 cm) (all photos Natalie Weis/Hyperallergic) In 1950, the year after he began his ...

When Mathieu Larone was a kid, cartoons were the lingua franca. They were ambient and they were everywhere. Bugs Bunny, Fred Flintstone, Garfield — even a generation or two past their debuts, they ...

Seamlessly matching sketching with real life settings these remarkable and colourful images are known as 'Pencil Vs Camera'. Created this year by Belgian artist Ben Heine, the surreal and amusing ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Surrealism is a condition, a sensibility, a political attitude. It was also a movement whose only goal ...