I was always wondering why we still see black and white artwork and photography in the age of millions of colors and HD technologies. I tried to answer this question based on my love to black and white photography and apply the answer to any black and white art. The black and white artwork takes you beyond the shapes and colors to give you dramatic effect using shadows even more than lines.

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Pencil drawing is one of the oldest forms of art that is using different type of pencil that varies in hardness and softness from H9 to B9. The “H” represents the hardness and “B” represents the blackness or the darkness. H9 pens are themost hardest pencils and B9 are themost darkness pencils. HB is in the middle level. However, the full range on pencils is H9, H8, H7, H6, H5, H4, H3, H2, H, HB, B, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7, B8.

Drawing with pencil implement many methods to create different effect and styles. For example, you can choose either to draw with shades or lines or both. Here I would like to share with you some really creative pencil drawings by different artists, each of these artists has his or her own style and way to draw with pencils. So, I hope you like it and comment with you best drawings.

Roxana1890

Roxana’s work is marked with the wonderful ability to use shades to give the character the depth.

Daan Noppen

Daan is a great artist that uses different direction of lines drawing.

Olga (Olechka) Shvartsur

Olga is a really talented artist. Olga uses shades and lines to produce a really realistic depth effect with every possible detail.

T. S. Abe

While most artists use pencil drawings to mimic the real characters, T.S. Abe has a special school of drawing that merges between characters and  different artwork motives.

Osm

Osm uses pencil and charcoal to create very personal artwork that reminds me with the impressionism art school.

Liza Corbett

Liza is using other colors than just black and white to amuse us with special taste of art.

Ryan Riegner

This amazing work by Ryan shows a real talent of the use of pencil drawing to create such dramatic effect.

Scott Hassell

Scott uses the shades more than lines, and his artwork is remarked with soft degrees and shades.

Ewa Ludwiczak

Ewa is using the soft shades and merely no lines, which blend the artwork options.

Theartyst

This drawing is one of a kind through using the lines milted with the paper color itself.

Haydex Li

The shadows and dark pencil degrees in Haydex are amazing and give s a very special taste.