What Is Pencil Drawing?
Among all the artistic media, pencil drawing stands out as one of the simplest, yet most varied. Artists use everything from graphite pencils, to charcoals and pastels, in capturing the emotional response that they want to evoke from their viewers. As with other media, no single school of thought has predominated for long, yet the range of sub-genres available in pencil drawing is staggering–ranging from caricature and cartooning, to pure doodling and the more complex designs associated with commercial art. At some time period or other, nearly every great artist has produced notable works in pencil–which only further underlines its universal appeal.
