His latest project, a portrait of Michael Jordan taking flight in the 1988 NBA dunk contest, took him 250 hours to create. After the drawing was shared through social media, Hall's website crashed.

We asked 12 professional artists about the pencils they use for sketching, doodling, laying out, and putting the finishing touches on their artwork. Their picks include Staedtler, BIC Mechanical ...

Photo: Michael Hession. Who doesn’t love a good pencil? For drawing, some soft-lead Derwent Graphic Pencils will keep your strokes creamy and dark. Though they’re not as stylish as the pricey ...

When it comes to daily writing and drawing, one writer’s go-to pencil, the one she’d take to a desert island, is actually a Prismacolor Premier black colored pencil, which never smudges on the ...