Perhaps we’re biased, but there’s a unique beauty to drawing pencils that isn’t matched by your everyday writing pencil. Usually painted in a pleasing color and embossed with their name and grade, ...

A jar of graphite powder, a dry brush and an eraser serve as her tools. The paper, her canvas. As Melissa Cooke Benson dusts thin layers of graphite onto the surface, not a single pencil mark is used ...