Howard Lee is a popular artist known for his hyperrealistic depictions of everyday objects. Now he is creating simpler illusions using just pencil and paper. Although simple, there is a mystery to how ...

If you want to see a rigid pencil turn to rubber, just ask an elementary-school student. In a favorite playground trick, an amateur magician picks up a pencil near the tip and lightly jiggles the ...

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 ...

J.D. Hillberry's trompe l'oeil pencil-and-charcoal drawings have caused confusion at more than one art festival. It's not called trompe l'oeil (trick the eye) for nothing. "A group of people were ...

Anamorphic drawings are two-dimensional drawings that, when viewed from a single point of view, seem to leap off the page. Graphic artist Alessandro Diddi has mastered them. Diddi is an Italian ...

Optical Illusion for Testing Your IQ: An optical illusion is a mind-bending, deeply fascinating, shape-shifting image of an object or drawing, or people that challenge the brain’s way of perceiving ...