At best it was a long shot, but a shot worth taking nonetheless. So, Eli Waduba, a Nigeria-based pencil artist put out ... to say he’d buy the portraits and commission Waduba for three more.

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She's what kept me in drawing, too." Hall's journey back to art – he now creates pencil portraits full-time – blended with his love for sports and sparked the idea for realistic drawings.

Kirk Demarais's online gallery of colored pencil portraits of TV and movie families is great. You're going to like it, I pretty much promise, though I don't even know you at all, so definitely no ...