Kelvin Okafor is using his latest exhibition, “Drawing Awareness,” to call attention to different skin conditions, with portraits of people including model Winnie Harlow and singer Seal.

Known for his hyper-realistic pencil artworks, Kelvin Okafor is using his latest exhibition to call attention to visible skin differences. “Drawing Awareness,” at London’s Hope93 Gallery ...

The Colored Pencil Society of America San Diego Chapter has a free art exhibit in the Pacific Beach Library through Aug. 9.

— G. K. Chesterton Consider the pencil. The ubiquitous, yellow (mostly), 7-inch, two-for-a-quarter lead pencil — the simplest, most convenient, least expensive of all writing instruments.

A well-dressed man sitting across from me was drawing with a pencil in a large, spiral-bound sketchbook. A young boy carrying a box of candy approached him, hoping for a sale or donation.