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90 Incredible Drawings and Pencil Illustrations. 387352_1303402509_large.jpg (JPEG Image, 1480x984 pixels) - Scaled (83. Insanely Detailed Artwork Created in 10 Months! Imagine taking your 0.5 mechanical pencil and drawing on a large piece of white paper for 10 hours a day, seven days a week, over a course of 10 full months. Think you'd give up after a few hours or maybe even a few days? Well, it's safe to say that most people would. Then again, most people aren't like Joe Fenton... Aptly titled Solitude, the personal project stands an astounding 5 ft high and 8 ft across. Fenton worked out all of the elements on a small scale first, then pieced his images together "like a jigsaw puzzle" by tracking his line drawings onto the final white paper.

After working with graphite, he finished it all off with acrylic and ink. "It took courage to start it as I had never done anything that size before," he tells us. Inspired by the large scale work of pop surreal artist Todd Schorr, Fenton knew he could tackle this project. "This might seem strange," he explains, "as I am not a religious person. Joe Fenton's website and Behance. Amazing Paintings from Leonid Afremov.