The Brief Marc Brechwald spends 20–90 hours drawing photo-realistic pencil art. "I'm like, a pencil artist," he said with a smile. What they're saying:"They have to get close up, because they almost don't believe it's a pencil drawing," Brechwald said. There's spots, there's creases, there's wrinkles, there's veins, there's all sorts of things going on. I view it as a really fun challenge from a photorealistic pencil artist's perspective," Brechwald said.