No matter how many amazing advances are made with digital art mediums, you can’t quite beat the tactile sensation of good old-fashioned colour pencil.  But you may not have thought of using them to create art in the way the crazy team at Advertising Served have conjured up…

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Faber-Castell Premium Pencil Art

To celebrate the highly revered range of ‘Artist Colour Pencils’ from Faber-Castell, they have painstakingly re-created famous masterpieces using pencils in a totally unconventional way – with the pencils taking centre stage as the medium itself! You’ve never seen Vincent Van Gogh's ‘Terrace Cafe at Night’ or Edvard Munch's ‘The Scream’ like this before.

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Makes you wonder how else coloured pencils and different types of stationary can be appropriated for art and advertising campaigns.

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The Working Process!

We dare you not to be impressed by the ‘making of’ video.
Faber-Castell are one of the world’s oldest and most renowned suppliers of pencils and art supplies, and with a reputation dating back to the 1760s, they’re showing no signs of backing down in the digital age.

Images first seen on website: http://www.advertisingserved.com/gallery/The-Art-of-Colour-Pencils/3777644?adbid=617863055565697024&adbpl=tw&adbpr=9313022&scid=social48306406