Don’t forget to scroll down to the bottom of the post to get a video of my tips for using colored pencils. I think they’ll come in hardy for you. I’ve been coloring for nearly a year now!

In fact, it's not even a photo of a blob of paint. It's a colored-pencil drawing. CJ Hendry: I just kind of sit here and doodle around and just draw a little bit. Narrator: That's CJ Hendry.

His amazingly lifelike pictures rendered with colored pencils include felines with mesmerizing eyes. Otomi, 22, is a college student here whose real name is Haruki Kudo (Otomi is his name as an ...