Black & White Pencil Drawings by Kelli Swan

 
 

My creative passion is sketching and drawing with pencils ... just ordinary, everyday, graphite pencils.


I have been drawing pictures in pencil for as long as I can remember. My first subject of choice as a young girl was horses. I drew race horses, show horses, draft horses ... you name it. Years later, a love of dogs came about, and dog breeds of all types became another of my favorite drawing subjects.


While I maintain an extensive e-commerce site devoted to my horse and dog pencil drawings, few people know about my other work. I have created numerous pieces of historic black and white artwork, as well as drawings of vintage cars and vintage biplanes.


Enjoy the samples on this page and feel free to contact me any time with question about my work. I do offer custom drawings and pet portraits!

Creating Realism with Pencil Drawing

“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.”
- Joyce A. Myers

“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.”
- Robert Brault

“One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. 
- Aristotle

“If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knocks at your door, you will not be able to open the door and accept it.”
- Udana Sutta

“Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.”
 - Earl Nightingale 

“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
- Mohandas Gandhi

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
- Rumi

“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. ”
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
 Wayne Dyer 



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Samples of Black and White Pencil Drawings:

Vintage Aviation - Biplane Drawings: Waco Biplanes & Stearman Biplane






























Vintage Auto - Historic Corvette Cars:






























Historic Buildings:
Stage Coach Inn, Brecksville, Ohio &
National First Ladies Library, Canton, Ohio






























Historic Middle East Scenes: