Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Jesse Lane

Jesse Lane an American artist who works of hyper-realistic portraits with colored pencils on bristol boards, and is known as one of the world’s finest colored-pencil artists.Lane is a graduate of Texas A&M University, and studied art in Italy. He also has a teaching credential from Sam Houston University.Lane discovered colored pencils while struggling in school with the challenges of dyslexia.“Growing up, I often felt alone,” the artist says. “I desperately wanted to find a place in life where I didn’t feel inferior. For years, I bottled up my feelings.“Then I realized they could be a source of inspiration. I began creating images of personal struggle and intimate emotion.”Each of his rich, detailed portraits takes 300 to 1,000 hours to complete.

“The theme of my work is our common odyssey of personal struggle. This struggle is universal, but unique to each of us.“Every image I create has a story.”

You can see more of  Jesse Lane’s amazing drawings at https://www.jesselaneart.com/. You can also check into his online video courses available at https://jesse-lane-art.teachable.com/.