She's what kept me in drawing, too." Hall's journey back to art – he now creates pencil portraits full-time – blended with his love for sports and sparked the idea for realistic drawings.

"I stopped drawing for about 14-15 years ... Rini's bedroom is filled with hyper-realistic images of sports icons that he sketched with little more than pencil and paper. One of his latest ...

But in the rich nearly half-century of this show's history, there are plenty of sports-related sketches to watch while ... Best line: "Shaq man, you gotta shape up. You are my emergency contact ...

Naturally the people flocked and the lone man and his pencil became overwhelmed, tired, but probably mostly just busy with other stuff. Did everyone get their sketches? Last summer one paying ...

Dear Diary: I was on the southbound 6 train in the Bronx. A well-dressed man sitting across from me was drawing with a pencil in a large, spiral-bound sketchbook. A young boy carrying a box of ...