<p>These are stunning hyper-realistic pencil drawings that can take up 100 hours to complete - but the artist insists anyone can master the skill if they put in the practice. </p><p>Emma Towers-Evans, 29, first picked up a pencil when she was just two years old and said her love for drawing began after watching the film ‘Free Willy’ when she was inspired to draw killer whales. </p><p>Now she creates incredible pencil portraits of people and animals - some of which can take her up to 100 hours to complete - and that are so realistic they look like photos.</p><p>Emma often completes the drawings on a large A1 or A0 paper and estimates each piece of artwork can have upwards of 500,000 individual pencil strokes. </p><p>She shares her incredible creations on TikTok and has racked up 264.9k followers and an impressive 4.5million likes on her videos. </p><p>In some of popular videos she can been seen drawing portraits of well-known celebrities like Rhianna and Taylor Swift. </p><p>The self-taught artist insists ‘anyone’ can master the craft if they put in the hours after she saw her own skills improve after years of practice.</p>
