the earliest of which are 42,000-year old charcoal drawings of seals found in Spain. Blombos Cave in South Africa, where the ochre drawing was discovered, has turned up dozens of ancient human ...

He added: 'Charcoal has always been a love ... people because they are the subject we relate to the most. 'I make art for human beings so I draw human beings.' ...

A Scottish artist has produced an astonishingly lifelike collection of portraits using nothing more than charcoal ... human experience, to show who we really are. Mr McDougall, 50, learned to draw ...

Then take the black and the violent image, and draw it with layer ... not only images of human-driven horrors but also beautiful depictions of the natural world. Charcoal is burnt; it is ash.

This talented artist embarked on a journey to re-create a photograph on paper using charcoal pencils. She made the re-creation the same size as the original photograph. The result was fantastic.

Now, updated analysis of the cave walls suggests that these images stand among the earliest traces of human creativity, dating back between 52,000 and 40,000 years ago. That makes the cave art ...