J.D. Hillberry is a skilled graphite/charcoal pencil artist that’s recently gained significant recognition for his many works. I favor J.D. Hillberry’s pieces that focus on trompe l’oeil, an artwork that deals with fooling the viewer’s eye by making drawn  2-D representations of objects actually look  three-dimensional. One of my favorite pieces is “Escher’s Nightmare,” a drawing based on a lithograph done by M. C. Escher entitled “Hands Drawing Hands”. However, in Hillberry’s drawing, instead of the hands working as a team to create each other, his version depicts one hand attempting to destroy its creator. Everything in the drawing is drawn using carbon, graphite, and charcoal.