Not everyone can take a blank sheet of paper and turn it into a stunningly realistic animal portrait. It takes an artist with ...

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In fact, it's not even a photo of a blob of paint. It's a colored-pencil drawing. CJ Hendry: I just kind of sit here and doodle around and just draw a little bit. Narrator: That's CJ Hendry.

Closely examining creatures in cages, he turned them into illustrations with crayons and pencils. He began to draw pictures with colored pencils in his second year at high school, when Otomi was ...