Drawing Facts

A standard No. 2 pencil can draw a continuous line approximately 3.8 miles long, though the commonly claimed figure of 35 miles has been debunked through actual testing.

In Ice Age, the drawings of characters during the end credit roll - and Sid's drawing of himself on a wall - were all done by the children of the animators.

Terry Crews worked as a courtroom sketch artist in Flint before the NFL. He won a scholarship to study at the Interlochen Arts Academy. He then entered Western Michigan on an art scholarship, before switching to football. When teams cut him from NFL rosters, he painted portraits of teammates - charging $5,000 each. The muscle-bound action star is a trained, photorealistic portrait artist.