When talking about hobbies, interests, etc. it's pretty usual, I think, to
nominalize string of words chained by particles. For example drawing pictures
is 「絵を描く」or playing soccer is 「サッカーをする」. If one of my hobbies is drawing
pictures, I can say, for example (please correct the sentence if it's wrong):

> 絵 **を** 描くのは一つの楽しみなんです。

However, I noticed that for such patterns, particles can usually be replaced
with 「の」like:

> 絵 **の** 描くのは一つの楽しみなんです。

I can't think of more complex examples that I'm very sure of but, for example
when speaking about drawing using pencils, we say 「えんぴつで絵を描く」. However, when
speaking about drawing with pencils, if I understand correctly, we can also
use the pattern 「えんぴつの絵の描く事は〜」.

What are the grammar rules behind these? To be honest, I'm not sure if this
question even has basis (because I'm not so sure about my examples), so please
enlighten me on this.
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grammar words particles particle-の
When can or should I substitute other particles with 「の」 during nominalization?
In subordinate clauses like these, _ONLY_ が can be replaced by の (and only
when the verb follows immediately after, to prevent confusion with the other
Noun+の+Noun meaning). を, で, and other particles cannot be replaced by の in
subordinate clauses. For example:

> ○ 私 **が** 作った料理 → 私 **の** 作った料理  
>  ○ 木村 **が** 買った本 → 木村 **の** 買った本

The phrase「絵の描くのは」is valid if the picture is the one drawing, not being drawn
(which does not make sense).「えんぴつの絵の描く事は」looks crazy does not make sense. It
looks like "the action of the pencil's picture's drawing".
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