Happy new year! January is here. The air feels colder and the bare branches silhouette look as if they were drawn with a ...

From early cave painters to Pablo Picasso to Roberto Longo, artists have long loved the expressive potential of a soft charcoal pencil or crayon. Each sweep of charcoal offers intense black color and ...

Coloured pencils can be blended on the page and their tone can be altered by pressure. Some coloured pencils are water-soluble. Water can be brushed over them, or they can be used on wet paper to ...

From afar, these images look like black and white photographs, and up close, they might appear to be the work of digital enhancement. In fact, these exquisite portraits and still lifes are simply the ...

Anime and manga have a very distinct style due to the tools and drawing techniques used. Some people prefer to draw using apps or anime drawing software, while others prefer more traditional media ...

While talking to a bunch of artists I admire for a piece about the best drawing pencils, it became clear that, for the most part, the relationship between artist and drawing tool is as personal as ...

The Brooklyn native first heard of Pratt when a teacher in his first year of high school encouraged him to apply to the Pratt Young Scholars program. He showed up to the interview with his sketchbook, ...

In our late capitalist age of industrial fabrication and reproducible art, Myron Stout stands out as a reclusive figure who was never lured by these strategies. With monkish devotion, he produced a ...

A class of fifth-graders from Green Acres Elementary in Lebanon, Ore., asked us to find out how pencil lead is made. That quest took us all the way back to the dawn of the universe and then all the ...