It’s a complaint many an art teacher is all too familiar with. Perhaps you had the same thought upon discovering that our topic this month is astronomical sketching. Sketching at the eyepiece isn’t as ...

Discover the basics of creating a landscape scene using just pencils in this accessible art demonstration. Whether you are new to drawing or looking for inspiration, this short video shows simple ...

Competition: we’ve teamed up with BIS Publishers to give away five copies of Sketching, the Basics by Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur. The 184-page hardback book explains basic sketching techniques and ...

Perhaps we’re biased, but there’s a unique beauty to drawing pencils that isn’t matched by your everyday writing pencil. Usually painted in a pleasing color and embossed with their name and grade, ...

Got a new Apple Pencil? Once the initial novelty wears off, you might find that it spends most of its time magnetically clipped to the side of your iPad Pro or, worse, stuck in the back of a drawer.

Easily capture the elegance of a stainless teapot using nothing but a mechanical pencil and smart realism techniques. In this ...

Pencil is a very realistic sketching program and good 2D animation tool for the cost (free). Think of Pencil (free) as an animator’s digital sketchbook. It’s 2D; you can sketch things very well, then ...