Sketching is an expressive activity that enables people to manifest their emotions and artistic imagination. It is a talent that can be honed through practice, however, employing the right instruments ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Because they are erasable, pencils are often the first tool creative people use when sketching out a ...

An exhibition at the Drawing Center looks at how artists have used the pencil to envision their freedom during captivity. By Hilarie M. Sheets Valentino Dixon served more than 26 years in prison for a ...

We’ve already seen a pen with silver-based ink, that lets its user draw electrical circuits on ordinary paper. Now, scientists from MIT have brought similar “hands on” technology to the humble pencil ...

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 ...

New sensors being researched for a future Apple Pencil could allow users to use the device to trace both 2D and 3D objects, and send the data back to a connected iPad or Mac. Following multiple patent ...

If you had to build a guitar from scratch, what types of materials would you use? Plywood? Plastic? Wire? As Design You Trust reports, a YouTuber who goes by the name of Burls Art threw the manual out ...