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, ...

For simplicity, I tend to use a #2 graphite pencil for most of my deep-sky drawings. After all, a pencil and paper are all that’s really needed to record an observation. Is a minimalist approach the ...

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 ...

RAYMOND -- To celebrate National Art Month, artist Ann Perkins will be teaching Basic Techniques of graphite pencil drawing and colored pencil painting for the month of October at the Ace Hardware and ...

Though simple in appearance, the pencil is one of the most enduring and versatile writing tools in history. It has accompanied artists, students, architects, and writers for centuries, quietly shaping ...

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 ...