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, ...

A stunning graphite pencil sketch captures the iconic return of a supermodel, showcasing the creative process behind fashion illustration. Discover the techniques and insights that bring elegance and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patient artist Paul Lung spends up to 60 hours sketching incredibly detailed pictures of his subjects with just a single pencil. 01 September 2009 • 1:03pm Believe it or not these portraits are not ...

WE’VE been putting pencil to paper to write and draw for centuries. But it turns out that the marks we have been making with graphite pencils contain minuscule flakes of a two-dimensional material ...