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.

The most realistic pencil drawings, or hyperrealistic pencil drawings, can sometimes be hard to believe. But a skillful use of shading and the representation of extremely fine details in pencil really ...

The lowly pencil is not an elite or showy artistic medium. It doesn't have oil paint's gravitas, or plaster's endearing gauche. Instead, the pencil is accessible, plebeian and utilitarian. If put in ...

The goal of this workshop is to move toward creating portrait drawings that are expressive and lively. You’ll learn how to uncover your subject’s unique qualities and translate them into your own ...

There are plenty of lesser-known capabilities of the Apple Pencil. You can use it to take quick notes, take screenshots with gestures, draw in emails, find lost pencil, and improve comfort and ...

"I do not draw. I cannot draw. I will never draw," writes Judy Bolton-Fasman. (Getty Images) I do not draw. I cannot draw. I will never draw. My stick figures are abstract abstractions. No neurons ...

Created for Wallpaper’s ‘Handmade issue’, these fun portraits are depictions of the contributors to the edition, and portray their subtle impressions with just a few precisely placed layers of pencil ...

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 ...