This video focuses on the final finishing touches of a graphite pencil eye drawing. See how subtle shading, contrast ...

This recent process video documents the creation of a large 70×100 cm illustration made with graphite pencil on smooth ...

Happy new year! January is here. The air feels colder and the bare branches silhouette look as if they were drawn with a ...

Keith Haring, “Untitled” (1980), brush and sumi ink. Gift of the Keith Haring Foundation (all images courtesy the Morgan Library & Museum, New York) Ten years ago, the Morgan Library & Museum decided ...

If you ever asked me to define what a pencil is, I might say “Well, it’s a writing or drawing tool with a stick of graphite ...

Sometime between 1500 and 1565 a large graphite deposit was discovered in Cumbria, England. Because the graphite was extremely pure and solid it could easily be sawed into sticks. The graphite was ...

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 ...

Many artists have used pencils to create works of art - but Dalton Ghetti creates miniature masterpieces on the tips of pencils Credit: DALTON GHETTI / SOLENT NEWS Dalton, who works as a carpenter, ...