Colored pencils often produce grainy or uneven textures when technique and layering are overlooked during the drawing process ...

HAMAMATSU--From one angle, it’s a glass bottle of Coca Cola lying on a piece of paper. But when seen from the side, there is just a thin sheet of paper with nothing on it. The illustration, drawn with ...

Colored pencils allow artists to build rich shading, layered colors, and detailed character features. Careful blending and controlled strokes can give illustrations greater depth and visual expression ...

Remember the joy of getting a fresh new pack of colored pencils when you were a kid? The artistic possibilities! You were going to make masterpieces with those things, weren’t you? Unfortunately, ...

In Margaret Hopkins’s “Focus,” a woman wields a large camera while three other women behind her gaze at a smartphone, probably eyeing the product of a built-in camera. If that seems an odd vignette to ...

To find his subject, artist Phil Schorn looks for leaves. The more colorful and intricate-looking they are, the better. That’s because, for Schorn, art is in the details. His colored pencil drawings ...

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 ...