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 ...

2014 has been a watershed year for touch-sensitive pen devices. The pen, the pencil, the stylus, all have a long history in human creativity. Technologists have been intent on capturing that output ...

Everyone has their own way of decompressing. Mine is drawing. Specifically, it’s drawing to the soothing sounds of Bill Callahan with a Modelo Especial or a cup of mint tea by my side. Like yoga or ...

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 ...

My daughter Anna can spend hours painting and drawing if she has all the material needed to create. She loves everything that involves crayons, pencils, watercolors, and Play Doh and she wants me to ...