The main room at Graphite Arts Center was quiet as a library Tuesday evening as 40 people watched Urban Sketchers founder ...

Here’s a full look at a new A2 graphite pencil drawing (42 × 59.4 cm) created on smooth, heavy-weight cartridge paper. This ...

This video walks through the process of adding realistic eye details to a graphite pencil drawing. Watch as each step is ...

Thinking of a new hobby or maybe even a side hustle? Consider drawing graphite portraits. Editor’s note: Some finds are simply too good not to share. Let us guide you on some of the best deals out ...

A class of fifth-graders from Green Acres Elementary in Lebanon, Ore., asked us to find out how pencil lead is made. That quest took us all the way back to the dawn of the universe and then all the ...

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 ...

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 ...