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

Ready to meet your new creative companion? Let's dive into the 5 best mechanical drawing pencils for designers. Your next breakthrough is here. You’re staring at a blank page. Again. But this time, it ...

Photoshop cc 2017 tutorial showing how to transform photos into the look of soft graphite pencil drawings and how to replace the photos without having to redo the effects. Photo provided by and ...

Taylor Leback placed third in her first Minnesota Pheasant Stamp Contest with her graphite pencil entry, ‘Convergence of the Curious.’ Taylor Leback of Thief River Falls holds the artwork she entered ...

This story has been update to correct the origin of the word “graphite” as coming from Greek (to write = graphein) and not from Latin (= scribere). The Champlain Valley once served as a major source ...

Known for his hyper-realistic pencil artworks, Kelvin Okafor is using his latest exhibition to call attention to visible skin differences. “Drawing Awareness,” at London’s Hope93 Gallery, features ...

A man has sparked a peculiar debate online after he posted a photograph of a piece of pencil graphite stuck under his skin. Posting the above photo to the social network Reddit, user siriusfeynman ...

For more than 50 years, architectural illustrator Frank Costantino has been bringing buildings to life with his meticulously hand-drawn project designs. A new exhibition of Costantino’s work is ...

The history of pencils dates back to the discovery of graphite in the 16th century. In 1564, a large deposit of graphite was found in Borrowdale, England, where people initially used it to mark sheep ...

The first Friday in January was an especially frigid, dark and icy one in Anchorage. But those who made it to the new exhibit at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art were treated to a skilled ...