"Crosshatching with pen is a technique used in drawing to create depth and texture ... artists can produce shading effects and intricate patterns, enhancing the visual interest of their work.

Try experimenting with different colours of ballpoint pen to create layers of texture. Light-coloured felt tips can easily pick up darker colours from a drawing surface. This can be avoided by ...

It is made up entirely of lines, with no shading or tones ... at what you are drawing. Consider form, shape, proportion, space and detail without taking your pen off the paper.

Over the decades, a lot of attempts have been made to try and make pens and pencils “smart”. Whether it’s to enable a pen to also digitally record what we’re writing down on paper, to ...

They were inspired by classic picture-drawing automatons ... An ordinary ballpoint pen is held in a spring-loaded carrier, which provides just enough pen-to-paper pressure to reliably draw ...