For artists, students, kids, and even just everyday doodlers, colored pencils are an essential desktop item. Having spent seven years of my life studying the pencil as an object and selling it to ...

Colored pencils and guitars aren’t often mentioned in the same sentence, and with good reason: very few people on earth set out to master both. You can be a pencil person or a guitar person, but rare ...

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use colored pencils like a pro. Learn how to blend and layer for beautiful, realistic ...

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 ...

David Rees thinks he knows how to sharpen pencils. He says people have entrusted 1,500 pencil points to his sharpening business. I know a little something about working with sharp pencils, and let me ...

A few months ago, I had my eyebrows done on the fly at an after-work beauty event—and they looked the best they'd ever looked. When I asked the aesthetician-slash-makeup-artist what she used to color ...