Perhaps we’re biased, but there’s a unique beauty to drawing pencils that isn’t matched by your everyday writing pencil. Usually painted in a pleasing color and embossed with their name and grade, ...

Some coloured pencils are water soluble - water can be brushed over them to blend colours. Water-soluble pencils are usually softer than ordinary coloured pencils and will go blunt more quickly.

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 ...

For simplicity, I tend to use a #2 graphite pencil for most of my deep-sky drawings. After all, a pencil and paper are all that’s really needed to record an observation. Is a minimalist approach the ...