Pencil

Sharpen Your Skills with Painters Online Pencil Tips & Techniques – your ultimate guide to mastering pencil sketching and drawing. Explore in-depth articles on shading, line work, texture creation, tonal values, composition, blending methods, and more—from realistic portraiture to expressive landscapes. Whether you’re a beginner sketcher or an experienced artist, find step-by-step tutorials, expert advice, tool comparisons, and creative prompts to enhance your graphite and coloured pencil work. Start refining your pencil art today!

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How to paint a Corgi

Follow Glennis Weston to paint a Corgi using watercolour and watercolour pencils

How to draw animals

Learn how to draw a kitten and other animals using pen and ink

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How draw and paint animals

How to achieve realistic texture and when drawing and painting animal hair and fur

How to draw a sheep on black paper

An easy-to-follow demonstration to introduce you to the joys of drawing with soft pencil on black paper by Fiona Peart

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How to improve your figure drawing with Ruth Buchanan

Try a scribble approach to improve your figure drawing

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How to draw a dog using Inktense Pencils

Angela Gaughan shows how to use Inktense pencils to paint a border collie, tired out after a game on the beach.

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