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!
Develop your drawing skills with Trudy Friend
Find out how a variety of different marks can bring your drawings to life.
Learn basic drawing techniques for landscapes
Learn how to use your pencils to draw, shade and tone with Liz Marsden-King and Dave Pilgram.
How to paint hair
Learn how to paint hair in different media with Ann Witheridge as she shares her top tips.
How to draw a cat step-by-step
Rosalind shows us how to draw a cat using coloured pencils, in this step-by-step tutorial
A simple guide to drawing a Polar Bear with Jonathan Newey
Jonathan Newey demonstrates how to draw a Polar Bear
A simple guide to drawing a snowy Reindeer with Jonathan Newey
Jonathan Newey demonstrates how to draw a snowy Reindeer