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!
How to draw fur with coloured pencils
Gayle Mason covers the techniques and materials needed for drawing animals in coloured pencil. Gayle shows how to draw fur step-by-step.
Use Derwent Inktense Blocks to paint a red panda
Angela Gaughan experiments with the popular Inktense range, and paints a red panda step-by-step.
Tips for drawing freehand - how to draw a giraffe
Lucy Swinburne introduces a project challenging readers to try drawing a giraffe freehand from a photograph.
Line and Tonal Pencil Drawing for Botanical Observations
Julia Trickey stresses the need to develop observational skills in this botanical drawing demonstration
How to Draw and Paint a Pelargonium in Watercolour
Michael Lakin shows how to paint a botanically accurate watercolour of a beautiful pelargonium.
Sketching at the beach with coloured pencils
Lynette Farley captures a morning at the beach at Dungeness with a sketchbook and coloured pencils.