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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 glass using coloured Prismacolor Premier pencils
Veronica uses Prismacolor Premier pencils to draw glass bottles of different shapes and sizes.
Improve your drawing skills with Mark Beaven
Mark Beaven shows how to choose the right drawing equipment and gives tips on drawing techniques and on achieving accuracy in your drawing.
How to draw a dog in coloured pencil with Susie Hodge
Follow Susie Hodge's step-by-step demonstration to draw a dog using coloured pencils.
How to draw fruit with coloured pencils
Bob Ebden demonstrates coloured pencil techniques using a variety of tools, and offers a simple step-by-step demonstration of how to use a blender in this drawing of plums.
How to draw a still life of apples in a bowl
Before you start painting Tim Fisher suggests some useful tips to help you build confidence with this simple pencil drawing of apples in a bowl.
Use watercolour and coloured pencils to paint a Granny Smith apple
Janie Gildow shows how to paint an apple that glows using an under-painting of watercolour and adding coloured pencil, in this extract taken from her new book 'Coloured Pencil Explorations'