For years, design software programmers have dreamed of ways to give digital design that pen-to-paper feel. But the latest way to sketch inside Adobe Illustrator uses an actual pen to paper. The ...

Georg Petschnigg throws his hands into the air as he traces the ages of human evolution that led us to develop the fragile wrists we need to use tools. Petschnigg locks his wrist into place and ...

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, "Belphagore" (1734), brush and black ink, gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on blue paper; 12 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (image via public domain, all images courtesy Getty ...

The medium is our art critic’s favorite — and this is a rich moment to indulge in works on paper, from the Drawing Center to the weeklong Master Drawings New York. By Roberta Smith Drawing is really ...

Paper-cutting artist Nancy Shelly works with a No. 11 X-Acto knife, and sometimes she needs to attach a new blade to fashion exquisitely intricate details in a picture after the blade’s tip breaks off ...

As with my favorite pens, my list of favorite paper is entirely subjective. The quality of the products, however, is not. I ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. In 2012, the Yale School of Architecture held a conference on the topic of drawing. It posed a couple of provocative questions: Was the study and ...

Mark making describes the different lines, dots, marks, patterns and textures created in a drawing. It can apply to any drawing materials. It can be loose and expressive or controlled and neat. The ...