Lines in drawing are made in several ways. The smallest lines are made by means of the medium (pencil, crayon, pen, or brush), held so as to be controlled principally by the fingers, wrist, elbow, or even by the arm at the shoulder socket. In a s...

A point about tone and color in black and white drawing. If everything were whitewashed in nature we could draw the tone that light makes when it falls on objects quite easily. However, the things around us are not painted white. They are mult...

I was talking to some other people who draw last week (none of us really likes the term "artist") and we uncovered a funny secret stigma about erasers. A few of these folks thought that just having an eraser around when you were sketching meant...