It’s a complaint many an art teacher is all too familiar with. Perhaps you had the same thought upon discovering that our topic this month is astronomical sketching. Sketching at the eyepiece isn’t as ...

Perhaps we’re biased, but there’s a unique beauty to drawing pencils that isn’t matched by your everyday writing pencil. Usually painted in a pleasing color and embossed with their name and grade, ...

Pencil is a very realistic sketching program and good 2D animation tool for the cost (free). Think of Pencil (free) as an animator’s digital sketchbook. It’s 2D; you can sketch things very well, then ...