Try experimenting with different colours of ballpoint pen to create layers of texture. Light-coloured felt tips can easily pick up darker colours from a drawing surface. This can be avoided by ...

Have you or your students struggled to create portraits or self-portrait drawings? We get it ... lines and details with a sharp pencil or ballpoint pen. Only do outlines of important features.

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

You've probably doodled with one of these in class: a blue Bic pen ... to three techniques. Hatching, crosshatching, and scribbling. Hatching is a common artists' technique used in drawing ...