Water-soluble pencils tend to be softer than ordinary coloured pencils. Charcoal is a fast and responsive drawing media. It gives both soft and strong lines depending on how it is used.

Student-grade colored pencils and professional-grade ones vary drastically not only in their price but how they're made. A set of 120 Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils costs $350, 14 times as much ...

The illustration, drawn with colored pencils, was by a young artist named Keito who lives in Osaka Prefecture. The 21-year-old has been posting three-dimensional, photorealistic drawings of the ...