Pencil
Sharpen Your Skills with Painters Online Pencil Tips & Techniques – your ultimate guide to mastering pencil sketching and drawing. Explore in-depth articles on shading, line work, texture creation, tonal values, composition, blending methods, and more—from realistic portraiture to expressive landscapes. Whether you’re a beginner sketcher or an experienced artist, find step-by-step tutorials, expert advice, tool comparisons, and creative prompts to enhance your graphite and coloured pencil work. Start refining your pencil art today!
How to - quick sketching techniques
For those who just want to pack a sketchbook and pen, Steve Strode demonstrates rapid sketching techniques for the artist on the move.
Drawing: Let's get started!
Helen Carter begins with a look at the materials and tools you’ll need to begin your journey with coloured pencils and drawing.
How to apply & mix pencil colours
With your materials to hand, learn basic techniques and colour mixing with Helen Carter
How to draw a cat in coloured pencil
John Stansfield shows how to draw a portrait of Poppy the cat using a variety of coloured pencil techniques.
Learn how to draw
Learn how to draw one line at a time with Claudia Myatt.
How to paint a Corgi
Follow Glennis Weston to paint a Corgi using watercolour and watercolour pencils