DreamWorks animator Jamaal Bradley has been a long-time aficionado of pencil tests, and his website Pencil Test Depot has evolved into the place for collecting and sharing pencil tests. Encompassing ...

If you are an animation lover and want to get started with something very simple, then this animation application called Pencil is for you. Animation is now a fairly simple and standardized task with ...

In a recent interview with the New York Public Library, Amy Kurzweil described her cartoons as studies in “erudite silliness.” Well, Kurzweil is certainly erudite—just check out those pencil-nub ...

The lowly pencil is not an elite or showy artistic medium. It doesn't have oil paint's gravitas, or plaster's endearing gauche. Instead, the pencil is accessible, plebeian and utilitarian. If put in ...

Whether drawing realistic or abstract subjects, an understanding of tone, the variations of light and shade, is important. A variety of pencils are required to create a tonal study. The B range is ...

Yesterday at Pixar, some of the studio’s employees got to test-drive the new Apple Pencil, an optional stylus that will be available to purchase with the new 12.9″-screen iPad Pro tablet, shipping in ...