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Sunflower Seedhead Using Shade and Tone Mixed Media Set by Jill Winch

The Shade and Tone Mixed Media Set is another wonderful product from Derwent. The colours are a mix of Inktense, Graphitint,[…]

Is it possible to create a drawing using no more than the set of 24 Derwent Lightfast pencils? This was[…]

“I like your watercolours”, someone tweeted when I posted some of my Scotland sketches on my Twitter feed. “Er …[…]

The New Year is upon us and it’s time to tackle those New Year’s resolutions that you actually intend sticking[…]

First off, a few basics on the Drawing Pencils range: they are wax-based pencils, with a creamy texture and have 5mm[…]

I began in the early days using oils for portraits and animals commissions, as I felt that I could almost[…]

Drawing the human form is challenging and can be very frustrating. Yet it can be exhilarating and sublimely satisfying. The[…]

Having worked closely with Derwent on the development of the XL Graphite range, we thought we’d interview Ian for our[…]

We asked Nicolien Beerens to tell us more about miniature portraiture and how she started creating small scale drawings. In[…]

Graham Bradshaw returns with some more fantastic tips for drawing in graphite. Rendering These days pencil artists are using techniques[…]