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Back in my elementary school art class, my friends and I would scramble for the best colored pencils in the bin of jumbled-up brands—Crayola mixed with Prismacolor mixed with no-name pencils ...

The pencil helped bring out the inchoate desire to express myself through words when I began to put down sophomoric scribblings on unused notebooks. I also did a lot of drawings with a pencil.

Art shouldn’t just be done for commercial reasons – make sure that you take time to draw for fun and practice. For example, I like to create birthday cards for my friends sometimes. 05.

Drawing is an an easy hobby that you can take with you anywhere in the world. Around the Kansas City metro, these sketch and painting clubs meet at cafes, museums, parks, and galleries to get the ...

Moving portraits of his mother. Coloured pencil etchings of his coolly beautiful friend Celie Birtwell. A peppy sketch of a cosily cardiganed Harry Styles. David Hockney’s life in drawing makes ...